Can't help but pick on Loony Sid today (click on cartoon for easier to read pop-up):

And for those new readers who wonder why I refer to Brad Childress as "Chilly" and not "Chili", please read this blog entry.

Speaking of Loony

On Sunday, I stated how brilliant Randy Moss was by waiting on inking his renewal with the Patriots based on the fact that the Vikes chose to make the likes of Bernard Berrian the 4th highest paid WR...in the NFL. I'm not so sure based on a report I read at PFT:

"According to John Clayton of ESPN.com, Moss reached out to Culpepper on Saturday night about the possibility of "finishing what they started" in Minnesota on a new team.

Clayton cautions not to interpret such a move as a "package deal." But what the hell is it then?

If Moss is doing this only to persuade other teams that he's truly willing to leave New England, then it's sort of brilliant. We're convinced that teams are leery of making Moss the kind of offer that might get his attention due to fears that he'd then turn around and use that proposal to leverage the Pats into putting more money on the table.

If, in contrast, Moss is doing it because he genuinely wants to go to a new team that would sign Culpepper and install him as the starting quarterback, it's one of the stoopidest things we've ever heard."

PFT goes on and considers who may be interested in such a Moss-sprinkled with-Pepper Deal:

"A quick look at the list of the 32 teams reveals not many teams that even could be interested in such a move. As we see it, the possibilities are Baltimore, Denver (hey, we don't put anything past Coach Kevlar when it comes to free agency), Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Tampa, and St. Louis, where the head coach was the offensive coordinator the last time Moss and Culpepper were on the same team."

Well, as long as we're all being loony today, why shan't the Vikes be considered? The Vikes are looking for a backup QB, right? The Vikes are considering adding Javon Walker to the WR mix as well.....why not go for the jugular and attain Moss instead? Pepper still has an arm. When's the last time you saw a Vikes QB actually throw a deep ball to a WR without having the duck hunters in attendance stand and air-rifle the ball out of existence? I can tell you when:

Pepper will be two years into his knee recovery which is the time it takes for a athlete to both recover and regain confidence in himself. Why not take a chance? Only one thing stands in their way. A certain bridge was burned between Pepper and the current head coach of the Vikes.

So unless someone were to work on Chilly Willy and warm him up to consider it, it simply isn't going to happen. No matter how loony you consider the proposition to be.

Vote in the Loony Poll below: Would you like 'em back or no (never mind the probablity factor...would you take them or not)?

Posted by briankeithmaas@msn.com at March 3, 2008 01:01 AM