Should Seattle Claim Randy Moss?

because I cursed the day we took Anthony Simmons as opposed to Randy Moss on draft day. I could see a wonderful combo of Moss deep and BMW underneath with Whitehurst slinging it to both. Make it so!

It’s also worth noting that (not that our franchise really needs to care about the cash) the Moss salary is pro-rated and will not cost the full $6.5M for the remainder of the year.

As a side note, instead of waiving Moss, I’m starting to think that Childress just waived himself.

Moss at the X, BMW at the Y and Tate/Stokely at the Z?

Moss could only be good news IF the Hawks benched Hass for CW AND CW can throw a good deep ball.

After yesterday, I’d be game to try…

but Randy Moss is a head case. Why would you want a guy on your team that quits on plays and has a gigantic ego? Dude takes his entire talent and opportunities for granted. Unless the plan is to get draft picks for him in some way, I would think it makes more sense to just stay away from the guy.

But I’m tired of Seattle teams getting superstars at the end of or past their primes. It seems that WR is the least of our worries right now.

Moss could just be one more canine in the mouth that is our offense, nibbling away down the field. Like that annoying friend everyone has who takes forever to finish his god damn sandwich. It’s a fucking sandwich. Finish it already.

would be a nightmare for the opposing corners. Two big receivers with good hands.

…that you have to claim him. He doesn’t mortgage anything, and the whole “black eye” for Pete Carroll is, to me, irrelevant. He has a lot capital right now, I say he use it.

Translation: hello, Jerry Jones.

I would rather have a healthy O-line than Moss but since that isn’t really an option I’ll definitely take Moss and the potential of picking up a draft pick over what we’ve got now.

We really don’t need his distraction… I’d also deeply discount the ability to franchise him after the season. Two pretty respective franchises in the last 3 weeks have decided he’s not worth their trouble, and I’m pretty sure there are better, younger players that we’d rather put the tag on.

That’s the max for a 10 year vet.

Though not really publicized, I think Carrol has shown that he’s willing to put players on the inactive list for games that don’t perform in practice or up to his standards. Golden Tate, for one.

I don’t know much about Moss’s precision route running, but he still has dangerous speed. He might make for a good screen option for Hasselbeck, or more conventionally if CW takes the field. He comes with no strings attached, no long-term committments, and a relatively cheap salary. I don’t think Seattle is really hurting for receivers, but one more can never hurt. Teamed up with Williams, he can give Seattle a real one-two punch, though again, this relies on having a QB that can take advantage of Moss’s speed and range. Branch and Housh didn’t magically become slower or more inept when they came to Seattle, but it sure seemed that way. I worry that for all the benefits, Moss will become another face in the crowd.

But if nothing else, we can hold onto him on the inactive list or in a slot position where he can’t really hurt anything. Tossing him after the season nets us a comp pick, while trading him will likely get us something similar. Though I have to wonder, if Seattle claims him off waivers where half the teams have already passed picking him up for free, does he still have value as trade bait? After paying what we did for Lynch out of next year’s choices, I’m all for restocking our draft lineup, but I think a 4th-round pick might be generous once the offseason rolls around.

In any power struggle between Moss and PC, Moss will lose. Worse case scenario is that he comes in, underperforms, starts talking smack about Hasselbeck’s arm or O line support, and gets the boot within 3-4 weeks, in which case we’re out his pro-rated salary and the goodwill of however many fans bought Seahawks Moss jerseys. Best-case is that he performs decently through the rest of the season, keeps his muzzle on, and looks to get traded with decent value in the offseason. I can’t really see a scenario where we try to hold onto him long term, or longer than a year-to-year basis. Once we fall into that trap, when his demons rear their ugly heads, then we become forced to part ways while liable for guaranteed money and watch as Moss, Branch-like, signs elsewhere for the league minimum and we end up subsidizing some other team’s new WR.

Carroll would have to bench Hasselbeck in favor of Clipboard Jesus ( is that what we’re calling him? I keep hearing Black Label Society singing Doomsday Jesus in my head, but its Clipboard Jesus… “Clipboard Jesus we need you now”).

I just watched a montage of CW at Clemson and he could definitely throw the deep ball. However, he might come out like a 49er QB and set records in suck. I’m not a fan of the messiah way of football, but I think Moss might give CW what he needs to be successful. But chances are good that starting CW would just result in another variety of suck.

I read that Percy Harvin was very upset at the Vikings for letting Moss go. Apparently he was mentoring Harvin.

We have two young, talented WRs. They certainly could use mentoring.

I say bring Moss in.

Although, I understand that the Rams would have the option of signing him before us anyways, so it’s a moot point.