I’m rewatching the press conference. Brian is very nervous at the start, chugging water. Lots of double speak and insistence that they’ve been looking at a doing a move like this since the offseason. I think that’s a questionable truth but who knows.
This last game clearly put some serious pressure on them to make the move now.
He mentioned Pet would be involved in all facets but mentioned the front 7 specifically, which I think is an important note, because the rest of the press conference he was dancing around the questions and looking down at the table and not saying anything of value except soft language so as not to throw Parker under the bus I guess.