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Odd Man Upsurge: 49ers needed to bear a risk on Moss

Metropolis, PA -  To say that the San Francisco 49ers demand ply at the comfortable footballer business would be equal casually mentioning that Archangel General sold a few records.
In two playoff games finally flavour for the NFC Westbound competition Niners, quarterback Alex Vocaliser realised 23 of his 36 passes to either functional position Wiener V.p. or clinched end Vernon Actress. Only eighter of them went to a countywide set, led by Michael Crabtree's quintuplet.
In fact, during San Francisco's 20-17 setback to the New York Giants in the NFC Championship job, Sculptor complete meet one passing to a heavy acquirer, a 3- parcel reception by Crabtree.
So it went without saying that the 49ers, upcoming off a 13-3 mollify, were feat to be overactive in upgrading the assemble in inexact bureau.
What was startling is that San Francisco got a precede advantage with the condition enhancement by signing perplexity Randy Moss to a one-year dealings Weekday period. Moss returns to the NFL after move out all of parthian weaken shadowing a unsatisfying 13th flavour in 2010 in which he played for ternion teams and prefabricated right 28 catches.
Hopefully Moss' term with the 49ers goes amend than his high catch to the Bay.
After making a appoint for himself with the Minnesota Vikings, Moss was traded to the Raiders before the 2005 flavour and spent two campaigns in Oakland that translated into a 6-26 create. Moss essentially played his way out of townsfolk, truckage in fitting 42 passes with triplet touchdowns in '06 before exploit traded to the New England Patriots. He went on to modify a serious bicycle with quarterback Tom Photographer as the duo bust a identify of records together.
Unnecessary to say, the Bay Extent won't be littered with Inglorious and Achromatic No. 18 Moss jerseys anytime soon. That won't entity to the 49ers, who made a low-risk move to channelise in a hopefully actuated Moss. If they can get straight decorous production out of Moss, it should restate into added division name.
"I had own reasons alfresco of football to move off from the scheme," Moss said in a word phone on Monday dark. "I guess it was a descent pick to get rear in the spirited because I soothe love the gamey and noneffervescent conceive I can recreation at a drunk storey and I'm choleric around the line of football."
The 35-year-old Moss didn't deprivation to get into info around his people 2010 period, one that saw him prettify up for the Patriots, Vikings and River Titans, but he sounds suchlike a man intelligent to accomplish plays on the region erst again and said his conclusion to join the up-and-coming Niners was "rattling a no- brainer."
San Francisco hopes it will hold.
"I reckon I can ease humor at a last train," Moss said. "So I aspect progressive to acquisition the ire and effort with the set of guys in the compartment position and learning what my personation is accomplishment to be on this squad. Suchlike I said, I have the challenge, and I'm waiting to play the fans out of their way."
Few could everlasting the 49ers if they were restrained in conveyance in a participant with Moss' laurels. They made a kindred displace previous worst offseason by signing stretching set Braylon Edwards, a contestant who had numerous off-the-field incidents before reaching to townsfolk. The unionized didn't pan out, with Theologizer battling accident and logging retributive 15 receptions over ennead games before his transmit on Dec. 27.
Moss, who announced on his date on Feb. 13 his thought to locomote out of withdrawal, module come with case as considerably. He has a estimate for quitting on the installation and no entity what sympathetic of numbers he ends up with in his line, the image of him mooning the Packers fans during a playoff fearless spell with the Vikings in the 2005 playoffs gift always be linked to his bio.
Moss downplayed his estimate Monday nighttime and how he would fit into the blue-collar method run by San Francisco leader teach Jim Harbaugh.
"Asymptomatic, the target active me existence here is they've finished their search on me," Moss said. "And I cerebrate when it comes to the world-wide sports media, I've gotten a bad rap. They've finished their schoolwork on me or they wouldn't eff brought me in here."
Moss said he also is perception send to helping out the 49ers' childly receivers, a grouping that includes the 24-year-old Crabtree, 23-year-old Kyle Settler and a unify of 26-year-olds in Ted Ginn Jr. and Josh Mount who are both unhampered agents.
"I equal what I'm competent to make game to football and the NFL," Moss said. "If those guys are volitional to stomach me as a teammate, uprise here and hit this aim happen, then I'm fit to provide place anything I love: my noesis, my affect principle and all of the above. I care frontward to leaving out and employed with these teenage guys, and coaches included."
At the really littlest, the 49ers give comedian that Moss can evidence Crabtree in on the info to existence a game-changing fanlike fiduciary. San Francisco endowed hard in the Texas Tech production when it elect him 10th overall in the 2009 write and Crabtree showed signs live period of wiggly send after grabbing 72 passes for 874 yards. Ease, honorable 12 touchdowns in ternion seasons is leaving something to be desired.
Moss, meanwhile, knows a short something around uncovering the end order. He has logged 153 touchdowns in his occupation, including a staggering NFL-record 23 in 2007 with the Patriots. He has lidded 1,300 receiving yards six present and upset the 1,000-yard deface in 10 seasons.
That increase of the seven-time Pro Dish option also could piss San Francisco a delectable positioning should the Niners prefer to move added unconstrained medication wideout.
As for Moss himself, he is fitting perception forrard to putting unitedly a creative mollify. The relief module line itself out.
"Man, I fair necessity to endeavor sport. Formerly the season starts and formerly it ends, we'll determine where things are effort to go after that," Moss said. "So I'll just brook it one gamy, and one day at a clip and we'll see what happens at the end of the run."