The Colts are always my fallback team when the Bengals falter (which is often). Peyton Manning is just fun to watch conduct an offense. Too bad they rarely have a defense.
Moss has 5 touchdowns and a hair over 300 yards through eight games, and yet has been traded and cut. Getting that kind of production from a third receiver would instantly boost any team into the top 5 offenses in the league.
DeAngelo Hall didn’t play for three teams in the same season, but he was traded by the Falcons to the Raiders in the 2008 offseason, cut after 8 games, and played the remaining 8 for the 'Skins.
Interestingly, this is Hall’s eighth season, and he’s just 26 (he’ll be 27 in two weeks).
The trade deadline is well past.
Of course, at this point they pretty much have to cut Moss as he is not going to play for them now.
I could see him going to the Rams. They have a QB already making a silk ppurse out of a sow’s ear of a receiving corps. He would come in as an undisputed #1 receiver in the corps and would still have Gibson and Amendola doing well enough without him that he would not draw more than double coverage in games. He would give the Rams the deep threat that they need to push that passing game to a new level and having that threat takes some heat of Jackson and the running game, allowing him to heal up some.
Well, his presence didn’t exactly boost the Minnesota Vikings’ offense into elite status. If he wasn’t happy there, why would he be any happier playing for the Bills, or any other down-and-out team? An unhappy Randy Moss is likely to be a cancer on any organization he joins.
His presence did boost the MIN offense and took heat off of Harvin which just underscores how baaaaaad the coaching is there. For the most part, other than it was not the best way to air his complaints, Randy was spot on in identifying the problems that Minnesota had in why they lost the game. Nothing will improve that team until they get a coaching staff change. Chilly could not even handle waiving Moss without screwing it up and making the MIN front office look like a circus.
For what it’s worth, the Vikings are due to get Sidney Rice back in a couple of weeks, so the loss of Moss can be replaced if they just get through this next game at home against the Cards.
Maybe, but the other bad teams that will have first crack at Moss are also, well, bad. Whether it’s for management, coaching, personnel or other reasons, none of them are going anywhere, and it’s hard to imagine Moss being happy in those situations. Maybe with the Cowboys, because he would get lots of national exposure, win or lose. Otherwise, short of ending up back with the Patriots, I think he’s just as likely to act out as he is to help out.
And I’m not sure a team with a losing record is going to simply rent Moss for the rest of the year. And his tirades make it hard to give him a long term contract.
Maybe a team still in the playoff hunt who needs WR help would be willing to use him for a year. I’m looking at you Rams.
His presence coincided with Brett Favre breaking his ankle, and he didn’t even have time to learn the whole playbook before being waived.
In any event, the Vikings averaged 15.7 PPG in three games without Moss, and 21.5 in four games with him (against better defenses).
He did open things up for Percy Harvin and Adrian Peterson.
Hey, if he goes to Buffalo, he gets to play New England again. He seems to like them.
It would be funny if he just kept bouncing around, week after week, to whatever team was playing New England that sunday.
Perhaps not surprising, but it turns out that Moss is a rude, arrogant asshole.
Awfully high and mighty behavior for someone who hails from West Virginia.
Officially waived.
It will be interesting to see if anyone really sees him as worth picking up off waivers rather then waiting to get him as a FA. I think there will be someone who does.
I’d say there’s an 80+% chance someone picks him off of waivers.
I say there’s a 100% chance. You really think all 31 other teams will pass on picking up Randy Moss with no long term commitment and no cost to them?
Excpt that 3 million dollar price tag.
Or wait for him to clear, sign him for less and stick MIN with the bill. Either way, you know he will be a productive cancer so you may as well get hi cheaper and let MIN pay him a bundle to play for you.
There’s no salary cap, and NFL owners all have 3 mil to burn. Someone will take him. No doubt Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones are seriously considering it.