Randy Moss to Oakland
 

Dante DiTrapano, Moss' agent, told The Associated Press that the Minnesota Vikings and the Raiders had "come to an agreement on Randy playing for Oakland next year."

Randy Moss will add another wild dynamic to the Raiders.
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Neither the Vikings nor the Raiders would confirm the deal, which was first reported by the St. Paul Pioneer Press on its Web site.

"We have had discussions with the Oakland Raiders, but there's nothing to announce," Rob Brzezinski, the team's vice president of football operations, told The Associated Press.

Raiders spokesman Mike Taylor declined comment on the trade reports.

FOXSports.com's Jay Glazer has learned that the Vikings and the Oakland Raiders have agreed to a trade that will send All-Pro wide receiver Randy Moss to Oakland in exchange for the Raider's first-round pick this year, a seventh-round choice and linebacker Napoleon Harris, a former first-rounder himself.

The Raiders will likely want to restructure Moss' deal to make it more cap-friendly, but the trade is not contingent on such a move.

Quarterback Daunte Culpepper told FOXSports.com at the Pro Bowl that while he hoped to have Moss around for his entire career, he was done smoothing things over between Moss and the team. Culpepper added that Moss walking off the field prematurely this past season was "terrible, how can I justify that. That was terrible."

The deal cannot become official until March 2, the start of the NFL's fiscal year.

"It's just like any other contract. There's a meeting of the minds between the people who negotiate for the Vikings and the people who negotiate for the Raiders," DiTrapano said. "It just hasn't been reduced to writing and it won't be until March 2."

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The flamboyant Moss had been the subject of trade rumors following this past season. He struggled with a hamstring injury, but still finished with 13 touchdown catches. He was fined $10,000 for pretending to pull down his pants and moon the Green Bay crowd during Minnesota's playoff win. He also drew criticism for leaving the field with 2 seconds left in a regular-season loss against Washington.

Team leaders Matt Birk and Daunte Culpepper confronted Moss after he walked off at Washington, and the organization's patience with the receiver seemed to dwindle in the past year or so.

"He's my good friend, but you almost get to thinking that maybe enough is enough," Culpepper said earlier this month at the Pro Bowl. "And maybe the Vikings organization has had enough."

DiTrapano said Moss was "very pleased to be going to Oakland and looking forward to playing with a team that's promised they're going to throw the ball deep a whole lot to him and having a chance at winning the Super Bowl."

"He doesn't leave Minnesota with any grudges," DiTrapano said. "It just was frustrating for him to lose."

On Tuesday, the Raiders re-signed Jerry Porter, their star wide receiver to a contract worth $20 million over five years. Porter could have become a free agent on March 2.

are you serious....it wont...feel the same you know...just like when Jerry Rice left the niners...nobody really cared for him anymore....hmm...

Randy Moss? Too Oakland??????? Never saw that coming..........

damn i wanted him here............

yea, but the only difference is people will still care about him, Randy Moss is too good not to be cared about

yeah, i dont like the vikings anyway so thats good, the raiders r my team

It aint gonna happen.......Vikings want a better offer i think.......so just wait n see.......

lol forget the vikings they dont do shit anymore anyway

its official.. Randy Moss= a RAIDA .. im happy raiders are gonna be slightly better...

Lol except Randy Moss is like 20 somethin and in his prime if not his prime is ONLY COMING... and Rice was like 42 when he got trade.. lol

Yeah but old news as far as it being official today, i knew this was gonna happen yesterday afternoon..

never really liked randy moss, too much attitude and doesnt do a whole lot any how....."k, heres the play, moss, go to the endzone and jump...right, break", yep, and then he would cock off all the time cause he could jump high, shit, plus, jerry rice is the man, way better than moss

Jerry Rice in his prime over all recievers.....he helped win a super bowl w/ a twisted ankle....

^^ the fuck more do you want him to do, run for touchdown also??..throw for a couple??

anyways...who the fuck is gonna throw the ball deep to him

yeah, i just think moss is overrated that all, you hear to much shit about him, but 90% of the shit is him doin some stupid shenanagan.....^^^yeah, oakland is done, the gannon days are over...haha

LMAO at randy moss not helping a team