Holeeee... !I saw one header on the ESPN website, requiring their "Insider" access (read: subscription - Feh!), describing the Patriots as looking to be "Scary Good." (And eatcher heart out, Chaatoes!)
Details of a re-worked contract are yet TBD, but I cannot imagine the Patriots, who already have Dante Stallworth, Wes Welker, Kelly Washington, Reche Caldwell, Jabbar Gaffney, Chad Jackson, and Troy Brown at wideout, and who can only want but not need Moss, will load him up with incentive clauses, making damn sure he doesn't quit on plays where he's not the designated receiver, as has been his motus operandi for too many years, essentially such that they can kick him to the curb at a moment's notice.
Of course, that Moss would rework his contract only for the Pats could be an indication he's ready to play up to his pay grade, which means the Pats look to be, uhm, Scary Good!!
And, wheeeeee... !!
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Update: So many weapons; it is imagined here the Pats will go frequently with a 4-wideout spread offense (Oh, I forgot to mention their TEs Ben Watson and Kyle Brady), such that Laurence Maroney will be busting thru holes made for 18-wheelers.
Prediction: 2,000 yards for the NE #1 tailback, and 4,000 passing yards for Tom Brady. Garrrrr... !! So many weapons!!
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Update II: Posted on ESPN bulletin board:
"war_eagle32 (4/29/2007 at 10:58 AM)Bwahhhahahahahaha... !!
this is just unfair...we're going to have to put a league limit on how many times the patriots can win superbowls"
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Update III: Moss to take $6M paycut -- Woof!
"He agreed to restructure and/or extend his contract to consummate the deal. He was due base salaries of $9.25 million in 2007 and $11.25 million in 2008. The contract he agreed to with the Patriots reduced his pay for 2007 to $3 million."----------
Update IV: Bill Simmons has the perfect answer for the Chaatoeses (with whom I chortled on the phone this afternoon) of the world:
I'm even getting, "Congratulations, you guys are the new Yankees" e-mails, which is funny because there's a salary cap in football.
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I'm fairly certain that I did not make the comparison to the Yankees on the Pats account, though certainly on the Sox account where money knows no bounds. May the Yankees and Sox play an exhibition series on a Carnival cruise ship which has lost its way into an iceberg field somewheres just south of Greenland.
I keep envisioning the pained countenance of my uncle Stan in Cleveland, where St. Bill was affectionately known as "Belichoke." He (Belichick) still displays the same blank stare reminiscent of a stoned special Olympian that is indistinguishable from the undistinguished old days in crappy old Municipal Stadium…
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