Okay so with this chapter, I don´t think I was being a schizo for saying Garp was trying to help Rayleigh out here
Because we now know that Garp hung out with Gaban at some point, and if he hung out with Gaban in Elbaf, he probably hung out with Rayleigh in Sabody at some point. He´s probably going to let them live their retirement. He even specifically goes out of his way to tell his subordinates to not report the info about Rayleigh to anyone else, especially Sengoku, who´s a hardliner. If he really thought Rayleigh was someone they should avoid for their own good, why can´t the marine, his subordinates and Sengoku know about him?
And again, the ¨You think the navy can handle two legends at once?¨ thing doesn´t make sense as framing, since he was regularly chasing after the Roger pirates, and the marines were supposed to deploy against the Roger pirates and Golden lion pirates during the Edd war anyway.