Is there any way things could have worked out between BacheloretteTayshia Adamsand eliminated contestantBlake Moynes?

Blake certainly thinks so but believesClare Crawleygot in the way.

As he explained toUs Weekly, Blake still had lingering feelings for Clare when Tayshia took over asBachelorette.

Blake Moynes smiling

That made it take longer to connect with her, but he did end up falling for her.

“The connection [I had with Tayshia] was very slow,” he said.

Blake thinks that things would have worked out in his favor if Clare had never been in the picture.

Tayshia and Blake on a date

And that was the most unfortunate."

“So, it was so fresh.

I felt like we made such a stride.

And it was, like, shut down.

But I still was hanging on to that day just because we blamed it on time.

I wish she just said, ‘You’re not The One for me.

There’s other connections here.

I don’t see us being a thing.’

Instead, it was like, ‘We ran out of time, the connection came too late.’

And so yeah, I got sent home.

And I was like, thinking about the what-ifs, the potential.”

As for the men who made it to Tayshia’s top four, Blake isn’t too optimistic.