Sean Myers

A lot of winnable games.

And Calgary, I believe, just traded one of their best players.

He goes to Vegas.

They are clearly in next-season mode at this point.

They've always been very aggressive in terms of trades, too.

Absolutely.

That Eichel blockbuster that he made a handful of years ago.

Well, first off, I don't think they will pick up or should pick up the option.

I don't know that that necessarily means that they think Dylan Cook's a long-term answer.

But you can kind of wait and see, right?

I mean, if Jones comes back, is healthy, and has a good year, you can still keep him.

It's just you would have to offer him a new contract or franchise, in which I don't know if that's much of a possibility.

So I don't want to commit now to a guy that hasn't really proven to be a guy that

deserves to be committed to and as far as cook limited sample size i think was pretty solid but again i would not at this point say that you have to believe in cook if you're gonna reject the the fifth year option for broderick jones yeah both could be questions i remember it's a good insurance policy if if they both end up playing well uh bud dupree went through that process you remember one of the few guys who got two franchise tags by the steelers

I agree with him that there's a lot of people out there who believe that, right or wrong.

Now, are you ever going to convince those people otherwise, no matter what?

I mean, you could sever all ties with gambling, and the NFL is still going to have people questioning.

if it's predetermined, if it's a scripted, you know, whatever.

I don't think you're going to completely change people's minds, but there's no doubt that there's a lot of people who are questioning why things are happening, probably more now than ever.

I could tell you Major League Baseball's gambling issues have not probably helped all the professional sports when we saw what happened with the Guardians.