That Garland is supposed to be good, he better be really really good. Anyway it's just getting away from a set of bad contracts to a single bad contract.
They continue to give out these 7-8yr contracts even now as almost single GM is navigating around the mistakes of his predecessor or his own fself. lol
Oh and welcome back 72o! Coming back with a vrandom Adam Larsson rant (w/quotes) is so you.