Is Rutherford bluffing?

So it seems obvious to most of us that if they trade one of our centres it should be Miller. But if our posture is that we are in the market to sell Miller only, that gives other teams the leverage, because then it appears that Miller is the problem in the room, for sure. But if we say that there's a JT-Petey feud and that we are selling both, then other teams can't for sure confirm who the problem is, what the nature of the problem is, and maybe it helps move Miller more prudently? Just trying to read the tea leaves. Historically JR doesn't talk to the media without knowing how it is going to play, so Occam's Razor says that this is a calculation he's making by saying this rather than "losing his temper".