I’m hopeful Gus has something up his sleeve, but I can’t hate on the guy knowing some of the info, albeit maybe not 100% accurate, but pretty close. The Dragons have offered +$1.1M per season, they have a few more middles they could afford to lose in a trade, and you’d think we would need to match that offer in $.
So let’s say we pay that $1.1M, we also lose Preston.
While the Wahs free up +$1M, get Preston for say $450k and have another +$550k to go to market and sign another Middle. Wahs are in the box seat, they call the shots and Gus didn’t want to play that game.