[over the mountain]

Yeah, i highly doubt blache wants anything more than to just go back into retirement and use that shotgun of his inscribed by the DS.

with that being said, joe gibbs pushed for greg blache and is probably in the DS's eyes a faction of joe gibbs whom he honestly does seem to look up to.

and im sure the DS took greg and his wife to nice dinners, probably over to the DS mansion in potomac and other courtship niceties in hopes to bring him on board.

so of course to greg the DS is a nice, generous man. the DS respects and honors greg blache b/c he is a figment of joe gibbs whom he idolizes.

imo the DS had to win over greg blache. and he does that by being the nicest most humble billionaire greg balche (or any other target of the DS) has ever met.

unlike jim zorn, whose honeymoon of being treated with respect and humility is over, greg blache gets an unlimited amount of the "nicest most humble billionaire" persona of the DS b/c of his ties to joe gibbs. (edit - and he's doing a decent job of bend dont break defense).