Who would I take?

There has been a big question floating around the last couple days: If you were to pick up a a big free agent wide out who would you take? T.O.? Randy Moss? Or Plaxico Burress?
I am going with Plax if I take any of these.
Randy is easily the most overall talented and best of this group, but I really question how much juice and competition he has left in the tank. We have seen this before from Randy, but I am not sure if there is another Belichick that will be willing to bring him into the fold and then put in the ample amount of time to get his focus back, because it is there deep down in there somewhere. You just have to beat it out of him again. I would not even be worried about Moss’ age, because he has a couple less years on his tires than how many years he has been in the league. Last year, he certainly didn’t stress his bone much, and then there was a year and a half or two in Oakland where the effort and stress level was not 100%
This means that he probably still has a couple good years left in him physically, but does he have it mentally?
As for T.O., I think it is the exact opposite. It seems like mentally T.O. has calmed down enough to play for a team, but now he has this knee injury at the age of 37. I do not doubt Terrell Eldorado Owens’ work ethic to get back to playing shape, but he has been one of the hardest working athletes in the NFL for the past decade or so, which means that he his body is even more worked that most 37 year olds. Every body breaks down eventually, and the fact that he now has this mysterious (his agent Drew Rosenhous said that they are not going to share how it happened) injury, it make me think that the process of his body breaking down has started.
Plax on the other hand has had a few years off, his body is fresh, and he still has his two best assets that probably are not going anywhere: his height & his hands. Even if he looses a step or even some hops, he still will be able to outjump any corner back down in the Redzone. He has a 4 or 5 inch head start on almost any corner in the game, and I feel like he probably did not develop stone hands while locked up.
I will take Plax’s fly route in the redzone over T.O.’s now questionable explosivness and Randys questionable ambition right now.

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