After throwing a 3rd round pick at Randy Moss 4 weeks ago, the Vikings have cut the future hall-of-famer from their roster.

In 4 games, Moss had 13 catches for 174 yards and 2 TD’s. He blew a couple of easy for Moss type catches that would have earned the Vikings another win.

This come just hours after Moss made some pretty ridiculous statements to the media on Sunday after the game. He pretty much just talked about how great Belichick was and how awesome of an organization the Patriots were. He also threw in a couple of jabs at the Vikings effort on and off the field. Here’s the transcription of some of his statements:

“Let me hold it down. I really haven’t had a chance to talk to the guys, so this is no disrespect to the Minnesota Vikings and their organization. The captains, Vince Wilfork, Tom Brady, Jerod Mayo, Kevin Faulk, I miss those guys. I miss the team. It was hard for me to come here and play. It has been an up-and-down roller-coaster emotionally all week. Then to be able to come in here and see those guys and running plays that I know what they’re doing. The success they had on the field – the running game – so I kind of know what type of feeling they have in their locker room and I just want to be able to tell the guys that I miss the hell out of them, every last helmet in that locker room. Deion Branch came up to me after the game and I have never really had the chance to meet Deion Branch, but it was definitely a pleasure to meet him. Coach Belichick gave me an opportunity to be a part of something special and that is something I really take to heart. I actually salute Coach Belichick and his team for the success that they have had before me, during me and after me. So I am actually stuck for words, just because there are a lot of memories here.

“To the New England Patriots’ fans, that ovation at the end of the game, that really felt heart-warming. I think I actually shed a tear for that. Like I said, it has been an emotional roller-coaster this whole week. I tried to prepare; tried to talk to the coaches and players about how this game was going to be played – a couple tendencies here and a couple tendencies there. But the bad part about it, you have six days to prepare for a team and on the seventh day, that’s Sunday, meaning today, I guess they come over to me and say, ‘Dang Moss, you were right about a couple plays and a couple schemes that they were going to run.’ It hurts as a player that you put a lot of hard work in all week and toward the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that is when they acknowledge the hard work you have put in all week. So that is a disappointment.

“You know, I can’t really say enough about this team and this organization. I met with Mrs. Kraft before the game, because I didn’t really have a chance to talk to her before I left, and I just thank Mrs. Kraft for the opportunity to let me be a part of something special. The New England Patriots have always been a special organization, and I have always watched from afar.

“When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple of weeks ago, I felt obligated to try and bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota, and this season is still not over. Do I know what next season and the future is going to bring? No I do not, but all I can say is that it is a lot of work that we leave on the field each day. There is a lot of film study that we leave in that room each day. I know how hard these guys work here in New England and the only thing that I really tried to do was take what the best coach in football history has brought upon me, or the knowledge that he has given me about the game of football, and I try to just sprinkle it off to the guys the best way I know how. So I am going to go ahead and end this interview. I have my family to see.

“I am definitely down that we lost this game, because I didn’t really expect us to lose this game knowing that we had a few things that we had to clean up. But like I said, they played a good game. I wish we could have had that three at the end of the half. Maybe it could have been different, maybe not. I don’t know how many more times I am going to be up here in New England, but I am going to leave the New England Patriots and Coach Belichick here with a salute.

“I love you guys. I miss you. I’m out.”

Out indeed. This feels more like the Moss we knew and love at the end of his time in Minnesota and throughout his entire time in Oakland.

Couple this with Childress taking jabs at Favre last week, and you ahve a recipe for disaster for a team struggling for wins and losing hopes for playoffs.

Randy Moss has been traded to the Vikings for a 3rd round pick in 2011.

Apparently there was some conflict with Moss and the QB coach. For the Patriots, they get another big draft pick, and the Vikings get the most talented WR ever, back on their team.

Favre lobbied to get the Packers to trade for Moss 5 years ago when Moss was traded to Oakland. Now he’s finally got his man.  Sydney Rice, who?

After the Oakland stint, people forgot how good Moss was. Then, when he teamed up with Tom Brady, Brady got all the credit. You’ll see now, this closes down the New England offense big time, and Brady’s game will take a big hit.

The receivers now look a whole lot like the plethora of guys they were spreading the ball to during Brady’s first Superbowl run.

Moss will play against the Jets on Monday night. Darrell Revis will not be playing.

Sam Bradford just agreed to a ridiculous contract that makes Jamarcus Russell look like a bargain. Bradford agreed to a 6 year, 78 million dollar deal, with 50 million guaranteed. 50 MILLION!!!

How ridiculous is this contract for a player who has been continuously injured in college and didn’t even play for his team much this season? Well, Tom Brady, coming off his third Super Bowl victory in February 2005, signed a 6-year, 66 million dollar contract similar to the extensions Vick and Manning received around the same time.

This made Brady one of the top 10 highest paid players in the game. He also restructured his contract a few years later to save the patriots money to sign Randy Moss and others, so he didn’t even see that much.

Bradford is getting 13 million more base, and can make up to 86 million total.  That 86 million is very close to what Philip Rivers just got, and he’s a top 5 QB in the league, and was at the time, too.  It is 12 million more than Aaron Rodgers got after his first year of starting in 2008.

The NFL has gotten out of control.  The #1 pick is a curse money wise, and there absolutely no way Bradford can live up to that contract short of a 14-2 season and a Super Bowl NEXT YEAR.

These kinds of things make me want a lockout next summer.  If the players really think rookies are this valuable, I can almost guarantee there isn’t going to be a new CBA deal done.

So after the Patriots vs. Panthers game this past weekend, everyone who has ever watched sports has put an opinion into this Moss ‘quitting’ situation. Well I was of course watching the game, and said myself multiple times: “Ok, this guy is finally quitting on the Patriots.” And that interception that Gamble had was because of a weakly run route (and a lofted pass).

“We knew he was going to shut it down,” Panthers cornerback Chris Gamble said after the game. “That’s what we wanted to do him. That’s what we did. … He’d just give up a lot … Slow down, he’s not going deep, not trying to run a route. You can tell, his body language.” Gamble continued … “I know everyone who plays against him, they can sense that. Once you get into him in the beginning of the game, he shuts it down a little bit.”

All of this is true, if Moss isn’t involved early, he’ll shut it down a little bit (see Terrell Owens or NBA defense). But some of the best analysis of Moss in this game was given by Merrill Hoge and Steve Young (ESPN’s best football minds, in my opinion). Hoge says he watched the tape and it was Moss’ hardest fought game hes ever seen, including route running. And those two had the Gamble interception spot on.

First of all, Peppers came flying at Brady, so he threw the ball early and off of his back foot so the ball floated up for the defender. Gamble was playing an outside route defense, which is dangerous for the QB on the out route. Moss saw this, and knew Brady wouldn’t throw the pass into that kind of coverage to Moss, so maybe he didn’t run the route as hard as he could/should and it resulted in a pick. But receivers often know when and when they are not getting the ball on certain plays/coverages, and take a couple plays off. Sprinting 20 yards full out every minute for 180 minutes is not an easy task, so that is justified.

End of story, as much as I dislike the Patriots and hope for all the turmoil in the world to come upon them, Moss deserves a break this time. From what I’ve seen hes been a great player since leaving the horrid situation in Oakland and playing HOF football. But just for fun, can we go ahead and speculate that Moss DID QUIT, and its because he is jealous of Wes Welker being the most influential and game changing WR’s in the league? Rumor, begun.