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Originally Posted by philcski
And Randy Moss is the definition of misfit.
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A misfit is someone that can't fit into their surroundings.
He wanted out of Minny because the old owner Red McCombs was notoriously the cheapest bastard in the NFL. The Vikings were the only team in the NFL who were way under the salary cap. He paid Moss and Culpepper and no one else. The Vikings - in 2003 - actually let the time expire on their first round pick because they wanted to sign him for less money.
Do you get how cheap that is? We don't want to pay the guy we want top 10 money - so we'll let the clock run out and have other teams race to the podium to get their picks in ahead of us... and we'll take our guy several picks later so we can sign him for less.
That team was going nowhere because they had the worst defense in football. McCombs gave Moss his trade wish but sold the team a few months later.
Moss wanted out of Oakland because the offensive line couldn't block anyone. He could have stayed and made $11 million in 2007 - instead he ripped up the contract to get out and played for less than half of that with the Pats. The reason more teams didn't want him - is because they didn't want to pay him $11 million - he was only going to shred the contract to play in a good situation.
Calling him a misfit for getting out of two horrible situations in Minny and Oakland is silly. He paid the price for leaving Oakland. He should have just stayed in Minny though and waited that cheap scumbag Red McCombs out.