Personally, I hope not. Because I took Randy Moss in the first round of my fantasy draft. And I didn't draft Randy Moss so that I could bench Randy Moss.
But with his meager stats from the past couple weeks have a lot of football honks wondering, "will Randy Moss shut it down?"
Disclaimer: I didn't see the New England - Miami game yesterday, so I can't account for his actions during that game. So this post is chock full of speculation.
Moss's past transgressions are clear. He didn't like playing in Oakland for the Raiders. So basically, he quit playing for the Raiders. He loafed on a lot of plays. He refused to go over the middle. He really wasn't going to take a big hit for his pathetic football team.
And the present status of the Patriots is clear: Randy Moss came to New England to play with Tom Brady because he wanted to win. Now the Golden Boy is hurt and Randy is catching passes (on occasion, at least) from career (and that includes college, by the way) back-up quarterback Matt Cassel.
As I mentioned before, since I didn't see the game agains Miami I can't speak from first hand experience, but I've heard talk of him not going after balls, not blocking and generally loafing when the ball wasn't headed his way. And his stats appear to back that up, in his last two games he's had six catches for 47 yards and no touchdowns.
But the New England offense has been a little pathetic lately without Brady under center (or in the shotgun). So maybe his reduced stats are reflective of the weakening of the team as a a whole.
It's also possible that Moss is taking on extra coverage now that teams have seen a years worth of film of him in a Patriot uniform.
Whatever the reason, the thing to remember is that Bill Belichick is a master motivator. He turned spygate into a perfect regular season. If anyone can get Randy Moss to catch passes from Matt Cassel it's the hoodie.
...or maybe no one can convince Randy Moss to actually try in a losing effort.
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Belichick has everyone believing he's a master motivator, we'll see how true this all is. He's got something like a 40-53 career record with QBs not named Brady.
And yes, I'd be concerned from a fantasy perspective. The problem is not so much convincing Moss to catch passes from Cassell, the problem is that Cassell seems to be afraid (or not allowed) to stretch the field, so it may be difficult to give Moss enough activity to keep him interested.
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