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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Randy Moss is under appreciated in New England. He gets ripped by national and Boston media far more than he deserves. He's been one of the team's hardest workers and producers since he's been here.
He's on the verge of breaking or tying some huge all-time records, and it's not really getting the attention or recognition or appreciation he should be receiving.
But the list goes back to the early days, Ernie Nevers was on it.
Clearly Moss at 65 isnt going to be the #2 WR, but I dont think his contemporaries are the ones ahead of him.
Don Hutson
Ray Berry
Steve Largent
Jerry Rice
would put 5 WRs in the top 65 in a 75 year old league where WRs were secondary stars for the first 50.
Sounds about right. Assume half are O half are D.
That leaves 32 on O ahead of Moss.
Rice is the best of all time!!The guy wasnt the fastest but he ran crisp routes and always played big in big games.I love Moss but its about determination with him.
Trust me, if you had Randy Moss or Steve Largent for say, 2 months and were asked to pick a player, everyone would pick Moss.
Of course they would. Many here likely have never seen Largent play, and of course he's white, so he gets the melanin-free discount too. Personally, I think Moss is clearly #2 ever, but the other guys are in the conversation.
When Largent was playing, he was pretty much the consensus #2/3 WR in the league...for virtually his entire career. He played like a better Cris Carter...he could always get open, and his hands were outstanding. Except he was as good in between the 10s as he was in the goal-line area, and he was always his team's #1 threat. Teams would design their game plan around him, but they still couldn't stop him. When he retired he held every major NFL receiving record. In 1996 when the Sporting News did a top 100 of all time, he was ranked in the top 50.
It's not unlike the conversations I have with younger co-workers, who think the greatest CDs of all time all come from the Puff Daddy/Britney Spears/50 Cent/Eminem/Lady Gaga/Kelly Clarkson era.
I mentioned that I saw a Rush show last weekend and a grand total of 0 knew whom I was referring to.
Just because things are old, does not mean they are the greatest of all time.
If any quarterback not named Montana is over Brady, namely Goober, it would be a joke. Somehow I suspect they'll put Goober over him.
It doesn't mean they're not either. It's kind of a silly statement. Just because things are new, does not mean they are the greatest of all time. I'm not here arguing that Babe Parilli was a better QB than Tom Brady, My 3 Sons was a better TV show than the Simpsons, Martha Washington was hotter than Sophia Bush, or Sodom was a better place to live than San Diego.
Rice is the best WR of all time, and there's really not a cohesive argument to be made against. It's my opinion that he's the best football player of all time, regardless of position.
But when someone wonders which receivers might be on the list ahead of him, and the list of candidates is Owens, Harrison, Tim Brown, and Chris Carter...well, let's say that it shows an unreasonable bias towards the current era.
If any quarterback not named Montana is over Brady, namely Goober, it would be a joke. Somehow I suspect they'll put Goober over him.
Having watched Randy's entire NFL career, as I'm sure many other members of this forum have, I'd say he should be much higher than 65th. In his prime, Randy was the ultimate weapon, and could burst past every DB in the league.
Who gives a rats a&^?
Mossy didn't set any reception records last Sunday did he??
It doesn't mean they're not either. It's kind of a silly statement. Just because things are new, does not mean they are the greatest of all time. I'm not here arguing that Babe Parilli was a better QB than Tom Brady, My 3 Sons was a better TV show than the Simpsons, Martha Washington was hotter than Sophia Bush, or Sodom was a better place to live than San Diego.