Bad boys Owens, Moss looking good
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PRO FOOTBALL JERRY MAGEE
September 11, 2007
Week 1 in the NFL, plus one day: POST THOSE WANTED POSTERS
America has a fascination with outlaws. Ideally, they should come in pairs. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid made a pretty good pair. Bonnie and Clyde weren't bad. How would T.O. and Randy Moss grab you?
Score: Bad guys 1, other guys 0. Terrell Owens and Moss are not bad guys in the sense that authorities recognize, but in the NFL community they are, at the least, controversial guys. Together in Week 1, Owens for the Dallas Cowboys and Moss for the New England Patriots, they made the point that what some would regard as outrageous behavior off the field is not necessarily a bad thing.
Owens had just three receptions in the Cowboys' 45-35 conquest of the New York Giants, but they added up to 87 yards and included 22-and 47-yard touchdowns. Moss, meantime, took nine of Tom Brady's passes 183 yards in the Patriots' 38-14 shellacking of the New York Jets with one of his catches resulting in a 51-yard touchdown.
The surprise was Moss. When the Oakland Raiders delivered him to Bill Belichick for a fourth-round draft selection, sources in the East Bay said Moss, 30, no longer is the receiver he once was. In 2006, he had just 42 catches for the Raiders and was inactive through the team's final three games. Through his first summer in New England, he again was not seen, a hamstring injury idling him.
But he was ready on Sunday in Giants Stadium. “In players and talent, this is the best team I've been on,” Moss said. “The whole circle.”
PRO FOOTBALL JERRY MAGEE
September 11, 2007
Week 1 in the NFL, plus one day: POST THOSE WANTED POSTERS
America has a fascination with outlaws. Ideally, they should come in pairs. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid made a pretty good pair. Bonnie and Clyde weren't bad. How would T.O. and Randy Moss grab you?
Score: Bad guys 1, other guys 0. Terrell Owens and Moss are not bad guys in the sense that authorities recognize, but in the NFL community they are, at the least, controversial guys. Together in Week 1, Owens for the Dallas Cowboys and Moss for the New England Patriots, they made the point that what some would regard as outrageous behavior off the field is not necessarily a bad thing.
Owens had just three receptions in the Cowboys' 45-35 conquest of the New York Giants, but they added up to 87 yards and included 22-and 47-yard touchdowns. Moss, meantime, took nine of Tom Brady's passes 183 yards in the Patriots' 38-14 shellacking of the New York Jets with one of his catches resulting in a 51-yard touchdown.
The surprise was Moss. When the Oakland Raiders delivered him to Bill Belichick for a fourth-round draft selection, sources in the East Bay said Moss, 30, no longer is the receiver he once was. In 2006, he had just 42 catches for the Raiders and was inactive through the team's final three games. Through his first summer in New England, he again was not seen, a hamstring injury idling him.
But he was ready on Sunday in Giants Stadium. “In players and talent, this is the best team I've been on,” Moss said. “The whole circle.”
posted by The Gryphon at 8:43 PM
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