Thomas Drance

I think it's self-defeating.

I actually think it hints at like a deep-seated insecurity about your impact on an organization, like as an ownership group.

I think an ownership group needs to be willing to, especially given where this franchise has arrived,

how messy it's been constantly across like three distinct eras now for 15 years arguably four right because the end of the gillis era wasn't exactly no good process either and and i think i think gillis and company would say that too so there's been a lot of bad moves and

A lot of drama, a lot of just like silliness.

Yeah.

And, you know, I mean, this is what I'm talking about.

Like, I don't think this organization needs to be focused on rebuilding their roster.

I think they need to be refocused on building like first and foremost trust with this marketplace.

I think they need to rebuild their sense of themselves.

Well, the Boudreaux thing was, I mean...

The Boudreaux thing was such a disaster of process, right?

Yeah.

And honestly, in some ways, this era is like fruit of the poisonous tree stemming from just this organization's complete inability to manage the crisis that was the start of the 2021 season and the crisis in consumer confidence that gripped this team appropriately.

Like, you know, the Rutherford era.

I mean, you can even go into...

You don't even... Like, you can even go into, like, their draft stock in that 2022 entry draft class.

Right?

Being sort of part of it.

I mean, it looks very much like Travis Green and Rick Tockett are going to make the playoffs.