Vikings waive Moss just four weeks after acquiring WR in trade
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- Published: <ABBR id=article-time class=value title=2010-11-01T12:20:43-0700>Nov. 1, 2010 at 03:20</ABBR>
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Minnesota Vikings waived wide receiver
[URL="http://www.madjacksports.com/players/randymoss/profile?id=MOS699912"]Randy Moss[/URL] Monday, NFL Network's Michael Lombardi reports.
Moss did not fly back to Minnesota with the team following a 28-18 loss to the
New England Patriots Sunday, according to Lombardi.
Moss, acquired by the Vikings in a trade with the New England Patriots following Week 4, appeared in just four games with Minnesota in 2010, catching 13 passes for 174 yards and two touchdowns.
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The Vikings sent New England a third-round pick in 2011 in exchange for Moss and a seventh-round pick in 2012.
The Vikings originally drafted Moss in 1998 with the 21st pick in the NFL draft.
Moss' much anticipated return to New England as a Viking Sunday proved to be anticlimactic, until the game was over that is.
After catching just one pass for eight yards, Moss was seen embracing Patriots quarterback
Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and other ex-teammates.
An emotional Moss then addressed the media -- something he was fined $25,000 for not doing during the week leading up to the game -- about coming back to Gillette Stadium just weeks after having been traded.
"It was hard for me to come here to play, an up and down thing. I was on a roller coaster all week," said Moss, who had one catch for 8 yards for Minnesota. "To see these guys running plays and I know what they are doing, I know what type of feeling they have in the locker room.
"I miss every last helmet in that locker room."
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While saluting the Patriots performance in a 28-18 win, Moss also appeared to question his own coaching staff's preparation for the game.
"I tried to prepare; tried to talk to the coaches and players about how this game was going to be played ? a couple tendencies here and a couple tendencies there," Moss said. "But the bad part about it, you have six days to prepare for a team and on (Sunday ... they come over to me and say, 'Dang, Moss, you were right about a couple plays and a couple schemes that they were going to run.'
"It hurts as a player that you put a lot of hard work in all week and toward the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that is when they acknowledge the hard work you have put in all week. So that is a disappointment."
Moss now has 24 hours for a team to claim him off waivers. His salary for the remainder of this season will be paid entirely by the Minnesota Vikings, but he can make additional money if he agrees to a new contract with a new team.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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