JP Finlay looks at the bigger picture and notes that if this was the best haul Adam Peters could get, the market wasn't there for Dotson.
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00:00I do not think they did well in the Dotson trade.
00:05Maybe if he balled out for them,
00:06they could get more in a Dotson trade.
00:08If he didn't ball out, they'd probably get less
00:11and they didn't get very much.
00:12I am a believer in market economics.
00:15And I don't think Adam Peters only called Philly
00:19about trading Dotson.
00:21I'm guessing he called lots of places
00:23to see what there was out there.
00:25And there wasn't that much out there.
00:27That's, to me, pretty obvious.
00:30To others, it might not be.
00:32I think Dotson can play.
00:33I do not, however, understand Jimmy Lee Patterson.
00:38And I wish Jeff was here
00:39because he knows the folks in the chat
00:40if they're crazy or trolls or whatever.
00:44I don't know that this dude is or isn't.
00:45Maybe he just thinks he knows me.
00:48But Jimmy Lee Patterson accused me of playing water boy
00:51for the organization
00:52because I'm downplaying Dotson's rookie year.
00:55Jimmy, here's what I can tell you.
00:56I said on television, radio, and podcast
00:59that Dotson was really good as a rookie.
01:01He had seven touchdowns on 35 catches.
01:03He was in an offense, Scott Turner's offense,
01:07that designed ways to get him off the line of scrimmage.
01:11They designed ways for him to get off the line of scrimmage
01:15without a big bump or a jam or a press.
01:18And then once he got into space, he was really good.
01:21In Eric Biennumi's offense, that largely dried up
01:23and a lot of Dotson's red zone prowess dried up.
01:28Not to mention, all of a sudden last year,
01:30he was dropping passes that I never would have expected
01:32when he came out of college
01:34because he was graded as arguably the best hands catcher
01:36in that draft class.
01:39I am in no way downplaying Dotson's showed serious flashes
01:43of being a stud wideout.
01:46And maybe he'll get back to it,
01:47but it doesn't matter
01:48because Adam Peters and Dan Quinn didn't want him here.
01:51You can't look at the events of the last 24 hours
01:53and come to any other conclusion
01:55that the staff now did not want him.