Patriots receiver Randy Moss responded on Wednesday to allegations that resulted in the issuance of a temporary restraining order against him.

“First of all, you all probably heard about these allegations.  All I want to say is that they are false allegations,” Moss said to a gathering of reporters, according to Mike Reiss of the Boston Globe.

“It’s something I’ve been battling for the last couple days, threats of going public if I didn’t pay X amount of dollars.  Before people rush quick to judgment, I think you need to find out the facts about really what is really going on.  This young lady, by no means, is hurt.  I didn’t hurt her.”

Though Moss said the allegations are false, he acknowledged that he knows the woman who filed the civil complaint in Broward County, Florida.  “All I know is that it’s a friend of mine, a young lady, it was an accident where she hurt herself, to where they called me, called my attorneys, trying to get X amount of dollars out of me, and if ‘we don’t get X amount of dollars’ they were going to go to the press before this game.”

Though Moss has asked the media to get all the facts before passing judgment, there are already enough facts to support a conclusion that Moss at a minimum has shown poor judgment in his selection of friends if one of them would try to extort money from him — and then make good on the threats by filing paperwork in a Court of law alleging that he had in some way harmed her.

We’ve got a feeling there’s more to this one.  A lot more.