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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.No, they will never say that. But if a teammate is really not giving effort, something will happen teamwise (AD getting the healthy inactive agaisnt the Titans, for example). If Brady thought he wasn't doing poorly and just wasn't in the game, he wouldn't have been encouraging him on the sidelines, he would have been yelling at him a la Joey Galloway.
I think he is still hurt. I know, it's not on the injury report blah blah. Back injuries don't magically disappear. What he needs is time off...I am hoping the Houston game ends up being worthless and he can take it off.
Kevin Faulk and Tom Brady are trying to keep Moss from shutting it down completely. The Patriots have no chance the last three games if Moss plays like he did yesterday.
Is this the "Patriot Way"????
Players having to coddle a 32 yr old malcontent so he won't "shut it down"??
How pathetic!!!
This isn't the Patriot Way and until players like Moss, AD and Springs are removed from this team the winning attitude and professionalism that marked the Patriots Way of going about their business will not be back.
And yes the Patriots can win without Randy Moss. Tom Brady simply needs to recognize when his binky doesn't want to play and avoid him as happened yesterday in the 2nd half. The best thing that could happen to Tom Brady is he losses confidence and believe in Moss and stops forcing the ball to him. We'd have beaten Miami if Brady had done this last week.
No, they will never say that. But if a teammate is really not giving effort, something will happen teamwise (AD getting the healthy inactive agaisnt the Titans, for example). If Brady thought he wasn't doing poorly and just wasn't in the game, he wouldn't have been encouraging him on the sidelines, he would have been yelling at him a la Joey Galloway.
I think he is still hurt. I know, it's not on the injury report blah blah. Back injuries don't magically disappear. What he needs is time off...I am hoping the Houston game ends up being worthless and he can take it off.
Kevin Faulk and Tom Brady are trying to keep Moss from shutting it down
completely. The Patriots have no chance the last three games if Moss
plays like he did yesterday.
Between Chris Gamble's and Art Shell's comments, I'd say Moss has a known psychological imperfection that really came to the fore.
But he's been a highly productive player despite it for years, and most likely will be soon again.
I think a lot of things are daunting Moss this season. My observations on the way he moves and uses his body compared to the way he once did have fallen mostly on deaf ears. Any criticism of Randy is kneejerk characterized as unfair criticism. He clearly isn't the same player who was wildly successful in his first 10-12 weeks here. Whether that is due to injury per se or a chronic problem potentially age related is anyone's guess. He plays like a guy with a stiff back. Doesn't bend or jump or cut well. Doesn't fight off blockers or get off jams with any burst. He still has straight line speed when he flashes it in the open. Whether he's protecting himself or genuinely cannot do more than he does is anyone's guess. The result is the same. Daunting.
That they feel they have to continue to try and involve him in games potentially to their detriment of is a byproduct of both his top tier contract status and the lack of sufficiently viable alternate options. Everyone has taken a hit for him, his HOF QB gets admonished for becoming myopic or careless over him, his coordinators get eviscerated for alternately not calling better plays for him or not getting away from him, other players get under or over or improperly utilized in an effort to work around his unavailability or create opportunities for him. That is physically as well as mentally draining for them. As is the process of supporting his fragile ego. They have their own performances to worry about.
I just don't know how long you can keep doing all that when the results aren't what you bargained for. The ends aren't justifying the means. Brady needs better receivers and more options to optimize his talents. That's been the case for a while now, even before the merely physically fragile twig departed. He doesn't have the time to wait for receivers to get open absent the kind of success he experienced in the first twelve weeks of 2007 without risking losing his own career to cumulative injury in the process. And the team is risking everyone else's career on this roster in the process as well. If the process continues to ultimately fail in part because of an unfortunate flaw in an inigmatic however other worldly talent, that would be truly tragic.
Pfft. Like Kevin Faulk knows better than the posters on PatsFans.com!
Is this the "Patriot Way"????
Players having to coddle a 32 yr old malcontent so he won't "shut it down"??
How pathetic!!!
This isn't the Patriot Way and until players like Moss, AD and Springs are removed from this team the winning attitude and professionalism that marked the Patriots Way of going about their business will not be back.
And yes the Patriots can win without Randy Moss. Tom Brady simply needs to recognize when his binky doesn't want to play and avoid him as happened yesterday in the 2nd half. The best thing that could happen to Tom Brady is he losses confidence and belief in Moss and stops forcing the ball to him. We'd have beaten Miami if Brady had done this last week.