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MTZehvor on 08 September 2019
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Snoopy said:
MTZehvor said:

You have to be trolling at this point. By that logic, the Dolphins investing in Dan Marino was a poor use of resources because he didn't win a ring. More goes into a championship than a single player, especially when it comes to WR.

He had Bill Bellicheck and Tom Brady. The best QB and Coach of our era and couldn't get a ring. He failed.

This is such an insanely bad take for so many reasons.

First, Moss was only with Brady/Belichick for two seasons before being traded to Minnesota. That's an extremely small window to win a Super Bowl. Jerry Rice didn't win a Super Bowl with Walsh/Montana until his fourth season. Emmitt Smith didn't win a ring with Johnson/Aikman until his third season. It's insane logic to call either of those players failures because they didn't win a Super Bowl within two years of working with a star combo.

Second, Moss would have won a Super Bowl in his first season with New England were it not for an extremely fluke play in the helmet catch. If Rodney Harrison punches that ball out, the Pats win. Are you really going to argue that a play that Moss wasn't even involved with somehow reflects poorly on him?

Finally, rings (like anything) are a poor be all end all measure of the quality of a player. Trent Dilfer was not a better QB than Dan Marino. Julian Edelman is not a better WR than Randy Moss. LaGarrette Blount is not a better RB than LaDanian Tomlinson. A lot more goes into winning a championship than a single player. It takes a team, and sometimes that isn't even enough. Sometimes you just get bad luck thrown your way, and you lose your SB shot as a result. It's absurd to knock Moss for the lack of a ring unless it was somehow his fault that his teams lost, and it never really was.