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[DanSchwartzgan]

If they had the Hardy deal lined up, they could have traded the first down for a couple extra seconds, gotten their man and hade the seconds to get Rui at the tdl.

Sure.  I’m not defending the use of an asset to dump salaries that could have been cut.  Just pointing out that their logic might have been that the true cost of the dump was two seconds rather than #26 assuming they had good intel on where Hardy (or some other target they liked) might fall.