In some ways, you?re putting the cart before the horse.

I think you are putting the cart before the horse.

We're not going to put the cart before the horse. We'll nominate him to a lot of things between now and the end of the year, but our focus is getting him back into a routine and then a work schedule.

Landscape with Horse and Cart, Figures, and Ruins

It is the good horse that draws its own cart.

[Watson] is the horse who has been carrying their cart, ... And we're going to have to put our best guys on Redding. We want to try to shut those two down and try to make them run the football.