I feel historically, it has not been the Iron Chif’s style to be plonking meta stuff front and centre. It may be all garnishy, but not the main game.
Now admittedly, this is only episode one after the pilot, so Keyboard Stadium battles have a much shorter history. But my suspicion is that doing something as radical as CMG was speculating about based on what Ryan shared would not be what I might describe as “moving to win”. And I do suspect the Iron Chif wants to win the battle.
-Wade