Are We Better Off Without Moss?

I have been toying with the notion that outside of Moss' first year here he looks more like a deadly slot guy than a #1. To me a speed guy and game breaker like him should be downfield busting up secondaries or getting WR screens. Not being relied on as the go to guy play in and play out. He isn't a possession guy and isn't as dominant as I'd like in a #1. I still think is great when healthy but I just thinks he fits better in a supporting type roll. I'd even move ARE to #1 where he can run slants and mid outs and hooks and let Moss press the secondary it just seems like a better fit to me. He certainly doesn't fit the traditional mold of a #1.

If Moss is healthy, hell no we're not better without him. The guy stretches the field if Gibbs/Saunders give him a chance to do so. I've counted 3 times this year that Campbell has missed him for wide open TD bombs. The way Campbell looked today, I have faith that Moss will make plays for us once he's healthy.

plain and simple, no

I think Moss is a bit of a head case at this point. All the drops and injuries, benching himself in the GB game... Look how well the passing game got going today with a few guys taller than 5-9 catching balls! Why not do a three WR mix of McCardell, Randle El, and Caldwell? Randle El had another bad drop today, but has still been solid. McCardell has looked great every time he's been in, and Caldwell has a lot of experience. Thrash was awesome today, but his knee injury looked bad. This is a lost season for Moss I think. If he's healthy you have to play him some (I'm not suggesting we bench him), but get the other guys in the mix like today. I'd say it's a safe bet we go after a bigger WR either in the draft or FA this offseason. Lloyd-Moss-El hasn't worked out.

Yeah, you hate to basically write off this wideout lineup, but to me, this was the make or break year for the Moss/Lloyd/Randle El experiment.

This season, it's been an utter disaster. Since pass protection has generally been good, you can't put this one on offensive line injuries either. Maybe it's the development curve of Jason Campbell, but usually a team knows whether or not this combination of QB and receivers are going to work out. Year two should be when things begin to take off.

How ironic that after hearing that no wide receiver on the team has caught a touchdown yet, the one who finally does is way down the depth chart (and true to form for 2007, is probably gone for a long time due to injury).

no we need moss\, we sure can do without lloyd that for sure. this was his chance to step and it he didnt. unfortually like spings he always injured. so that kills the team.

That's the problem with having small recievers, they are more injury prone.

I don't know if we're better off without him, but the more comfortable Jason get's, I think he's less important to us, that's for sure. He seems like the type of guy that has to be 100% healthy to be effective. In other words, playing through injuries isn't his thing.

I think he's a Redskins next year for sure, but Jason is proving he doesn't need Moss on the field to get it done.

For some reason it seems Moss and JC just can't get on the same page. Now that Moss has spent the better part of the last 2 seasons banged up, I really think the team might look in another direction this offseason. I love the guy and he's a big play WR when healthy, but we need a guy that's going to be on the field more often than not.

I think Moss and ARE are too similar. Both are homerun hitters who will drop an easy pass occasionally or falter when less than 90%. They also provide the electrifying and game changing plays that SportsCenter was made for. When the two of them are your starters there is no possesion move the chains guy (save for Cooley who ends up having too often to block on 3rd down).

Injuries have derailed him this year, to start the year off him and Campbell were connecting on those deep balls, remember the 49 yard gem against the Giants? We knew before we traded for him, or at least we should have known, that he is a bit injury prone. But when healthy he is definitely a #1 WR, or have we forgotten he did make the Pro Bowl a couple years back?

I'm confused, how is Thrash's good game a black mark on Moss? That's like Bett's production last year reflecting poorly on Portis, and neither one make sense to me. These are good things, if anything when Moss gets healthy that means Thrash as the #3 wideout makes our offense even better, or am I missing the point?