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The Patriots didn't need the Randy Moss saga to be supremely focused on today's game with Baltimore. The Ravens were clearly better than the Pats in the playoffs, and we think Bill Belichick is still annoyed about it. Without Moss, he can also play the "nobody thinks we can win" card with a straight face. more ›

Deion Branch spoke to the media after his trade back to the Patriots and confirmed he is an entirely different person from Randy Moss. In case there was some doubt about that, Branch clarified it for us straight away by saying "That’s the first thing I wanted to let you all know: I’m not here to replace Randy. I’m not Randy Moss. I wasn’t Randy Moss when I was here." more ›

So Randy's gone. Official Patriot policy is not to speak of a man 30 seconds after he's gone, but Boston media policy is to speak ill of the departed. We'll just say that we knew he was a scorpion when he came here; for all his talent, we knew that there would come a time when Bad Randy would rear his head, but we thought all along that Bill and the brain trust had an exit strategy for when that time came. So good luck, Randy; maybe you can distract Minnesotans from the fact that the Twins are fizzling against the Yankees for the 19th straight year. more ›

Remember Manny Ramirez? Bill Simmons does, and he's spent the last two months on a roller coaster of emotion about what went wrong (coughScottBorascough), what could have been done to fix it, and what it all means. The result is a 750-page analysis that's well worth the hours it will take to read it. more ›