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Money matters All-Pro WR Moss doesn't play like a $100M man
Updated: Friday June 08, 2001 10:36 AM
Memo to Minnesota owner Red McCombs: Be very, very careful before you pay Randy Moss the big money. In fact, I'd advise you strongly not to do it. Moss, the great but flighty wide receiver entering the last year of his contract this fall, said this week he would ask to become the highest-paid player in football. He said he wanted a signing bonus of $18 million to $20 million, in a deal averaging upwards of $10 million a year. Strip away all the silly stuff in the Drew Bledsoe and Brett Favre contracts, and such a deal would make Moss the richest man in football. The problem: Moss, too often, is bored with football. He jakes it on far too many plays. Just ask the Giants how pedestrian a player Moss was in the biggest game of his professional life, the NFC title game, last winter. Two catches, 18 yards, blah effort. This is a man you want to spend 15 to 20 percent of your salary cap on? Huge mistake, Vikings.
CBA does right by veteran playersThe smartest part of the new collective bargaining agreement -- the league and the players union have a tentative deal to extend labor peace through 2007 -- is giving the veterans a salary-cap break. Too many of them are grousing that the cap forces contributing players with good football left in them to play for the veteran minimum of $477,000. Under the new system, teams will be able to pay players an unspecified sum above that through a league pool of veteran money -- while counting only the minimum number on the club's cap. Smart idea. Kudos to New England owner Bob Kraft for advancing it through NFL bureaucracy.
Pats RB Edwards on comeback trailWhat an great comeback story Robert Edwards is writing in New England. After his 1,000-yard rushing season for New England as a rookie in 1998, Edwards suffered a severe knee injury with nerve damage in a beach football game, and no one with the Patriots thought it realistic that he'd be able to continue his career. But as head coach Bill Belichick watched Edwards at his first active minicamp since the injury this week, he marveled at his condition. He can do what everyone else at his position does. His story's an inspiration to all of us. Can he play when the bullets start flying? The Patriots will give him every chance, but the big question is how much game speed Edwards has lost from the crippling injury. The team won't know that until full pads go on at training camp this summer.
Carrier still facing league rulingSo, you want an aging safety with a year or two of experienced football left in him? Former NFL interceptions leaders Mark Carrier, cut by Washington this week, might be your man. Except it looks like Carrier will be playing a 12- or 14-game season, at best. The league has yet to rule on yet another Carrier suspension for a hit outside the rules late last season, and any team asking the league about him is being told not to count on Carrier for the full season. Sports Illustrated senior writer Peter King covers the NFL beat for the magazine and is a regular contributor to CNNSI.com.
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