We got freakin’ Randy Moss
April 30, 2007 News, Sports No Comments |
In a move consistent with their standard policy of being smarter than most other NFL teams when it comes to the draft, the Patriots picked up five-time Pro-Bowl wide receiver Randy Moss from the Oakland Raiders for, basically, nothing. Officially, Moss went for a 4th round pick, the 110th overall. Yet the Pats just traded their 2nd 1st-round pick (#28 overall) to the 49ers in exchange for a 1st-round pick next year and a fourth-round pick this year. So, in essence, Moss was acquired for nothing more than a deferral of 1st-round picks until next year, and a chance to get a much better 1st-round pick in the 2008 draft (from San Francisco).
Of course, there will be the talk of ‘character issues’ and the like, but the point is that, unlike Terrell Owens, a loud-mouthed yet talented idiot, Moss is a loud-mouthed yet talented rather intelligent man, who, like the smart kid in class, has been seriously bored for two years in the football wasteland of Oakland. And if there’s any team that doesn’t tolerate tomfoolery, and will have no qualms cutting a player if he becomes a problem, it’s New England. So, we got freakin’ Randy Moss.