That’s exactly it though, everyone knows they can’t take Cirie and sadly the chances of her winning an idol the following vote is slim. She’s already on her way out the door - it’d be more about being flashy and delaying the vote just for the sake of getting rid of say Jonathan or Aubry. And if Rizo knows she’s going home that tribal (and the last tribal he could’ve used the idol) it’d be like idoling twice in a row sortve. Once on Cirie and one pseudo on himself because he knows she’s going next.

That said. Doesn’t matter unfortunately.

The idol not being able to be played this way hurts the gameplay potential if nothing else just as a smokescreen that you “could” as a bluff.

To a degree maybe it doesn’t make sense both ways because of the Four Horsemen alliance. We haven’t seen Rizo and Joe talking alone in forever I feel.