Randy Moss's rant or whatever you want to call it after week one is infamous. Now we learn that maybe right before that speech or right after he might have shot his agent an email or a quick text saying "trade me."
I feel betrayed. That rant left a bad taste in everyone's mouth, but really who wants to leave Tom Brady's side? Wouldn't Bill snap him back into the players we are used to dealing with? They both would lay down their life for this guy...
No one can argue, the timing of this latest news is impeccable. The Pats coming off a huge win against Miami where Randy didn't show up except for a missed once in a lifetime fake out spike/Tom Brady bomb into the endzone(Moss missed the catch). Against the Dolphins the rookies came up big - so did our running game without a real running back. It makes me think this may be rash trading Moss - like we are just racking up draft picks to get up more rookies we can mold. (Which reminds me after trading Laurence Maroney who are we rooting for to have the worst season ever so we get the best pick ever?)
Then again, Moss's Wikipedia page is littered with fights that cost him his seat at Notre Dame, a flippant remark about one of the saddest football tragedies ever (the Marshall Plane crash) and dating violence allegations. Now, I'm not saying our team - headed by a man with a pretty famous illegitimate son - never did anything like pretend to moon a crowd. But we love our Teddy Bruschi's and players with a chip on their shoulder that play like they are mad as hell.
I started this blog feeling melancholy, but its coming across like I've accepted it and moved on. It's for reasons like the numbers game. Now, I don't know if it's the media or Randy - but you just always seem to hear things like he's into *his*numbers. That is important yes and it's nice to put up big numbers, But if that's how he thinks, that's lame. He's playing fantasy football by himself while the rest of the players are playing like a team. Patrick Chung bats the kick down, Kyle Arrington picks it up and runs it back for a touch down - Chung doesn't do both.
You may win a big cash prize at the end of a fantasy football season, but a whole team wins the Lombardi Trophy. And Randy, if you want to try to work out a contract extension with a team that's really pushing for a Superbowl run this year because the same caliber of players won't be there next year. I give you my blessing and I wish you nothing but the best.
By week next week, but we're getting ready for the Ravens on 10/17
StaceyLynne Grande-Foster
Football is such a small sport, when Indy's former head coach, Tony Dungy was the Vikings defensive coordinator, he defended Moss's mooning incident. Hm.
PS did you hear, another hole we can exploit in the Colt's defense, Melvin Bullitt, Bob Sanders' replacement, will miss the rest of the season with a right shoulder injury.
Thanks to Michael Bonner for breaking the news to me.
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