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The Minnesota Vikings waived wide receiver Randy Moss Monday, NFL Network's Michael Lombardi reports.

Moss did not fly back to Minnesota with the team following a 28-18 loss to the New England Patriots Sunday, according to Lombardi.

Vikings coach Brad Childres informed the team of the move in a meeting Monday morning. Fox Sports and NFL Network contributor Jay Glazer reports that the move came as a total surprise to players and some members of the Vikings staff.

Moss, acquired by the Vikings in a trade with the New England Patriots following Week 4, appeared in just four games with Minnesota in 2010, catching 13 passes for 174 yards and two touchdowns.

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The Vikings sent New England a third-round pick in 2011 in exchange for Moss and a seventh-round pick in 2012.

The Vikings originally drafted Moss in 1998 with the 21st pick in the NFL draft.

Vikings linebacker Ben Leber told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that Childress didn't give the team a reason for cutting Moss.

"(He) just wanted to give everybody a heads-up and say this is what's going on, and that's it," Leber said. "He didn't really dive into any details, and just said that's what were going to go with."

Moss' much anticipated return to New England as a Viking Sunday proved to be anticlimactic, until the game was over that is.

After catching just one pass for eight yards, Moss was seen embracing Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, coach Bill Belichick and other ex-teammates.

An emotional Moss then addressed the media -- something he was fined $25,000 for not doing during the week leading up to the game -- about coming back to Gillette Stadium just weeks after having been traded.

"It was hard for me to come here to play, an up and down thing. I was on a roller coaster all week," said Moss. "To see these guys running plays and I know what they are doing, I know what type of feeling they have in the locker room.

"I miss every last helmet in that locker room."

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While saluting the Patriots' performance Sunday, Moss also appeared to question his own coaching staff's preparation for the game.

"I tried to prepare; tried to talk to the coaches and players about how this game was going to be played – a couple tendencies here and a couple tendencies there," Moss said. "But the bad part about it, you have six days to prepare for a team and on (Sunday ... they come over to me and say, 'Dang, Moss, you were right about a couple plays and a couple schemes that they were going to run.'

"It hurts as a player that you put a lot of hard work in all week and toward the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that is when they acknowledge the hard work you have put in all week. So that is a disappointment."

Moss now has 24 hours for a team to claim him and his contract off waivers. If Moss is unclaimed, he will become a free agent, but the remainder of his contract will be paid by the Vikings. Moss would then have the opportunity to earn even more money through a new deal with a new team.

Childress downplayed Moss' comments Sunday. "Not at present, I don't. No," Childress said when asked if he regretted trading for Moss. "I just think he was going back to a spot that he has a lot of affection for.

"I thought by and large those comments were regarding the people there, the coach there, the ownership there. And obviously there's a fondness in his heart for those guys on that football team.

"Hey, you'd like to go out there and beat their tails off. There's nothing he would like better. At the same time, he enjoyed his stay there."

O_o.....also das kommt schon unerwartet....