Tages: Terrell owens, braylon edwards, antonio cromartie - If a history of professional football ran a road trip is better than Randy Moss, the order in which this receptor is lost secrets of light in a dusty time somewhere in the NFL Films.
In addition to football fans outside the family Sabol seen, however, has never been another like Randy Moss in the gene-Rand, West Virginia. When Moss was motivated and committed - for more information about these warnings and complications at the time - not in a corner, which, unfortunately, explodes in Dallas, Kevin Mathis, who has destroyed his three performances Thanksgiving transcendent Moss touchdown for rookie receiver the electrification of 98, or the entire Darrelle Revis, whose hamstring victim of racial crosses Week 2, Moss from last season, could do much to avoid the inevitable. Even when they suspect that it is the usual way.
Today, however, his model was not so predictable. Moss, 34, ran past seems to follow the path in the afternoon, he announced his retirement from the NFL after 13 seasons, 954 receptions, 14 858 receiving yards, 154 touchdown passes in general and the legacy of a stable, but complex.
Maybe we'll hear an official explanation in the coming hours or days. Maybe it's just common sense way to prevent the veteran training camp. Perhaps the representative, apparently self-appointed, Chris Carter, Moss involving a real sense of what he believes his former teammate - showing that the Patriots gave him a one-year contract is just the beginning. Or maybe Moss goes to his favorite fishing hole in West Virginia and keep us in suspense until the reasons for his place in the municipality.
Make no mistake, the day of making mustard and a bronze bust, which may or may not get to have their likeness, and that in its first year of law school. If you are one of the journalists moody, fickle sports whose subtle senses were affected, with Joe Buck fans in Green Bay Moss musardée twisted and pulled out another trick of immature, maybe write or tweet or vomiting at times today that Moss Hall of Fame is not in your mind. But beware, thousands of supporters and some self-awareness. Such a proposal would have you believe that the final confirmation of its position and prestige lost in the subjective. Like many other arcades Daunte Culpepper, the Hall of Fame would be incomplete without it.
Jerry Rice is just a great player to catch a pass in the NFL, and no other receiver in several stages. But Moss's argument that the second place, and nobody - not even figure - brilliantly played the position. Rice hit 197, more than 44 Moss, who tied for second with Terrell Owens. No knock on Rice, a surgeon who is legally designated grill the greatest player of all time, NFL Network. But I bet the same advantages Moss spectacular light, it was a defensive player who suddenly found himself faced with obstacles or ghost normally catch the ball with one hand as a father who shows his six years of tightening around the nerve. He performed many of his greatest highlights and achievements in his first season in the 17th receiving touchdown, another record, highlighting the shortcomings of change - the first Randall Cunningham and Jeff George, and Culpepper - in the end zone .
Moss was known before it was the glory of football and the status of off-screen events (assault charges in marijuana), not to let it participate in Notre Dame and Florida. He made his name at the time Division 1-AA Marshall. . .
. . . and master the art of the defenders of the obstacles, but slipped down to 21 at the 1998 NFL draft, two options after a Patriots selected running back Robert Edwards accidents and choice in choosing a defensive challenged GPS Tebucky Jones. He was, of course, instant star. After seven seasons of productive discussion in Minnesota and two with the formalities with the cause of eternal despair, in Oakland, Moss found redemption and renewal in the art of the Patriots in 2007.
The chemistry between Moss and Tom Brady was instantaneous. Moss caught nine for 151 yards in yesterday's early patriots, and that this production is not the exception but the norm. He had eight multi-hit games and nine 100-yard games, six receptions and scored at least 40 meters. He finished the regular season with 98 catches for 1,493 yards and 23 hit record, and Brady set a record for touchdown cards of the NFL with 50 as the Patriots finished the regular season 16-0. They were, for all practical purposes, perfect.
Finally, of course, was not. Moss has never played in the Super Bowl champion New England and came to the end of the racing season three, more here after Week 4 last season, when it came back to Minnesota after the match draw against the Dolphins in catch when he would have won coach Bill O'Brien at halftime. Their departure fueled monologue after the game after Week 1 victory over the Bengals, where he said he knew it was his final season with the Patriots, is meaningless, after he continued to praise the team must change. Only when it became clear that Moss wanted desperately to stay, gave them no choice but to get rid of it.
Boston, Manny Ramirez was football. They wanted it so unique, and often did, but it is not always easy. He was moody, mercurial, unpredictable and mysterious. He made football look so easy that his critics could not believe he worked at it, if the countless stories he did. Hand, seems to shrink when he went to the environment and the real or imaginary complaints can lead to access. You had to let him know that the chance that it will not fail and will never give a full explanation later. But you did it because the good times were so damn good, it's worth.
If Moss has decided to resign now because the New York Jets signed Plaxico Burress in the place, well, it may be appropriate in a symmetrical manner. Patriots fans should remember that the depth of the hero Burress 18-0 Giants upset Patriots in Super Bowl XLI. What is sometimes lost in the complex sequence of time here is that Moss might be it - he gave the example of a Patriots 10.14 with 2 minutes and 42 seconds to go - and it was so close to him in the last moments of patriotic desperation, he was almost behind the Giants defense, but. Brady uprising in the fourth and missed 20 of his fingers. He slipped so easily that you wonder if he went all out and go after it, Randy, you can just jump a little higher, or perhaps dive, simply leave no doubt?
But you also know that the list of receivers who can get a chance to even be able to make a game like this probably do not know a man who could not do it. Nobody has a road trip that Randy Moss, to date.
Who knows. With the ravages of abbreviated training camp could cripple the recipients, "the temptation of some confusion orders injuries should consult with Moss during the season, and even the possibility that Burress is triggered in the foot again, maybe Randy Moss a great way for him again.
