Comments on: RANDY MOSS HAS ALWAYS BEEN UNBELIEVABLY AWESOME

By: ND1

ND1 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:03:59 +0000

#33–Tough to say ‘who was throwing the ball was irrelevant’ when Rice spent almost his entire career catching balls from Joe Montana and Steve Young, unless you mean ‘he played well with either of the two HOF QBs throwing to him’.

By: trumpetdaddy

trumpetdaddy — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:18:19 +0000

papaloubsu is correct. I have never understood why NFL teams can’t seem to do what Miami did to Moss that day. He caught a long TD on the first or second play of the game, I believe, against about a 5′9” corner. After that, Miami put the corner in bump and run coverage and smacked Moss in the chest/facemask within the five yard limit…hard…on every single play. I don’t believe he caught another ball the rest of the day.

Dude don’t like to get hit. If you “respect his speed,” he’ll kill you. Smack him in the grill every play and he disappears.

By: Brian O'Blivion

Brian O'Blivion — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:53:21 +0000

41 – I agree that Moss is more physically gifted than Rice was. So is Terrell Owens. That doesn’t make either of them more talented. Rice was not a “jump ball” kind of receiver, so if you are basing talent just on that, I would choose Moss too.

There is more to talent as a receiver than being 6′4″ and running fast. Same is true of running backs. Just take a look at Barry Sanders. Lots of RB’s were more physically gifted than him, but few have been more talented.

Rice is to the receiver position what Barry Sanders was to running. He turned nothing plays into long gains. He ran every route perfectly, and his yards after catch were unsurpassed because he could see the field as good as any running back.

#36, you’re dreaming if you think Moss will break Rice’s records. He’s nowhere close. Even the single season TD record he broke, Rice set his in a strike shortened season.

By: Biggus Rickus

Biggus Rickus — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:57:31 +0000

PW,

You’re right that he got off to a bad start before the injury, but it is interesting to note that Moss’ worst year in Minnesota coincided with Culpepper’s best.

By: Mr Pelican Pants

Mr Pelican Pants — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:00:04 +0000

Randy Moss reminds me a scarecrow on crack, his nickname on the street during the breakdancing craze would be Crazy Leggs……They didnt call him the Super Freak for nuthin………Just think if he would have played on teams like the Patriots or Green Bay earlier in his career with a really good team around him….he would have sick numbers…No wonder Brett Farve threw a hissy fit this past offseason when they didnt get him…..

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:58:34 +0000

The only thing I can think of that is remotely comparable to getting kicked out of FSU would be Dickie Betts getting kicked out of the Allman Brothers for excessive drinking. How big of a lush to you have to be before Gregg Allman thinks you need to cut back?

By: PW

PW — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:11:32 +0000

Biggus, I’m calling BS on Culpepper’s bum knee excuse.

I forget which year it was, but the first year after Moss left, the Vikings started off 0-7 with Culpepper, then he blew his knee out. After that, Brad Johnson came in with the same team and reeled off 7 straight wins.

Needless to say, I was overjoyed when the Jags elected not to sign him after he left Miami.

By: haybeav

haybeav — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:57:15 +0000

33 -

No doubt, Rice is the greastest ever…But I’d have to say that there no arguing that Moss has greater physical abilities

By: I've Got a Herd-on

I've Got a Herd-on — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:28:26 +0000

I was actually in West Point for that when I was 12. He had a 79 yarder that day too.

The most amazing stat is that Moss had a TD in all 28 games he played for the Herd.

By: Nick Saban

Nick Saban — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:27:27 +0000

While I don’t have time for this shit (been looking for an offensive coordinator), I will tell you that chad pennington reminds me of good erik ainge in that film

By: Hossnfeffer

Hossnfeffer — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:36:07 +0000

I graduated from DuPont High School and followed the Randy Moss saga pretty closely. 31 has it pretty close to correct. He was offered a schollie to ND (along with his full back, Bobby Howard). Before he graduated, he beat a kid into a coma at the gym. It was said to be over a racial slur, if that is the only case, he could have beat like 50 kids into a coma. Anyway that cost him his ND scholarship. He got offered by FSU afterwards, and FSU got a bit of grief for taking him after his beating…Then he got caught smoking the dopage…Then he transferred to Marshall, who was at the time a 1AA school, so he didnt have to sit out.

That class at that little WV school had 4 professional athletes: Randy Moss, Bobby Howard (ND and Chicago), Jason Williams (NBA) and a kid named Sam Singleton who played pro baseball for a time.

By: J.J.

J.J. — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:56:20 +0000

Who hasn’t beaten somebody almost to death for a racial slur? C’mon.

By: tomass

tomass — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:33:58 +0000

Randy Moss will break all of Jerry Rices records

By: SavannahDawg

SavannahDawg — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:42:57 +0000

#33, Talent and numbers do not always add up. Rice made the most of his abilities. Moss… not so much. Thats not even taking into account # of games played by the two. The eyeball test, to me, indicates that Moss is the more “talented” of the two, not the better “football player.”

By: shovel pass

shovel pass — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:34:30 +0000

the dude is sick. oh yea, nice down field block at .46 too.