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Originally Posted by avwjase
Wasn't Moss hurt last year as well? So I guess Culpepper is off the hook for last year since you're using it as an excuse for Collins. So, Culpepper basically had his best season of his career without Randy Moss. It was all C-Pep. That kinda dings your argument does it not?
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An excuse? I said Collins is playing poorly enough to get benched, so it doesn't sound like an excuse. The deal is that you don't have to make excuses for Collins' play, because he's not playing poorly.
Read that again. The deal is that, in this case, "poorly enough to get benched" does not mean that he's playing poorly. It just means that people expect a whole lot more than one of the best seasons of Collins career, and they expect that just because he has Moss, even if it's an injured Moss.
Moss this year and Moss last year have still had significant impacts despite injuries. You seem to be forgetting that Moss caught 1/3rd of Daunte's TD's last year (13 of 39), which was a greater proportion than Harrison to Manning (15 of 49). But yes, both C-Pep last year and Collins this year would be better off with a healthy Moss. I don't see what's provacative about that statement.
Anyway, all of these weird semantic hoops that you're trying to jump through aside, the bottom line is that Collins is having one of the best years of his career with Moss against a very, very tough schedule while Culpepper sucked ass.