That doesn't seem like a tough call. Closer is both more important and less costly than Tucker. But, for all the other teams trying to compete, I hope they go for Tucker.

Decade 2 is when things start to gel, typically

I'm sure they will all be looking out for the bottom 50 percent.

Reasonable framing...

So overdue it's laughable

Yeah,not sure there is any upside to waiting for his retirement in a year. Let someone else take a swing.

Don't think anyone at 1600 Pennsylvania is raising their hands to check the math...

And the financial cost is just the tip of the iceberg relative to societal costs, emotional pain, fear in communities, erosion of rule of law, threat to democracy, etc