Ryan Lemon

Now they're just going to, in my opinion, the only way you get out of it is Mark Pope's got to have a fundamental restructuring of how he goes into this stuff.

And somebody smarter than me is going to have to be the one to do it.

But until then...

I think the only way out is you're going to have to vastly overpay, which brings its own set of problems because next year they're going to go, well, you paid this dude.

So like, that's not a, but I don't think he has a choice.

I think they have got to go.

They wanted to keep a budget.

They didn't want to be.

Last year we became known as the $22 million team.

And as Kyle Tucker pointed out, they did nothing to dispel that.

Even though I don't think they spent that amount of money, I think they wanted people to think they spent that amount of money so that it looked like we were the gold standard.

But the problem is now we look like suckers because we didn't play well and we spent all this money and we're seen as money bags that you can then use to leverage to get to go where you really want to go.

And every time somebody picks somebody else over us, our brand decreases.

So we're like...

We're like a store where you actually have a pretty good quality of goods, but people just don't think you do because it's, well, that's, I don't know, Target or whatever.

I think that's what happens.

And that's a tough cycle.

And you know how you get out of that cycle?

Really good PR and we're not doing any PR.

And so we're just stuck in this spiral.