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Randy Moss RELEASED by Vikes?

#47
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A crap organization makes another crap decision....first signing him, then releasing him. The implosion continues. I LOVE IT!!!!!:D

Doesn't really matter though....the queens are 2-5, and 80 percent of their front running fans will stop buying tickets and going to games.......It'll be the 90's all over again when 50 percent of the baggy dome will be Packer fans!
 
#51
I have watched the Vikings for decades. They are the team we love to hate. I don't think there's one brain cell in the entire organization. They will continue to SUCK until thy decide to dump all the old guys, has been's and used to be's and learn how to draft and put together a team.

They tried to buy a Superbowl title and it exploded in their face. As with anything in life worth having, you have to WORK for it. The whole country needs to just boycott professional sports for a year or two until we can figure out that in the big scope of things, all this is meaningless.
 
#52
If you want a talented player with a challenging personality on your roster, you need two things - a strong coach and strong veteran leadership. The leadership is more to keep the average players from grumbling about the difficult stars peculiarities.

And you can only have no more than one challenging personality per squad.

And it only works as long as the talent (and performance) outweights the effort to accomodate the quirks.

The Patriots had all the elements in place and Moss was a terrific contributor for 3 years. When the drama outweighed the performance, they cut him loose. The Vikings ignored the performance-drama equation and, it doesn't appear that they have the leadership to deal with one challenging personality let alone two.

Thanks Vikes for the #3 and the extra $3,000,000+!

PS - IIRC, Brady was a 6th rounder - :D
 
#53
Some Vikings players on board with dumping Moss

Posted by Mike Florio on November 2, 2010 9:33 AM ET

Though initial reports suggests that Vikings players generally disagreed with the decision to cut Randy Moss, Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports reports that, when coach Brad Childress explained the situation to the team, "several" nodded approval.

Though Randy's bizarre post-game press conference on Sunday was likely the catalyst for change, Silver reports that "Moss had alienated some of his teammates with his brash, entitled behavior, most glaringly in an incident that occurred in the team's locker room last Friday afternoon."

Moss, per Silver, berated workers from a local restaurant that catered the team's Friday afternoon meal.

"What the [expletive]?" Moss reportedly said. "Who ordered this crap? I wouldn't feed this to my dog!"

Here's how an eyewitness explained the situation to Silver: "It was brutal. The truth is, he deserved to be cut after that. It was such an uncomfortable moment. You know that feeling where you just can tell someone feels so small? That's what it was like being there.

"This wasn't a chain - it was a mom-and-pop restaurant, and you could tell it was their best stuff. They had a special carving station set up, and there were players and other support staff lining up to eat it. And [Moss] is at his locker saying, 'You know, I used to have to eat that crap -- but now I've got money.' You just felt so sad for them. I had never seen anyone treated like that.

"And by the way, the food was actually really good."

This kind of stuff is old hat for Moss, when his true nature isn't otherwise suppressed by playing on a team that is chasing a championship. The Vikings experienced the behavior during his first stint with the team, when he berated key sponsors on a team bus.

That's why, even though Childress may have made the right call, Childress should be blamed for bringing Moss to town in the first place. They knew or should have known that the guy is/was/always will be trouble. And now they've handed to the Patriots a third-round draft pick for the privilege of re-learning in a month something that the organization previously had seven seasons to figure out.
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/11/02/some-vikings-players-on-board-with-dumping-moss/

D-bag.
 
#54
That behavior at lunch is nothing new for people who live in the income bracket of Randy Moss. Big deal.

But hey, lets cut the guy since he was mean to some people who made lunch. A lunch that apparently Silver felt was real yummy.

-Mike
 
#55
bassrique said:
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/11/02/some-vikings-players-on-board-with-dumping-moss/

D-bag.
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First of all, keep in mind that Fellatio is a mouthpiece for the Vikes organization, and PFT IS Fellatio.

That said, yeah, Moss is a D-bag, but so is Mr. DIAT, Allen, and quite a few other Viking players. This is the culture they have accepted as "OK" on the team from ownership to management to coaching. They CHOSE to go after guys with this kind of (lack of) character, hoping that the talent they brought with them (and they all do indeed have talent) would outweigh the jerks they were as people and team mates.

There are good people that are on this team, but acceptance of this kind of behavior from ANY member of the team is a cancer that will eventually get out of hand and KILL a team.

This was brought to the fans up in MN by the owner, management, and coaching staff, and if you're a Vikings fan, you should be LIVID with them for this.

As for the team and organization itself, you're getting EXACTLY what you deserve.
 
#56
Not the first time the Viqueens have made a boneheaded deal to bring in a veteran player to supposedly get them to the "promised land", lol.

Does anyone else here remember twenty some years ago when the team gave up like a zillion picks to Dallas for Hershel Walker? He was the player they touted "the last spoke in the wheel to the super bowl". That deal got them no championship and they cut Walker a couple years later. All those draft picks helped Dallas become a dynasty in the nineties.

They gave up a third round pick now to New England for Moss and cut him a month later. Absurd stupidity on the part of Minn management. That's not the smart way to build your future, much less the present.
 
#57
MJ5150 said:
That behavior at lunch is nothing new for people who live in the income bracket of Randy Moss. Big deal.

But hey, lets cut the guy since he was mean to some people who made lunch. A lunch that apparently Silver felt was real yummy.

-Mike
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It's more than being a d-bag at lunch [most upper income/wealthy people don't act like that btw]. It's inappropriate behavior after the game -including but not limited to- not flying with the team. It's being a jerk in the locker room.

Gard said:
First of all, keep in mind that Fellatio is a mouthpiece for the Vikes organization, and PFT IS Fellatio.

That said, yeah, Moss is a D-bag, but so is Mr. DIAT, Allen, and quite a few other Viking players. This is the culture they have accepted as "OK" on the team from ownership to management to coaching. They CHOSE to go after guys with this kind of (lack of) character, hoping that the talent they brought with them (and they all do indeed have talent) would outweigh the jerks they were as people and team mates.

There are good people that are on this team, but acceptance of this kind of behavior from ANY member of the team is a cancer that will eventually get out of hand and KILL a team.

This was brought to the fans up in MN by the owner, management, and coaching staff, and if you're a Vikings fan, you should be LIVID with them for this.

As for the team and organization itself, you're getting EXACTLY what you deserve.
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I don't know about this Fellatio stuff, but I get your point. It's a poorly run organization.
 
#58
bassrique said:
[most upper income/wealthy people don't act like that btw]
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I agree. All I said is that type of behavior is nothing new. People who make the kind of money Moss does can be very demanding and have high expectations. When those are not met, you sometimes get what you had Moss doing.

Go ahead and hate on him for other reasons, but the lunchtime incident is no big deal really. Shoot, I have made a comment like that before about a meal that was served to me.

-Mike
 
#59
cheezewiz said:
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A crap organization makes another crap decision....first signing him, then releasing him. The implosion continues. I LOVE IT!!!!!:D

Doesn't really matter though....the queens are 2-5, and 80 percent of their front running fans will stop buying tickets and going to games......
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That's pretty much what happened in Tampa a few times in the past and is currently happening again.
 
#60
bassrique said:
I don't know about this Fellatio stuff, but I get your point. It's a poorly run organization.
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Fellatio = Mike Florio, who is really the PFT czar, and is a major Vikings fan, that does nothing to hide it. I know Silver wrote the article in question, but rest assured that Fellatio/Florio not only approved of it (as it tries to paint Moss in as negative a light as possible while deflecting any potential bad stuff about the Vikes), but probably edited it.

He's a big mouthed d-bag himself. Probably a worse human being than Moss. ;)

And yeah, the Vikings are, from top to bottom, one of the two or three most poorly-run organizations in the NFL. Pathetically bad.
 

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