The Vikings paid a bargain basement price for Pro Bowl receiver Randy Moss -- a third round pick. Should the Browns have offered that much -- or more -- to the Pats for him in a bid to aid their anemic receiving corps?
View full sizeRandy Moss drew the wrath of the NFL for pretending to moon the Green Bay crowd during a playoff game in 2005. Now, he'll be mooning -- figuratively speaking, of course -- the rest of the league when he's united with Brett Favre in Minnesota.For AFC rivals, that's a bad bingo: It means the Pats will have two picks in each of the first four rounds of the 2011 draft. As if the Super Bowl contenders needed to reload.
Couldn't the Browns have done something similar, though? And considering that the Browns' third-round pick is likely to be higher than the Vikings, since picks are based on finishes in the standings, wouldn't Cleveland have been a more attractive offer?
It's not like the Browns have an overly productive corps of wideouts. Between them, Josh Cribbs, Chansi Stuckey and Mohammad Massaquoi have 26 catches and two touchdowns. Moss this season only has nine catches, but three were for scores. And in the three years and four games he's played with Tom Brady and the Pats, he's hauled in 50 touchdowns.
Yeah, what a stiff.