"The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar"
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The second clause is the real workhorse: “I’ve always watched from afar.” It frames his arrival as a long-standing curiosity finally turning into proximity, which softens the more controversial truth of Moss’s career arc. By this point he carried the reputation of being electric but volatile, a superstar who could dominate a game and also dominate a headline. “From afar” implies humility and patience; it suggests he’s not barging in to remake the Patriots in his image, but stepping into their culture.
There’s also a subtle repositioning of agency. Moss isn’t begging; he’s narrating a relationship that predates the contract, as if the Patriots were always on his radar, not merely his next stop. In an era when New England’s “Patriot Way” was marketed almost like a moral code, this sentence functions as a loyalty pledge and a reputation reset: the mercurial talent is ready to be coached, to be contained, to be useful. It’s PR, yes, but it’s also a veteran athlete understanding that legacy is as much about fit as it is about stats.
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Moss, Randy. (2026, January 15). The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-new-england-patriots-have-always-been-a-151183/
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Moss, Randy. "The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-new-england-patriots-have-always-been-a-151183/.
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"The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-new-england-patriots-have-always-been-a-151183/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.


