Hoarding for ______________?

First of all I wanted to send a shout out to a fellow sports fan who if I remember correctly is more of a basketball fan and a pretty darn good basketball player at that. Devin Paul this one is for you. Thanks for reading. Now on with the show.

If you are a fan of the NFL, Yahoo, or any news outlet by now I am sure you have all heard that one Randy Moss formerly of the Vikings, Raiders, and now Patriots is headed back to Minnesota where he started it all. The Patriots announced that they had traded the 32-year-old for a third round pick. It was speculated that after Monday's Patriot win over the Dolphins that Moss would be traded since he didn't have a catch in the game. Moss has only caught 9 catches for the entire season thus far.

Of course when I first heard this all I could think of was Thanksgiving 1998 when the then rookie lit up the Cowboys for three touchdowns. Sour turkey that year anyone? Well I can't really say sour turkey was served that year because we went to some sort of stupid French place in California for dinner. This place was so bad that homeless people wouldn't except their money or their food. Gandhi himself had more to eat that year.

Then of course as I usually do I came to my senses and realized that if I were a Patriots fan I would be pretty upset by this trade. Bill Belichick is doing what he has done in the past. What is he doing? Well two things come to mind. One, they are hoarding draft picks for no good reason. They have two picks in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th rounds of the draft all next year. Even if they get decent talent from the upcoming this is a win now sort of league. Also I don't think the Patriots management has considered that their might be a lockout next season as well. Fans of course want to win now, coaches on other teams want to win now, but apparently not the Patriots. I guess winning the Super Bowl in 2001, 2003, 2004 and losing in 2007 is good enough for them.

Second, they are dumping salary which keeps Robert Kraft their owner from spending money on good players, but he's also not putting the best product on the field. I hate to break it to you guys but there's only one Tom Brady on your team and the rest of your picks can't all be Tom Brady. Brady is a talent yes, but he just got lucky back in 2001. If Drew Bledsoe didn't get hurt that year than Brady would probably not have won that first Super Bowl ring until 2003.

Oh yeah, let's not forget the Vikings. Brett Favre wanted a deep play receiver and he got one. That's another story of course.

I can't help of course going into Bill Belichick's past shall we. I'll need my Delorean for this trip again.

1993 - As Head coach of the Browns, releases beloved Bernie Kosar.

1996 - After a 5-11 season in Cleveland resigned and re-joined Bill Parcells. The Browns also moved to Baltimore without him and won a Super Bowl in 2000.

1999 - After being handpicked by Bill Parcells to replace him as head coach of the Jets resigned after only being on the job a few days.

2000 - Hired as Patriots head coach.

2001 - Won Super Bowl with Tom Brady after benching Pro-Bowler Drew Bledsoe. Belichick later traded Bledsoe to Buffalo.

2003 - Won Super Bowl again with Brady at Quarterback

2004 - Won Super Bowl for third time in four years.

2007 - Acquired all-pro wide-receiver Randy Moss. Yet lost Super Bowl after undefeated regular season 16-0.

2009 - Trades all-pro Richard Seymour for draft picks.

2010 - Trades all-pro Randy Moss for draft picks

I ran out of plutonium so I wasn't able to go into the future and see how this all plays out. I can tell you though to my knowledge the last time a big offensive player got either traded or released during a season by Belichick this happened.




I just hope for the Patriots sake they don't become the Patriots of old and not only start wearing the old logo again, but I also hope that their fans have gotten used to their teams doing well at the beginning of a century. Red Sox anyone?



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