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Friday Fun Thread for April 25, 2025

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Congrats, I was wondering who would be so important that they'd trade up one place to take them, but Tzeentchian influence makes more sense than anything else!

Howie just can't help himself. He does rt every year, moving from 10 to 9 to get Jalen Carter, and moving up a couple spots to get Kelee Ringo, moving up to get Coop last year. Other front offices were saying anonymously that they just blocked the entire 215 area code on draft night because they weren't going to take any calls from Philadelphia, for fear of "losing" the trade. It's telling that the trade was with KC, arguably the front office with the most security right now outside of Howie.

Howie is a hero right now, but he also has a lot of trades that sort of seem pointless, or trades he arguably lost (Jahan Dotson last year, though you probably don't worry about it after he got three big playoff catches in a championship run). Dude just loves making obscure complicated trades.

Did the fan base feel Dotson was a pointless addition?

I felt they needed to get a quality WR3 even without the stats.

There are three different views of the trade that you see among Eagles fans:

-- The Dotson trade was bad because Dotson didn't put up any numbers and disappeared for long periods of the regular season, even when he was WR1 or WR2 with Smith and Brown injured. Simple as.

-- The Dotson trade was bad because Jalen Hurts never throws to receivers not named Smith or Brown, so putting resources into a WR3 will never pay off. Dotson was never going to put up any numbers to justify the cost so the trade was a bad idea from the start. The Eagles might think they need to go get a WR3, but it's never

-- The Dotson trade was Good, because Dotson had a couple huge receptions in the playoffs, he blocked hard on runs, he had a couple huge picks on big catches by other receivers; and ultimately you don't think about the value of that third round pick ever again after you win a super bowl.

I did think that Dotson had more upside potential than Zacchaeus, as much as I liked the latter, but it's hard to say that the trade paid off when looking at Dotson's stat line. Regardless, I have to agree that it's hard to care too much about Dotson's production or those future picks given that we could just feed Saquon the rock and reap the rewards for game after game. Never thought I'd get to see good old-fashioned NFC East smash mouth football win a ring in today's modern game.

I suppose it's good to have someone trading across all situations to see more about market prices. Kind of like all the silly lawsuits from history that become important case law today.

The problem for a market-maker in the NFL is that there are very few participants, most are in some degree of professional precarity, and all moves are publicly noted and debated. So very quickly you see situations where teams refuse to take Howie's calls, like Billy Beane in the NFL before him, because they don't want to be the next fool in the Howie mythos.

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