What did I say?

Without the support of the Jack Elrod Ball, Bob begins to cave in to the peer pressure of Stu and Phil. (It could be the hat, or it could be the awesome sideburns that both men seem to be sporting, though if I were Bob, I'd be worried that in the end those two would either exclude him or set him up for the cops because he doesn't share in their facial hair brotherhood.) As it seems more and more likely that Bob will decide to join Stu and Phil in this nefarious deed, the Jack Elrod Ball bounces into action. Knowing that at this point it would be useless to try to convince Bob to turn away from the idea of poaching, and because Mark would get really mad if it hurt some more people, the Jack Elrod Ball takes matters into its own hands (or orb, or whatever) and begins herding the alligators in the area away from the three men just in case they decide to get a little practice in before they fully implement their plan. Bob, meanwhile, never quite agrees to join Stu and Phil, but instead tells them that he'll talk to Mary about it. To me, it just sounds like he's trying to use Mary as an excuse not to go through with the poaching plan, sort of like how you'd say that you needed to ask your mom before you did something only because you knew that she'd never let you and you could just blame her that you couldn't when you didn't even really want to do it in the first place. He'd just better hope that Mary didn't have a bad experience with an alligator in the past and has been gunning for them ever since.