Any NFL team that holds a pair of untested backup QB's is about going to have their starting qb be their teams most valuable player if they are halfway decent. The Pats #2 QB, he was a backup his ENTIRE college career! I believe his last start came in high school.
You could plug in a half dozen NFL QB's into that offense and they will put up Brady's numbers. You can't plug in a another NFL reciever to replace Moss, and expect not just Brady, but any NFL qb to put up those numbers.
While both have great numbers in the postseason, Brady has won Super Bowls without Moss - and Moss hasn't won them without Brady - However, Moss has been on MANY better offenses than Brady has.
Look, people forget how downright pathetic some of those Minnesota Vikings defenses were in the Moss era in Minnesota. No team is winning a championship with truly the leauges worst defense year in and year out.
In Minny they paid Moss A lot of money, they paid his Moss Made fraud QB Culpepper A LOT of money, and they were almost always the team most under the cap and spending the least money. They had a defense only the Tampa Bay Devil Rays could envy.
Brady is very under-paid, NE spends money, and spends it smart - and they always have had a very tough defense.
Once the Pats get a lead, Moss is just going through the motions effort wise right now - and he has been for much of the season.
He's had hamstring injuries four years in a row - though, his hammy injury this year came before the season and not during it.
I believe he's a different player off of rest - look at week 1 against the Jets when he played sparingly and put up monster numbers. Look at his 4 first half TD receptions against Buffalo off of the bye week.
I know a lot of the talking heads are saying he might be much less effective in the snow, but he had that 3 TD performance in the snow when he won the MAC Championship at Marshall...when everyone said the slow field would neutralize him.
A full sixty minutes of a hungry and healthy Randy Moss...even a little older and slower now....if one of those backups can even remotely play I think this team would win a Super Bowl without Brady....just as they would still be the favorite to do without Moss.
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