MTZehvor said:
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. |
1. Moss was on the "Dream team" and didn't win the super bowl. Patriots had possibly the best team on paper that year in NFL history.
2. The Patriots would've won if they scored more than 17 points. Too bad Randy moss didn't do much.
3. It's not the player's skill, but their attitude. T.O. had great stats, but he was cancer in the locker room causing the team to fall apart.
Last edited by Snoopy - on 08 September 2019
