Can Moss Succeed?

Posted on November 27, 2010 by James W

Can Randy Moss really make it work in Tennessee? The enigmatic wide out was claimed by the Tennessee Titans off waivers from the Minnesota Vikings. The claiming of Moss was a smart move by the Titans who were in desperate need of a deep threat after their burgeoning star Kenny Britt was sidelined with a hamstring injury. Moss, when motivated to do so, is a tremendous presence on the outside. The Titans have a bye week this week so it will give Moss time to understand the system and with four of their last six games against the division rivals the Colts and the Texans the Titans will need Moss. The real question is does Moss need them?

It would seem that if Moss wants to keep playing football he needs to make good in Tennessee. During the glory days of New England Moss was a model player and teammate. He had erased the idea that he was a rather petulant child. Moss, as it turned out, wore out his welcome after a while prompting the New England brass to ship Moss back to his home team of Minnesota. There was a kind of poetic justice of him coming back to help teammate Brett Favre do something that Randy Moss had never been able to do on the Vikings, and that’s help them win a Super Bowl. But as quickly as Moss entered the equation he left the equation. He berated a caterer after his last game and gave an equally strange press conference talking about how much he missed the Patriots.

Moss knows that in order to get the money he wants that he will need to keep his mouth shut and play as well as he has in his life. If that happens the Titans will be a serious super bowl threat.