Are you sure it's just him? There has to be a reason he kept 9E off the Saabs. Certainly, proposing a STAPLE as the final method did not put us in good light in front of Bloch. The failure here was the 9E committee for proposing something so far in the outfield, and then not taking advantage of the news of further Saab turboprop reductions, because the closing argument (hearings) window had already closed, while Mesaba took advantage of the situation by using the DOH issue AFTER the hearings closed. One group had the guts, the other didn't.