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Originally Posted by Rain Man
The bigger story to me is why New England traded him. Quitting on Minnesota can easily be explained by pouting. But Moss makes it sound like he really liked playing in New England, and it's not like going to the Raiders where he had no shot at winning.
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Randy felt the Pats weren't respecting him by not offering him a new contract. But both sides knew that Randy wanted more than the Pats would be willing to commit. So he started grumbling a bit about it being his last season in New England. Then apparently Belichick and the Vikes started talking (don't know who initiated it). So Belichick had two choices:
1.) Keep Moss, let him possibly develop into a distraction, and get nothing for him at the end of the year, or...
2.) Trade Moss and get something.
And they got a 3rd. Hell, they only gave up a 4th to get him, IIRC.
They also had an issue of Brady starting to develop tunnel vision on Moss. Which, to be honest, was more Brady's problem than Moss's.
So Moss moved on to Minnesota, took one look around the locker room and at Childress, and realized, "Holy shit, it's horrible here." He realized that Childress is a suck-ass coach and the Vikes are a badly-run organization, and he realized how much better he'd had it in New England.
The thing about KC is that it's probably one of the few places he would be able to exist, because Haley is Mini-Belichick, the team is winning and has strong defensive and run-game components, they have strong coordinators with winning reputations, and he wouldn't have to be the main man. I think he'd fit beautifully there.