Defenses for Moss Trade
Well to be fair, let's look at some possible reasons to make this trade, before me next post is false logic behind the Moss Trade.
1. Moss' Health will not hold up over the long run. Well this is the 1st time in his seven year career, he has missed games, because of his injury. But since the time he has been drafted, he has had a bothersome ankle, which really acted up in the Playoffs. Also, he had back problems towards the end of this season, and also last season if one remembers he got taken out of the game at Detroit. So if the Vikings, think he might start to break down within the next year or two, where he becomes a constant question mark think Steve Mcnair, then this trade could have been justified.
2. Moss' Work Ethic- No one will accuse Moss of working as hard as Cris Carter or Jerry Rice to stay in shape. At 28, his skills will probably start going downhill in the next two to three years. He probably wouldn't be able to stay dominant as long as a Marvin Harrison might, just due to the fact of his conditioning, and he's not a great route-runner. Think for a comparsion Isaac Bruce, who doesn't draw the attention now at 32, he did at 28. His stats were mostly from coverage drawn to Torry Holt.
3. Lockerroom-I have no doubts Randy Moss is a first-class jerk, even PA and Dubay have admitted as much. Those guys are a lot closer to his antics than he is. I believe a lot of people in the Lockerrom-are probably tired of presence. Although, I would have to be convinced for this to be a factor it was taking away from others on the field-performance.
These are possible rationals for the trade. My next post will be addressing Myths of the Randy Moss trade.
1. Moss' Health will not hold up over the long run. Well this is the 1st time in his seven year career, he has missed games, because of his injury. But since the time he has been drafted, he has had a bothersome ankle, which really acted up in the Playoffs. Also, he had back problems towards the end of this season, and also last season if one remembers he got taken out of the game at Detroit. So if the Vikings, think he might start to break down within the next year or two, where he becomes a constant question mark think Steve Mcnair, then this trade could have been justified.
2. Moss' Work Ethic- No one will accuse Moss of working as hard as Cris Carter or Jerry Rice to stay in shape. At 28, his skills will probably start going downhill in the next two to three years. He probably wouldn't be able to stay dominant as long as a Marvin Harrison might, just due to the fact of his conditioning, and he's not a great route-runner. Think for a comparsion Isaac Bruce, who doesn't draw the attention now at 32, he did at 28. His stats were mostly from coverage drawn to Torry Holt.
3. Lockerroom-I have no doubts Randy Moss is a first-class jerk, even PA and Dubay have admitted as much. Those guys are a lot closer to his antics than he is. I believe a lot of people in the Lockerrom-are probably tired of presence. Although, I would have to be convinced for this to be a factor it was taking away from others on the field-performance.
These are possible rationals for the trade. My next post will be addressing Myths of the Randy Moss trade.
posted by Stew at 8:40 PM
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