Actually, before the FO made the rounds on background with all the local reporters talking about how Biadasz could barely tie his shoes in this scheme and couldn’t be trusted to make the line calls or read the lunch menu anymore, the very first reports when all the local people were still confused by the move were that the main benefit they could see was that we’d be saving his millions of dollars in salary on the budget, if not on the cap.
Then the logic from the FO made the rounds and everyone stopped talking about that. But it was basically the only viable explanation until the idea that he couldn’t make the line calls went around. Now that truism is bandied about like it was always common knowledge and not a new problem people were made aware of, but it was.