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New England Patriots vs. Minnesota Vikings 2010

Monday’s after a short vacation are never fun. As we get our bearing let’s kick off today with part one of the Pats vs. Vikes from Halloween this year. This had to be a top five highlight game of 2010. The atmosphere of Halloween, the return of Randy Moss and Myron Pryor delivering a punishing blow to Brett Favre that most of the NFL surely enjoyed.

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NFP: Q & A with Patriots Ron Brace

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NFP: Q & A with Patriots Ron Brace

I like what I’m hearing out of Brace in this interview, hopefully he can get healthy and be ready to go when football returns.

It’s been an interesting two years for Brace. Based on his size everyone kind of assumed he was nothing more than Wilfork insurance at nose tackle. But last year, after finally passing his physical (is that what he’s referring to in this interview?) he saw a lot of time entirely at left defensive end.

In fact Brace said it was really the only position that he played in training camp, so it will be interesting to find out if that’s really where he projects or if it was solely due to Ty Warren’s injury.

Brace definitely showed some flashes, the most impressive of which had to be the 4th down goal line stop of Adrian Peterson.

No Chance Moss Comes Back to Pats

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I’ve been surprised to see how much buzz “Moss Back To Pats” is generating. Of course it’s all speculation, especially since Moss seemed to miss New England so much during his post game press conference.

But why did New England get rid of Moss in the first place? Was it just so they could get a 3rd round pick instead of nothing if we walked as a free agent? Or was it to eliminate a growing distraction from their locker room?

I think both of these factors played into the decision to trade Moss but possibly the biggest factor was the fact that the Patriots offense is evolving into a team that no longer wanted or needed Moss.

Yes Moss is a deep threat who pulls coverage, but as we’ve seen a lot of times that’s just about all he does. The Patriots won quite a few games with Moss doing just that, sometimes without Moss making a significant or meaningful catch. 

But the time had come to evolve on offense, and as we’ve seen over the last three games the Patriots haven’t exactly missed Moss as much as he misses them.

Everyone loves a coming home story like the one we had with Deion Branch, but the option of brining back Randy Moss makes zero sense at this point.

What message would that send to the Patriots organization? It would make it seem as if they only traded him so they could get some kind of compensation for him. While that might’ve been a factor, it was probably the smallest factor of them all. 

Or do they suddenly think that all the Randy Moss distractions are behind him? I doubt it. I loved watching Moss, but he was high maintenance both on and off the field, and the Patriots team now feels more cohesive without him.

The Randy Moss era with the New England Patriots is over. We can appreciate all the great things he did, but we’re never going back. Even if no one else wants him.