Thursday, October 07, 2010
Can we stop building for next year? Part III
Karen Guregian provides a good chronological overview of Randy’s contract talks and departure. It wasn’t just Belichick vs. Moss. It was also ownership vs. Moss. It became untenable. … I can’t really blame Moss. He was in the last year of his contract. He saw Brady and Wilfork getting extensions. He was getting nothing. He got the message. … Dan notices the same discouraging short-term/long-term patterns to these contract disputes. Sooner or later, the future becomes now. OK, so a Moss-Pats break up was probably inevitable. But there’s a pattern here of the Pats not filling the gaps from the departures of Branch, Samuel and Seymour. Now Moss is leaving under similar circumstances -- and leaving an immediate short-term gap and a long-term gap that won't be filled by a future third rounder. …
Update -- This is encouraging: David Givens thinks everything will be OK. David:
Karen Guregian provides a good chronological overview of Randy’s contract talks and departure. It wasn’t just Belichick vs. Moss. It was also ownership vs. Moss. It became untenable. … I can’t really blame Moss. He was in the last year of his contract. He saw Brady and Wilfork getting extensions. He was getting nothing. He got the message. … Dan notices the same discouraging short-term/long-term patterns to these contract disputes. Sooner or later, the future becomes now. OK, so a Moss-Pats break up was probably inevitable. But there’s a pattern here of the Pats not filling the gaps from the departures of Branch, Samuel and Seymour. Now Moss is leaving under similar circumstances -- and leaving an immediate short-term gap and a long-term gap that won't be filled by a future third rounder. …
Update -- This is encouraging: David Givens thinks everything will be OK. David:
In my opinion, I saw this coming a lot sooner than when it happened. I saw it coming when Randy went off and had his rant. Obviously, agents talk to players, and rumors are all around the league, and I feel that Randy kind of knew about this, probably during Week 1. ...
Third-round compensation -- I think that's pretty legit. I think that's a pretty equal payout for Randy. Randy is obviously getting old now. Some people would argue that he’s not a complete receiver. A lot of times, teams want a receiver that blocks and catches and does all the other things that receivers do -- I know some seventh-round receivers that can be a lot more valuable than the things that Randy does. Troy Brown is one of those guys that was an eighth-round pick.
