Santana Moss Discusses The Drop

Santana Moss had a heck of a game yesterday -- 8 catches for 72 yards with 2 touchdowns -- but it was almost even better. On first down in the fourth quarter, with the game tied and 4:27 left, Rex Grossman hit Moss in the hands with a ball on a go route. The guy covering Moss had fallen down; had Moss caught the ball and fallen on the spot, it would've been a 26 yard gain, but it didn't look like Moss would have any reason to fall on the spot. It looked, frankly, like it would've been a 75 yard go-ahead touchdown.

The wouldas off of this are ridiculous. It would've given the Redskins a likely shot at the win, completing a truly spectacular comeback. It would've given Moss 9 catches for 149 yards and 3 touchdowns. And it would've given Rex Grossman just under 400 yards passing with 5 touchdowns and only 1 interception.

So, yeah, costly drop. The Washington Post has it immortalized on the front page of their sports section, a phenomenal picture that makes me feel like I might throw up each time I see it. And to his credit, Moss adressed the drop directly today.
"It comes [with the territory], man," Moss said. "You know, I get tired of hearing stuff that ... you know, people try to dwell on stuff, man. I don't like to be that person. People try to bring stuff to you that you're not trying to bring to yourself.

"You look at it, and -- I was disgusted with myself, but when you look at it, you know, I'm stumbling while trying to make a play. Oh well. You didn't make the play. Put it behind you, move on. That's all you can do. When you play this game, you've gotta have amnesia. You've gotta put it behind you, so therefore it's gone and I don't like to sit around and keep talking about it. Once the game is over, once the day or two is over with, it's kinda out your mind. Once you go back and look at it -- and I always TiVo the game so I get the chance to go back and look at things I did right or I did wrong, and once I seen what it was ... just like the guys who've seen it to0.

"It was one of those plays that you wish you had, but you didn't."

The fact that he was stumbling, Moss said, did affect the play.

"It threw off a lot," he explained. "If you watch the game, you'll see my hands was turned different. It's hard to catch a ball when your hands, both of 'em are turned outwards. But I was just trying to make a play. The ball touched my hands; as a receiver, when it touches your hands, you gotta catch it. That's how I put it on myself. I don't look it as saying, 'Oh, that made me not catch it,' I look at as, 'Santana, you gotta catch it.'"

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(redskins.com)