Brennan's line — "I'm willing to risk it a little bit, but when I get some people who are happy to fall off for the risk of the win, I'm not super comfortable with that" — draws a line between acceptable danger and something closer to recklessness. Stage 8 had four separate mass crashes, including the one that ended Pogačar's race with 33km left, triggered by a large rock at the roadside rather than any rider's move. That detail cuts against Brennan's target: the day's worst crash was infrastructure, not aggression, yet his complaint is squarely about how riders behave in the bunch, not the roads they're given.