Patriots' Randy Moss a slouch? Not so much
by MaPatsFan on Feb 1, 2010 8:20 PM EST
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PrintIt's easy to be negative, to be full of bravado in a sport like Football. About the only thing you have to watch out for is saying something asinine, vapid, and stupid. It will come back to haunt you. Forever. It takes about a nanosecond to find as much garbage on a person as you'd ever want.
Take one Darrelle Revis. He may be one of the best corners playing the game today, but he's a punk, plain and simple:
Jets CB Darrelle Revis declined to back off his assertion that Patriots WR Randy Moss is a "slouch" on Wednesday.
In an interview with the NFLN last week, Revis said that Moss and Bills WR Terrell Owens were slouches.
The Boston Herald asked Revis on Wednesday to clarify what "slouch" means.
"You know what a slouch means," Revis told the paper.
Revis' statements would be punk'ish even if it was situation normal. Maybe I should just adopt a liberal attitude and assume he's being an ass because he was "raised" that way, because his head coach is just as much of a punk and therefore, it's ok. Yes, it would be punk'ish if things were normal, but it's even MORE punk'ish in light of recent revelations about Moss' shoulder:
Wide receiver Randy Moss was diagnosed with a separated shoulder following the Patriots' season and that was the reason he did not play in the Pro Bowl, a league source said on Monday.
Moss had surfaced on the injury report with a shoulder ailment three days after the Patriots' 20-17 overtime loss to the Broncos on Oct. 11. He remained on the injury report because of the shoulder through Nov. 6, although he played through the injury.
Darrelle? Are you listening? That would be the sound of stones hitting your glass house. And that goes for every other miscreant who labeled Moss a malcontent and a slacker (Felger, that's you Michael). I'll be awaiting everyone's apology post haste and if you don't decide to pony up, shame on you.
One last thing: while Moss was supposedly "slouching" with his separated shoulder, he managed some fairly impressive stats:
Moss started all 16 games this season and finished second on the team with 83 receptions for 1,264 yards and a team-high 13 touchdowns. He played in approximately 85 percent of the team's offensive snaps, easily a team-high among receivers.
Man up, Revis, and apologize. Anything less is the ravings of a spoiled, little boy.
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What do you expect from a player that takes after his coach! Great talent with a two-cent head speaking before knowing the facts.
by Brady's Revenge on Feb 1, 2010 8:43 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Yep
Bill was supportive of him the whole time. Had to be a reason.
This stuff happens often enough that I can’t understand why people do this. Fans do it, writers do it, and other players do it. Will they ever learn?
"simul justus et peccator"
Hmm, does that mean O'Brien gets a little more lee-way?
He turned away from calling Moss on crossing routes about the same time Moss got injured. Does that mean he gets credit for only calling Moss on long bombs where Moss wasn’t going to go into contact with his shoulder?
If so. Sorry, O’Brien. A little. I still don’t like your 3rd-and-2 pass play, though.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
i wanna cry now
the 06 afc champ game is on espn 2 and black sunday is on the nfl network.
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Not bad for a reciever with an injured arm with a QB with an injured finger and ribs
maybe next year when everyone is healthy we’ll show revis really how much of a “slouch” moss is.
Randy could tuck the ball under one elbow, Revis under the other,
and lope upfield like a two-legged Horse on steroids. I’d pay a LOT to see that.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
PLAYCALLING
i agree on the o’brien statement…..i was becoming extremely annoyed with the lack of balls thrown deep…especially since we have Moss…but i can understand better now why they weren’t going deep more often…i guess this is a lesson learned that things are not always as they seem….
as for Revis, he is acting like a bit of a drama queen, if you actually look at the randy moss interview from week 2, he really didn’t say anything that bad; it was just the media instigating as usual
P.S.
i know a lot of people were commenting that age was catching up to him….but i doubt it….i remember watching that Colts game and he blew through 63 yards in 5 and a half seconds….he’s still got burners man, he just needs to heal those shoulders!
The entire Boston Globe needs to apologize to Moss
Every single one of their writers was absolutely brutal to Randy after the Carolina game
by bbismyhero on Feb 2, 2010 8:15 AM EST via mobile reply actions
I repeated that Moss was injured all year.
I’ve seen him fight for the ball, and I’ve seen him fight for yards. He looked hurt. He also wasn’t throwing his arms up much to make catches. Lifting your arms above your head with a seperated shoulder? You’re asking for pain. Moss was and is a freak of nature. He played because we needed him to play. How’s that for a team player?
My life has been a trivial pursuit. Trivia: where three roads meet.
The more you know, the more you know that you don't know.
by SlotMachinePlayer on Feb 2, 2010 11:59 AM EST reply actions
Was the rumoured 'back injury' cover for the shoulder?
Nah – now that I think about it, he’s had actual back problems in the past. That was probably real on top of the shoulder.
I’m even more convinced that the ‘snow day’ event was partly cover to get Randy an off-day of rest.
His back was hurting big time in week 3 against the Falcons
and Moss wouldn’t have been so upset about the snow day suspension if it was a planned day of rest for him. Remember that story wouldn’t have been leaked to the press if not for AD’s gossipy case of twitter-fingers.
Moss used to take days off from practice, official so-called non-injury days, during the regular season which I assumed was meant for him to rest.
Keep the faith!
His VCR works just fine to study tape from home.
It’s not like he’s going to sit around and get fat.
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The more you know, the more you know that you don't know.
by SlotMachinePlayer on Feb 2, 2010 4:11 PM EST up reply actions
vcr??? how old are u?
lol
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i love my ZX-6r Kawasaki.
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ya know... I was going to post the same thing..
but SMP and I are the same age so I just left it alone.
Keep the faith!
i can prob. bet that SMP has a 20" inch black screen TV and a rabbit ears
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i love my ZX-6r Kawasaki.
I bleed Scarlet and Grey...A Buckeye for Life
So? I don't get it. What are you guys talking about?
Isn’t that what everybody has?
10" B&W round screen (all tube) next to my victrola.
I was thinking of upgrading to 8-track, but I’m just too cheap. Why do you ask?
I said VCR because the Spygate bruhaha always mentioned “tapes”. What media to you think they put game film on for study? Does anyone know for sure? Took a shot….
As far as “How old am I?”:
The first TV I remember was a black and white tube job that took around 10 minutes to warm up before you could watch it. Color TV’s were useless because most shows weren’t broadcast in color until the early 70’s. Listened to records and albums on the phonogragh, and stereo was an upgrade. Quadrophonic was a fad. Remember when TV shows advertised “In living color” (before it was a show title). Had reel-to-reel recorder before I switched to cassette (never had 8-track, but I knew people that did). Got cable as soon as it was available. Owned a betamax (VHS was Sony’s first (alpha) format that was inferior to it’s second (beta) format, so they discarded it). First computer was a VIC-20 with 3.5 k of RAM, and a cassette tape drive. Second was a Commodore 64, followed by the 128 (which was the first CP/M machine). For those that don’t know, Bill Gates took the CP/M command language, added a file structure borrowed fron Unix and it became MS-DOS. That’s where his money came from. Windows and MacIntosh was heavily borrowed from technology discarded by Xerox, who wanted to “focus on their core business”. Intel machines – the “IBM clones” won out over Apple machines for two reasons: 1. Code was forward compatible with new machines (you didn’t have to buy all new machines and all new programs at the same time – bean counters loved it); 2. Architecture was standardized so different manufacturers could compete (drove the cost down). I’ve been around.
My life has been a trivial pursuit. Trivia: where three roads meet.
The more you know, the more you know that you don't know.
by SlotMachinePlayer on Feb 3, 2010 12:07 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, MS-DOS.
I entered this mortal coil in the age of DOS. It was pretty hard to run games off it before you even know how to read/spell.
I had all the commands memorized, though.
C: cd/sierra
C:sierra> hero
Quest for Glory, anyone?
Dos commands are still buried in there in places
My life has been a trivial pursuit. Trivia: where three roads meet.
The more you know, the more you know that you don't know.
by SlotMachinePlayer on Feb 3, 2010 4:41 PM EST up reply actions
I delayed taking my first computer class in college by a semester
so I wouldn’t have to use punch cards. I took a 5 year hiatus in the military, finished 12 years after I started and PC’s (with 486’s) were all the rage. Intel was trying to figure out how to get the heat out of their new Pentium processor.
Alas, I’m in the business of forcing electrons to do my evil bidding.
My life has been a trivial pursuit. Trivia: where three roads meet.
The more you know, the more you know that you don't know.
by SlotMachinePlayer on Feb 3, 2010 4:45 PM EST up reply actions
haha... punch cards
Never had the indignity chance to learn those. My first computer course was Basic in my senior year of high school. We had to write a program (on those oh-so-modern Commodores ) to create a game of chance. We thought we were the smartest and coolest things on earth.
Keep the faith!
Not much has changed except the tools you get to use
and teens still think they’re the smartest and coolest things on earth.
With punch cards, if someone pissed you off, you’d shuffle the deck. Let them spend hours getting their cards back in the right order.
My life has been a trivial pursuit. Trivia: where three roads meet.
The more you know, the more you know that you don't know.
by SlotMachinePlayer on Feb 3, 2010 5:24 PM EST up reply actions
what was your mos in the USAF?
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i love my ZX-6r Kawasaki.
I bleed Scarlet and Grey...A Buckeye for Life
PMEL - Precision Measurement Electronic Laboratory
In other words calibrations. Fixed the equipment they used to to fix equipment.
From the Laser Guided Bomb testsets (for the bombs we dropped on Libya – the test set was made by Texas Instruments), to the time standards for the Radar sites and SR-71’s.
My life has been a trivial pursuit. Trivia: where three roads meet.
The more you know, the more you know that you don't know.
by SlotMachinePlayer on Feb 4, 2010 10:50 AM EST up reply actions
Pretty sure they were two different injuries. At least they showed up that way.
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The more you know, the more you know that you don't know.
by SlotMachinePlayer on Feb 2, 2010 4:12 PM EST up reply actions
I wondered around that time why Moss was stopped from running crossing routes
He’d run a lot, even with the back injury, in the first game when Welker was hurt – Falcons, if I remember correctly. And then nada – right around the time he hurt his shoulder. Mea culpa; maybe O’Brien was protecting Moss and not actually mis-using him.
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