Were you surprised by the trade request that you considered doing?

Yeah, I was real surprised.

I think John spoke a lot on that last week, I think, and I felt pretty much the same.

We were surprised, but also once it does happen, you know this business, so it can't surprise

you too much.

But yeah, we were disappointed a little bit, but it's part of this business.

And, I mean, you'll consider anything.

You have a responsibility to help your organization the most you can.

But losing a player like Debo, it's hard to see how that helps your organization.

So you try to look in all the aspects of it and what people are willing to do,

and nothing was even remotely close that we thought would be fair for us or fair for the miners.

Why not in the conversation with Debo yesterday in which you said that it doesn't look like we're

not going to trade you.

I'm not entertaining the offer.

No, yeah.

I haven't taught Deepa for a couple weeks.

I've not trained them yesterday and today.

It seems to indicate that you're confident you can work things out with them. Why are you confident you can work things out with Dibo? Just because I think we can't. Kind of hard to work things out if he won't pick up the phone. I have a feeling that the fact that Kyle Shanahan hasn't spoken with Dibo Samuel in a couple of weeks, isn't for lack of trying

to call him.

Yeah, I doubt that either. Later in that same press conference, Kyle Shanahan talked about how he prefers in season because the guys are there. Right. They can't avoid you. Right. They're there. You want to go talk to him. You walk up to him. Offseason, you call them. they hit the the FU button.

Yeah, especially when there's a contract.

Yeah, yeah.

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