Some people would venture to say that Randy Moss and Cris Carter are the best wide receiver duo in NFL history. Moss and Carter played from 1998-2001 on the Minnesota Vikings together. In their first three seasons, Moss and Carter each posted 1,000-plus receiving yards and at least nine touchdowns, striking fear into opposing defenses. Despite the stellar production that Moss and Carter compiled together, Isaac Bruce believes that he and Torry Holt are the best wide receiver duo of all time thanks to their dominance together with the St. Louis Rams.
“It may seem like a whole lot of arrogance to other people, but numbers don’t lie,” Bruce said during a virtual interview on Tuesday, via Bryan DeArdo of CBS Sports. “Everything we put on the football field, the film, it is what it is. You can always go back and turn it on.”
When asked whether he and Holt were a better duo than Moss and Carter, Bruce uttered that they have something the Vikings’ duo doesn’t.
“We won a Super Bowl,” Bruce said.
Besides having a Super Bowl ring to flaunt, Bruce and Holt also played together longer than the duo of Moss and Carter. After Holt was selected in the first round of the 1999 NFL draft, Bruce and Holt would spend 1999-2007 together on the Rams. Over the course of those nine seasons, they won a Super Bowl in Holt’s rookie year and proceeded to make the Super Bowl in 2001, only to lose to Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.
Amid Bruce and Holt’s run with the Rams, they were one of the most dominant wide receiver pairings we’ve ever seen grace the gridiron. The numbers speak for themselves as Bruce is preparing to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame next month and Holt has a chance to be enshrined in Canton at some point in the future, too. While there has been an abundance of gifted wide receiver duos to play in the NFL, Bruce doesn’t believe any of them are superior to him and Holt.