LAST EDITED ON 11-25-12 AT 02:59 AM (EST)I was listing him as a whacko. Not all whackos are bad at the game (see Jud "Fabio") just as not all villains are inevitable losers of the game (see Brian the Iceman, see Sandra mistress of the passive-aggressive strategy).
But for all that, I took aftergame Greg talk (S1) the same way I took aftergame Skupin talk (S2), I don't think either of them really could have won, they certainly weren't guaranteed winners had they made final.
Those things do speak, however, to a reality in the game of Survivor, that what is said and done in the game can affect the course things take, how jurists think, what decisions are most favorable in the game.
For example, hang out enough with Jeffkent and Artis to know how they think, like about "deserving" players and being real "competitors," well maybe when both of them are sitting on the jury it is smart to say a few things at TCs that they would take positively in your favor.