Roll your eyes all you want. I already know your football IQ is lying on the floor somewhere. When a player plays with a new team there are new strategies to be to be made when game planing. This is prob why if Minn. has a halfway decent offense coordinator they should be tearing it up this year while teams figure out the best way to play against their new offense.
#1 Moss came from Oakland everyone thought he was finished
#2 Moss had a chip on his shoulder and was playing with passion.. something he hasn't done since 2007
#3 Teams were getting burned BAD by compensating by doubling Moss because Welker was emerging that same year as an equally devastating threat.
#4 He has already slowed down and lost the chip on his shoulder.. he was reverting into his cancerous personality with declining skills and a declining passion to play for this team.
It took more then a full season of watching and copying/tweaking other teams failed strategy of taking down the powerhouse that emerged that year but yes I hate to break it to you. Teams figured out how to game plan around it and guess what the Patriots couldn't do? They couldn't change their game plan because their #1 threat can only do what he does best.. he is absolutely terrible at everything else.
1) He blocks like a sleep walking zombie
2) He runs intermediate routes like he is jogging around a track only getting open when he catches the D sleeping thinking he is going long.
3) He can't take a hit so he can't take a quick hook or go over the middle
4) He takes a good 40 yards before he is up to full speed
How do you tell someone like that to do something other then the 1 thing he does good? You don't.. which is why we have fallen into the Randy trap that has occurred.
Is he good? Yeah he is very good at one thing which has been slowly declining.... do we need someone that can only do this one thing? Or would we be better off with an all around type WR that is a first down machine or at least producing an option of a first down without having to throw 30+ yards.. It'd be nice to have all our starting WR's as potential first down threats instead of low percentage malcontent home run hitters...