The Fins gave up 500 yards to the lowly Chiefs offense. They will probably lose on the road to the Jets next week.
Way more importantly than making any playoff games, Moss is tied with Boldin for the NFL lead in recieving touchdowns with one week to go.
He was the outright leauge leader in receving TD's in '98, '00, '03, and '07. If he wins it this year, I think it would be the 5th different starting qb he's won it with. I think Cunningham started 13 or 14 games off the bench in '98, I think Jeff George started 10 games off the bench in '00, Culpepper started 14 games and Gus Frerotte started the other 2 in '03, Tom Brady played the full season in '07, and Matt Cassell played all but one quarter this season so far.
Cassell has avg'd 35 points a game for his last 6 games, and has a shot to win 11 games and throw for over 4K yards this year. I pity the team that is suckered into going after him next year. It's funny how good qb's look when safeties have to play deep and roll to Moss on every play.
Just go shotgun, spread the field with recievers in 4 and 5 wideout sets, and exploit all the big mis-matches underneath with the other recievers. Hand the ball off out of a shotgun spread and avg 7 yards a run with your 3rd and 4th and 5th string rb's because the safety is way out of position. And if the defense wants to do something about taking away the rinky dink stuff they will have to cover Moss the legit way or else hope he drops a bunch of easy catches like he has been doing a lot of lately.
When Brady comes back -if the O-line is consistant with their pass blocking - and the defense stays halfway healthy - they will make another run at 19-0 and break their own scoring record. Because of all the big D injuries, the spotty O-line play, the Brady injury, and the wildly inexpierienced qb without a good deep ball asked to replace Brady ... this has been totally a lost year for the Pats.
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