Ryan Smith

No, I mean, look, this was all pretty new to me, right?

I mean, my first day, we were kind of in the middle of the COVID and we had like two days to like sign Don and Rudy or 30 days.

It was that short window.

If you remember, I remember having two days before Monday before we got to kind of go into it with Rudy.

And I remember going up to his hotel room and being like, hey, bro, like, what do you care about?

And actually, that was like my first meeting ever.

It was just him and I talking because we knew each other before.

there was a process in going and sitting down with Don and going through all that.

I think you almost... From what I'm learning about these championship runs, it's a little bit like you almost don't know what you need until you get on the track.

And it's like this, I got to have a little more than the other team.

So it's a little bit of a moving target.

So...

running its course of a team, you'll see that this year, whatever will happen, the narrative will be around a couple teams that get bounced out.

They just don't have enough.

And they've got to bring more than the next group.

The hard part is when you're already asset down.

And you're over the cap, like we were.

We were into the tax.

We'd given up a lot of picks for Conley.

And so it's like, how deep do you want to cut into your future?