JLD was going to start no matter what - the question was where. It came down to Heder and Tautu, and I thought it was a bit of a surprise that the choice was Tautu.
You can't make a dig about paying attention and then get condescending or offended when it comes back at you. You can cherry-pick old quotes and use them to claim that you saw it coming all along, but that's really just a combination of luck and disingenuity. There is a ton of information to be interpreted out there.