There's nothing dumb about backdooring Dani. As Jeff said, what if this is our only chance to get rid of her? She's wanted Jeff out since week 2.But Estee is right: production is riding Jeff hard to try to keep Dani in the game. Jeff told Jordan that production told him he should talk to Dani (followed immediately by the feed going off), that he made the same move last time and then a floater took him out (followed immediately by the feed going off), etc. -- but Jeff said he's taking her out no matter what production says (followed immediately by the feed going off). . . .
Gee, think they didn't want us to know how hard they'd been pushing Jeff to save Dani?
Jeff tells Jordan that he hasn't told Shelly yet that this is a definite plan to take Dani out. He wants to be sure that she doesn't vote to save Dani (even though her vote won't matter, as long as he has Adam's).
BTW, Jeff recognizes that Dani knows the game better than JeJo do.