This ability to completely ignore all the contradicting evidence is so stunning, so incredibly obtuse, that I almost have to admire it. He's Just Another Guy.
Well I certainly hope you’ll be able to hold yourself together.
Perhaps this can make it through your strong veil of needless condescension:
I don’t think Perry is some incredible talent the rest of the league has missed out on. My interest in him is as a guy who has experience with the team and who very possibly hasn’t reached the ceiling of his development at only the start of season two. It was understandable that there wasn’t a secure place for him not long ago. Now we’re down two starting WRs, and a couple of guys ahead of him here have underwhelmed in their own right. The current circumstances kind of make a big difference.
It wasn’t a surprise that no team put in a waiver claim, and especially over a weekend. It’s also not a surprise, to me, that the Saints were hoping to get him back, and that he instead found his way on to another team and with his former OC.
We have an unsettled WR group and anybody we bring in is going to either be “just another guy” or require expending an asset during a season that is very suddenly and decidedly circling the drain. I don’t love the latter scenario in the abstract, but maybe they find a good fit at a cheap price. I don’t think it’s the outlandish idea you do to consider if one of the possibilities is that the team will try and bring back a familiar player they had already expressed an interest in bringing back. Perry was ahead of guys we’ve now had to elevate, prior to his being waived.