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Come on that is an excuse. The guy hustling the hardest out there on all accounts was Welker and Stallworth wasn't far behind. Heck, Brady called Welker a Labadore because of his hustle. There were a lot of new guys busting their asses out there and Moss wasn't one of them.
I don't think it is a huge deal that Moss was dogging it in minicamp, but if it goes into training camp it is going to become a problem. Moss has also had injuries each of the last three years and some of them may be attributed to conditioning. I wonder if Moss dogging it in the past may be affecting his ability to stay healthy. Maybe, maybe not. But Moss hasn't been a dominant player in three years and maybe what he has done in the past isn't working now that he is getting up there in age.
Making excuses for the guy only goes so far. First, his effort problems was he was playing for a horrible team. Now it is he is working at his own pace. At some point if he continues to dog it, people have to accept the facts that Moss is just lazy in practice.
You and I must have watched a different feed of Sports Final. DeOssie was mocking Felger's hysteria laced diatribe. He tried to explain what mini camp was, told him all receivers dog routes now and again, and (half jokingly but to make his point) told him guys who pant and sweat (ala Welker) often do so because they aren't in shape.
Felger tried to get Don Banks to join him in the light Monday on his radio show, but Banks continued to say that this is the way Randy has always approached the game - including when he was putting up sick numbers in Minnesota. He's not a leader, he wasn't hired to tutor the youngsters, he's a talent who was brought in to catch passes and score TD's and help create matchup nightmares for opposing DC's. Banks said his attitude is obviously upbeat and he looks happier than he has since his early years. And he is here when Belichick told him he didn't have to be working hard at what he (and apparently his teamates) believe he needs to work on. He's in the weight room mornings when Rodney arrives, and in the meeting rooms and at the charity events with his teamates and even attending wakes for guys he never knew.
Felger is just playing his Dillon card. He's being contrarian because that gives him the best chance of getting his opinions noticed. He has become the epitome of that old adage that there is no such thing as bad press, only press. His ratings have been taking a beating of late, and he's sinking to new lows to drum up callers. The other day they were talking about the Vick case. Felger is on record mocking the concept of punishing someone for killing pit bulls, including the other Falcon to do so (Babineaux), saying they do society a service. His idiot sidekicks were saying he only felt that way because of his irrational hatred of a breed, and if it were golden retrievers being maimed and killed he'd feel differently, wouldn't he...well...Mike... His snappy retort was, I'm thinking. Apparently about his ratings.
Felger is all about being a sports radio shock jock now.
Yesterday he said he's fine with Moss not talking to the media. He's fine with none of them talking, because if they don't then he's free to write or say whatever he wants about them without having to listen to their pathetic blah blah blah...
As fans we would be well served to care about what Bill and his team have to say about players. You won't get that from Felger. All you will get from him is what he says he thinks or as "heard" based on an overwhelming need to boost ratings ESPN the parent company is likely chewing his ass over. By his own admission he is no longer a member of the Herald staff, rather he is on hiatus and freelancing the occasional column for them. His entire focus is on hanging on to his little media empire and that's all about the ratings.