Goodbye Duante

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

You didn't watch any of the games. All the coverage rolled to Moss and others guys were wide open. Some of Culpepper's biggest games came in losing efforts. In the 3 games Moss didn't play - they lost the first two - and needed two late touchdowns to beat the hapless Lions 22-19 in the other.

A decrepid Randell Cunningham, who had been out of the leauge for a few years prior, won the entire leauge MVP. An over-the-hill Jeff George was voted to the Pro Bowl and put up huge numbers in his lone 3/4 of a season with the Vikes as a starter.

Todd Bowman and Gus Ferrote - who both started two or three games apeice for the Vikes both won NFC Offensive player of the week awards as Vikes QBs with Moss.

Moss isn't an underneath or over the middle guy - he's a vertical guy who opens the field and creates mis matches all over. He doesn't need to have a single pass thrown his way to have a huge impact on the game.

Culpepper ran him out of Minny after 2004 - and now it's nice to see the agent/qb/imbecile out of the leauge.

If your position is that Moss was more respsonible for Daunte's success than vise versa, i agree. If it is that Moss was the catalyst for Minny from the time he was there until he left, then i also agree with that. He is in my mind the most talented receiver ever to step foot on a field.

But to say that Daunte was never any good? That to me is just a bad opinion that ignores obvious facts. Bad QB's dont have seasons like 2004 especially without their top WR producing. Its that simple.