He is either still sticking to a bad plan or an idiot. With the current situation it could be both. The Evero and the QB situations were self-inflicted and absolutely avoidable. Not using anything learned, or should have been learned, from last year and just doing it again creates a situation where it's looking impossible to avoid splashback in the current trajectory....again.
Any hand tying was part of what they signed up for upfront so I give zero excuses for that.