don't go there, seriously.
Moss played in a dome with a pretty good QB for a majority of his career. He also was the prime beneficiary of playing with the 2007 Patriots, the greatest offense in the history of football.
In Oakland, Moss played on a sh!tty team so lets say he lost about 20 TD over 3 yrs but he also dogged it for most of that time and gave up on lots of his routes.
He doesn't really deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Are you kidding? Minnesota fielded terrible quarterbacks while Moss was there; they only looked as good as they did because it's easy to read coverage when Moss is perpetually doubled or tripled (that's how Nate Burleson became a stud #2WR in that offense), and 40 yard TD passes were as simple as throw it as hard as you can in Moss's general direction and he'd usually come down with it.
QB's who started for Moss's Vikings:
35 year-old Randall Cunningham: Only got the job because Brad Johnson got hurt. Had a cannon arm and a ridiculously long windup. The fact that he could just heave it up to Moss long before the pass rush had any chance of getting to him added an all-pro year to his career that he had no business having. Just look at his stats before and after 1998:
Randall Cunningham
By 1999, opponents had realized that you could render him useless by throwing 2-3 defenders at Moss and the rest at Cunningham himself. He was benched by midseason.
Jeff George: came in after Cunningham proved ineffective in 1999: Had a cannon arm, and that was all he really needed. Same strategy as Cunningham- when in doubt, chuck it at Moss.
Todd Bouman: textbook JAG, had to start a few games in 2001 and ended up looking better than he ever looked again after that: even managed to post a 98.3 QB rating over 5 games.
Daunte Culpepper: The ultimate example of how Moss made crappy quarterbacks look good. In 5 years with Moss, everyone thought Culpepper was an all-pro. Probably would have won an MVP in 2004 if Manning hadn't gone and set the TD record the same year. Even now, everyone claims that the only reason why he sucks is because his knee got torn up. But look at the 7 games after Moss was traded, but before Culpepper blew his knee out:
7 games, 1564 yards (223 y/g), 6 TDs, 12 INTs, 31 sacks taken, 72 QB rating.
Remember, the year before that (with Moss), Culpepper had a 110 rating, 4700 yards and 39 TD passes. He was an MVP candidate in 2004, then they get rid of Moss, and suddenly he's an indecisive QB who can't read coverages and throws twice as many picks as TDs. What everyone outside of the Dolphins' front office quickly realized was that Moss had been covering for Culpepper for years. He made a JAG who held the ball too long and couldn't read coverages to save his life look like an all pro.
In his first year playing with a legitimately good NFL quarterback, Moss submitted the most dominant season by a WR in NFL history.
See, this is what bugs me about people who'd like to rewrite history and claim that Moss was lucky enough to play in good offenses for his entire career. I get the distinct sense that they didn't actually watch most of those offenses, because those of us who did realize that it wasn't Moss who was lucky enough to land in great offense after great offense. He made offenses great by playing in them. The 1998 Vikings were the highest-scoring offense of all time with a 35 year old former scrambler who never had a productive season again at QB. Randy Moss singlehandedly made or extended the pro bowl careers of Randall Cunningham, Daunte Culpepper, and Cris Carter (who, for all his *****ing, benefited more than anyone else from the obscene attention that Moss drew from opposing secondaries. He was putting up pro bowl numbers with rapidly diminishing talent well into his mid-30s).
