I got that same impression initially when he returned to the NRL and he was saying all the right things in interviews, etc. but after a while, I realised he just liked the attention and was working hard to change public perception of himself. The cracks started appearing in those interviews. I recall him talking up his own running game and another bizarre comment where he refused to reveal some arbitrary detail that no one would even care about…it struck me then how important he thinks he is. Weird dude.