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Healthy scratch made Lance Moore want out of Pittsburgh

Veteran receiver Lance Moore spent plenty of years — and caught plenty of passes — with the Saints. He spent one year in Pittsburgh. And it didn’t end well.

“I knew the day after the playoff loss that we had, I knew that I didn’t want to be there anymore,” Moore said recently, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. “They made me inactive. And I knew at that point that the writing is on the wall. I could see what their future plans were for me; it was the first time in my career that I was a healthy inactive.