Randy for Randy

(This could potentially used on MSG.com)
Randy Moss WAS a superstar.

He was the next Jerry Rice with 4.4 speed, and set the NFL rookie record for touchdowns in a season with 17. He is the only receiver in NFL history to average a touchdown and 100 yards per game for an entire season and along with Rice, is the only receiver in NFL history to catch 17 or more touchdowns in multiple seasons.

Yet all it took to acquire him, nine years later, was a fourth round draft pick that the New England Patriots did not own when the 2007 NFL Draft began. Consider this: Wes Welker, a glorified special teams player and “Belichick styled” slot receiver was acquired for a 2nd and 7th round pick earlier in the off-season.

The question that all NFL fans want to know is can Randy Moss become, well, Randy Moss?

The answer is that it does not matter.

Moss was slated to make 9.75 million dollars this year as a Raider, but will only make three million as a Patriot, while Welker will earn three times that this season.

Signing Moss to a one-year contract ensures that if he decides to moon the Gillette Stadium faithful, or re-create a New England styled “Randy Ratio,” he need only ask Doug Gabriel, his good friend, what will happen to him.

The worst-case scenario is that Moss cannot co-exist with Bill Belichick and Brady and walks away with his three million dollars (1/3 of what he would have made in Oakland). Best-case scenario? He falls in rank with the other Patriots and emerges as his old-self leading “Brady’s Bunch” to the post-season.

To call that a win-win for Robert Kraft and the Patriots organization would be quite an understatement.