So they wanted to force companies to provide backdoors. Then they got a lot of push back from many different fronts - The EFF, security professionals, companies

So they wanted to force companies to provide backdoors. Then they got a lot of push back from many different fronts - The EFF, security professionals, companies and the general public and realized how unpopular their proposal was. Now they "just want to talk about it" so that the companies and security experts can come up with an idea "themselves" and it won't seem like the FBI is forcing it on anyone and that this idea is "coming from the industry". This has the added benefit that talking about it for a while and having it in the news will normalize the idea for the general public. Does that sound about right?