Moss has to clear waivers. The team with the worst record will almost certainly make a claim on him. I suspect that puts him in Buffalo or perhaps Carolina if the Bills decide to do something crazy. Can you imagine him and Steve Smith together?
He is owed $3 million for the rest of the year. Why would any team, especially those that aren’t competing for anything but draft position want him?
By a fair margin. That’s why I wouldn’t mind if it the Vikings took Locker.
You all saw this “interview” he gave after yesterdays game? Right? Here’s the transcript. I suppose that went a long ways to ensuring the result. Moss is a pain in the ass apparently, but I kinda feel like he’s getting screwed this season. Compared to most of the diva head cases on the NFL Moss might be the most innocuous, I think he maybe gets a bad wrap.
I’m rooting for Philly to get him somehow. Vick to Moss would be the awesomest shit ever.
Was just listening to a podcast on ESPN.com (seemed to have been a snippet from ESPN Radio). One of their analysts suggested that the Rams (at 4-4, IIRC) might be interested. Bradford’s doing very well at QB, but their top three WRs are all injured. As weak as the NFC West is again, the Rams are certainly contenders, and they might view it as a worthwhile risk.
True, but I think at $3M he’s still a bargain. Teams like the Bills and Panthers need to sell tickets and avoid blackouts. Plus they get a chance to make a pitch to him in person and try and entice him to extend his deal for next season. If I’m the Panthers I leap at the chance and try and convince him to stick around and give the Steve Smith - Randy Moss combo a real shot.
Anyone think Carolina will draft Luck even though they already have Claussen or is it going to be a Rex Grossman type situation?
St Louis would be interesting. The Redskins are also 4-4 and I haven’t seen what the Waiver order is in regards to tie breakers but there’s no way he gets past Washington.
ETA: Schefter is speculating that the Cowboys might be in the mix, that makes no sense to me with the WRs they already have but with Jerry Jones you never know.
Strangely there are only 11 teams with a record worse than 4-4 and damn near all of them have a very good WR and probably wouldn’t be a fit aside from Carolina.
I was going to say Washington. They have no size at WR. A Moss/Moss combo might be interesting.
I think the biggest rap on Moss is that he can’t be counted on to give 100% if he doesn’t feel like it. It’s what got him out of Oakland, and many feel he’s been doing the same thing the past few weeks (the 4th down play in the back of the end zone in Green Bay, the pass-interference play yesterday, when he probably could have made it into a TD catch if he’d kept running).
From Minneapolis Star Tribune:
"Despite being limited, Harvin had a huge performance with six catches for 104 yards. Afterward, he questioned his team’s lack of adjustments in the second half.
"In the second half they made a couple of adjustments, and I think we played into their hands," he said. "They were ready for a couple of our plays there in the second half. We didn't do a good job of making adjustments. That's why [Patriots coach Bill] Belichick is as good as he is. He makes those adjustments. They were able to pull it out."
Asked why the Vikings had problems doing that, Harvin smiled and paused for a few seconds. "It's a team effort," he said. "It's all of us, got to put a little more effort. It's little things."
I think Chilly feels the need to get control of his locker room. Waiving Moss for his comments is likely the easier choice than demoting Favre or dumping Harvin.
Moss to Tampa!
The real question is what this does to Percy Harvin’s value. He was doing rather well with Moss drawing double coverage.
Let’s hold off on the Luck/Locker conversation. Including yesterday, Tarvaris Jackson has 22 touchdowns and 18 interceptions, and really deserves at least a year to prove himself.
Between this and the Favre issue it seems like Chilly is getting perilously close to getting himself shitcanned mid-season. I suspect the Vikes would be better off with Leslie Frazier running the show going forward.
Couldn’t hurt. Dungy assistants have a pretty impressive track record of taking their teams to Super Bowls when they get HC jobs.
Childress got that extension through 2013. He’s not going anywhere.
Then again, if the Vikings are willing to waste a 3rd rounder…
I guess what I’m saying is that the Vikings’ front office should be shitcanned.
Bucs extended Jon Gruden and promptly fired him the next season. It’s not unusual. I think Brian Billick got a 5 year extension the season prior to his dismissal.
Remember, if they get rehired as coaches, you can stop paying them- and Childress doesn’t seem the type to take a couple of years to spout platitudes on ESPN. Not only that, nobody in their right mind would pay him to do it anyway.
I just hope Chilly sticks around for the 2 remaining Bears games! Woo hoo!
How about the Bears. They’ve got no #1 WR, they have money to spend, and they’re high enough profile Moss might like it. Sure he’d have to get past a lot of teams to get to them, but would you want Moss on your team?
The problem for the Bears is that Cutler can’t spend time in the pocket to take advantage of a field-stretching reciever like Moss is supposed to be.
The Bears don’t really have the money to spend. They emptied the coffers pretty completely to get Peppers, Taylor and Manumaleuna, not to mention the Cutler extension midseason last year. So I’m pretty sure that’s not even a realistic consideration, regardless what Schefter says.
Moss would obviously be better than anything we have now and I suspect that he and Cutler would be a great match. However the Bears already have 2 top WRs who seem to be a poor fit for the Martz offense, or at least are struggling to be in the right place on every play, and Moss seems like the worst possible fit for a Martz offense. He needs WRs that are quick, run crisp reliable routes and are always on schedule. Moss doesn’t do any of that, he runs terrible routes, loafs when he’s not one of first couple reads and probably isn’t going to put in the time to understand the offense on short notice.
If the Bears had Mike Heimerdinger as an OC I’d be all for it, Moss’s ability to go deep and go get the ball would be great as would the attention he’d demand freeing up the underneath stuff for the shifty Hester and Bennett but not in this system.