Can't Blame Moss for Losses!
I’ve never written a letter (email) to a magazine before. Probably, because I never had an article that illicit such emotion. Matt Taibbi’s article “The Franchise-Killer” from Rolling Stone, issue 1117 – November 11th, 2010, talks how Randy Moss is an elite player that can’t win the big game for his team.
Here are some of the quotes from the article that really got me angry..
“His anti-karma helped sink two of the greatest teams ever – the ’98 Vikings and the ’07 Pats – and Moss now has to be considered the Barry Bonds of football.”
This is a very elementary way of looking at things. Moss was on these teams, these teams didn’t win, its Moss’s fault. As a rookie for the 98 Vikings, Moss scored a touchdown in that game. He didn’t miss that chip-shot field goal. Bonds was the Giants, enuff said.
“Moss is the biggest life-force-draining diva of them all.”
There are so many bigger life-force-draining divas. Terrell Owens, Gilbert Arenas to name two.
“In order to be a bona fide Hall of Fame Team-Killer, the perpetual losing has to somehow be your fault.”
How can you blame any of these losses on Moss or Bonds. They made no mistakes in their play that you can point to. For the ’07 Pats, blame the O-line for not protecting Brady enough throughout that game, blame the D-line for not sacking Eli Manning, blame Rodney Harrison for not knocking away the ball from David Tyree, blame Asante Samuel for missing an easy pick, there is nothing to blame on Randy Moss that season.
Here was my response to Rolling Stone:
Dear RS-
I just finished Matt Taibbi’s article on Randy Moss called “The Franchise-Killer.” Taibbi is way off the mark placing blame on Moss and Barry Bonds for holding their teams back from winning their respective big games. A little research would show that in Bonds only World Series appearance, he hit .471 with 4 HR 13 walks (7 of them being intentional) that gave him an OBP of .700. Yes, throughout Bonds career he was a “me-first” player but he also was the only reason why the Giants were relevant for ten years and helped Jeff Kent (remember him?) be an NL MVP. As for Moss, you can’t blame him for Gary Anderson’s missed 38-yard chip-shot in Minnesota or the fact that the Pats defense just collapsed at the end of the Super Bowl. He did score the go-ahead TD with 2:42 left in that Super Bowl, by the way. No mention of Terrell Owens (Team Obliterator, thanks Skip Bayless) just proves that your missing the mark on this argument.
Randy Moss biggest fault is that when things get tough, he gets complaining. Happened in Minnesota (the first time), Oakland, and New England.
Alex - Host, Ride The Pine – www.ridethepine.com
After doing some research on Taibbi, I found that he primarily focuses on politics. I just hope he understands facts about politics better than he does about sports.
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