Maybe you misinterpreted this non verbal communication? After all, r Gorelick stayed at YU for 40 years until his petirah, l believe. Or maybe he believed in daas Torah and followed r Soloveitchik shita despite his own changed opinion.
Anyway, here is an example of apparently a rov you respect showing respect to the rov you don’t respect but this logical contradiction is not registering somehow. Go slain your rebbe who taught you boolean Algebra.