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  • Moss to NE

    Per Adam Schefter on NFLN:

    Moss to NE for a 4th round pick...

    Moss will re-structure contract supposedly and is in NE having a physical right now...

    NE has also told Moss if he screws up once he is gone...
    Eliminate distractions, create energy, fear nothing, and attack everything.

    -Andy Reid

  • #2
    Moss on one side, Stallworth on the other..with Brady chunkin the rock. That is scary.

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    • #3
      http://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/story/10156954

      April 29, 2007) -- On Draft Weekend 2007, the biggest tremors in the football world came from a trade between the New England Patriots and Oakland Raiders.

      Randy Moss is on the verge of becoming a Patriot after New England agreed to send a fourth-round pick in Sunday's draft to Oakland for the mercurial and maddening wide receiver. Before the trade is completed, Moss must undergo a physical, which he arrived in New England on Sunday morning to take. Assuming Moss passes, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will be passing him the ball next season in one of the most dynamic and electric quarterback-wide receiver combinations that has ever played in the NFL.

      Moss already has agreed to dramatically restructure his contract, which is scheduled to pay him $9.75 million this coming season. New England was the one and only place Moss would agree to take a reduced contract, and he did so knowing that he would have the chance to win a Super Bowl. With the offseason that New England has had, no team in football has a better chance.

      Moss also comes to New England with the warning that, as Bill Parcells used to say, the light is yellow and ready to turn red. The Patriots have notified Moss that under no circumstance will they tolerate any of the transgressions that have marked his career. The first controversial incident that Moss is involved in will be his last. The Patriots insist they will release him.

      But now that they have him, they are thrilled. Brady is said to be very excited upon learning the news that his team had agreed to a trade with Oakland. Patriots coach Bill Belichick feels the same way as Brady. After spending previous seasons lacking a big-play target, the Patriots now have a plethora of them -- none any bigger than Moss.

      How the trade evolved is a story itself. Ongoing trade talks from throughout the offseason continued Friday and intensified Saturday night after the draft when the Raiders called the Patriots and got New England to sweeten its offer of what had been a sixth-round pick. New England agreed to trade a fourth-round pick to Oakland.

      The trade caps a remarkably and busy offseason for the Patriots, who have repositioned themselves as the team to beat in the AFC and the NFL. They have added former Ravens linebacker Adalius Thomas, former Bengals cornerback Tory James, former Dolphins running back Sammy Morris, former Dolphins wide receiver Wes Welker, former Eagles wide receiver Donte Stallworth and former Bengals wide receiver Kelley Washington.

      Oakland was in a position where it had to trade Moss. It could not afford to pay him his base salary while also signing No. 1 overall pick JaMarcus Russell to a contract that is expected to include about $30 million in guaranteed money. Plus, Raiders coach Lane Kiffin had been anxious to deal Moss and start over fresh, able to implement his own ideas with his own players.

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      • #4
        Don't the Eagles and Pats meet this year? Better get some corners today!

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        • #5
          Their WR corps went from C- to A+ over the offseason. That team is ridiculous.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by sfphillyfan
            Their WR corps went from C- to A+ over the offseason. That team is ridiculous.
            Methinks Bill would like to make sure this season that Peyton is once again on the outside looking in when playoff time rolls around! They are loading up for bear!

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            • #7
              9-7, out of playoffs. They have completely panicked. When you sign or trade for 10 players, and none are on your line, and your line play wasn't all that strong, you are in trouble. I thought their lines hurt them frequently last year.
              "Luck is the residue of design"
              -Branch Rickey

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Striar
                9-7, out of playoffs. They have completely panicked. When you sign or trade for 10 players, and none are on your line, and your line play wasn't all that strong, you are in trouble. I thought their lines hurt them frequently last year.
                I agree. I was going to say something about them panicking but thought that people would say sour grapes. For them losing to Indy was an insult.

                Stall is ok but Moss is not as good as he was 2 years ago and he will start his crap at some point. Moss wants the ball and NE spreads it around more than a $10 hooker.

                Their major problem in the PO's were just what you said, their lines. Specifically their D-line. If you can't get pressure on the Colts you will not beat them.
                FRESH > cancer

                I hate everything the Cowboys stand for. If you think they are America's team, then you support everything that is wrong with America. The excess, the greed, the lack of maturity, the lack of responsibility, the lack of control. - Luzinski's Gut

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