I feel like anyone saying Moss and T.O. were more physically gifted than Jerry must not be remembering the first third of JR's career. You could have two or more guys on Jerry Rice but if you hit him underneath on a crossing route and he didn't have to break full stride it usually meant six points. He would blow by the entire defensive backfield whether they had position on him or not. It was one of those special things that only occasionally happens in sports where everyone knew exactly what was coming but were usually powerless to do anything to stop it. Moss and T.O. were often amazing but they never achieved that level of dominance.
And lmao at Moss claiming stats are "political"
Even if we go by his abstract metric of greatest impact on the game (which he has to use because using anything that's measurable is no contest) you still have to give it to Rice. By the mid 90's half the NFL was running the WCO and trying to emulate what we'd been doing with Jerry that's due in no small part to Rice himself.
Also did it ever occur to T.O. that the HOF qb's throwing to Jerry Rice were HOF qb's in large part
because they were throwing to Jerry Rice? Rice had good numbers and a high level of play with Rich Gannon too... WHEN HE WAS 40! Seriously guys, go lay by your dish, you aren't even close.