The response, in pursuit of clarity, is more than reasonable. Moss, a wide receiver at the University of Maine, is the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer and former Patriot Randy Moss.
For fans of a certain age or possessing even a decent sense of NFL history, the mere mention of Randy Moss's name is sure to summon a reel of highlights immediately to mind.
He is one of the most accomplished and perhaps the most electrifying pass-catcher in NFL history.
But his son -- known as "Tigo" to friends, which seems to be just about everyone on the Maine campus -- has accumulated a spectacular assortment of highlights of his own during his five seasons as a Black Bear.
A few -- including a couple of one-handed catches during the 2023 season against Villanova and Richmond -- have been featured on ESPN's "NFL Countdown," where his father, a studio analyst, highlights the most spectacular catches of the week on a segment titled "You Got Mossed!"
But one Moss highlight in particular, from Maine's victory over Albany earlier this season, went viral, for it was eerily similar to a play his father had made 22 years before.
Lining up in the backfield on a play called "Capybara" for a 2-point conversion attempt, Moss took a handoff, rolled right, spun away from a tackler, and, just as he was being hauled down, tossed a strike to receiver Joe Gillette for the conversation.
On "NFL Countdown" the Sunday after Maine's 34-30 victory, host Mike Greenberg introduced a highlight of Randy Moss making an uncannily similar throw for a touchdown during a December 2002 game against the Dolphins.
That was immediately followed by Montigo Moss's highlight, which brought delighted laughter from Randy Moss, who yelled, "Right there, Greenie!" and pumped his fist, the picture of a proud dad.
Amusingly, Montego Moss had no idea his father had made a similar play until the father of Moss's roommate, defensive lineman John Costanza, texted him.
"[Tom Costanza] was like, 'Did you know your dad made a very similar play?' And I said, 'What are you talking about?'
"I had no idea. Then I saw it, and it was so similar, right to T."
He pauses, then revisits the original query.
"So, yeah, that one, that's my favorite highlight. Because history repeats."
Fairly or not, Montigo Moss's flair for the spectacular -- and the confidence he inspires in his teammates -- makes comparisons to the elder Moss inevitable.
"You see the ball get thrown to him," says Constanza, his roommate for all five years at Maine, "and you're like, 'Yeah, he's coming down with that.' "
Moss led Maine, which finished the season 5-7 after Saturday's 27-9 loss to New Hampshire, in receptions (61), receiving yards (722), and touchdowns (7).
"He's kind of a gritty old-school receiver with that new competitive-swagger mentality,'' said Black Bears offensive coordinator Mikahael Waters.
He's not as fast as his father, nor as tall (he's listed at 6 feet 1 inch, whereas Randy Moss is a lanky 6-4). But there are other similarities. He wears No. 81, Randy's number during his three-plus seasons (2007 through the fourth game of the 2010 season, when he was traded to the Titans) with the Patriots.
He has the same confident grin, and the graduate for Fork Union Military School in Virginia sounds quite a bit like his father, minus the West Virginia twang.
But Randy Moss's tall shadow stretches from Minneapolis to Foxborough and then all the way back to Canton, and that hasn't always been an easy thing to navigate.
"Honestly, in high school, it was a little hard, because there was a lot of pressure," said Montigo, who doesn't recall ever seeing Randy play in person for the Patriots. "I didn't really know how to handle it back in high school. Here in college, I was used to it by now. People say stuff all the time on the field.
"It's not like a weight on my shoulder, if that makes sense. It's not pressure anymore. I've grown to be OK with it."
Though his parents are no longer together, Moss -- who has four siblings -- is close with both. He says the self-discipline and organizational skills he learned from his mother have been essential to succeeding in college.
His father (who does not do media interviews) is a frequent visitor to Orono. He helped Montigo do such things as move into his apartment, and attended graduation, and often came to games (including the UNH finale) despite having to be in Bristol, Conn. for "NFL Countdown" on Sunday mornings.
Jordan Stevens, who just completed his second season as head coach, said he has talked to Montigo briefly about the weight of expectations that come with his last name.
"He admires and reveres his dad. He leans on his dad. And he has really great support," said Stevens.
"There's probably some deeper pressure there that maybe he naturally feels to perform and to be up to a certain level as a player. But I think he's kind of found a way to detach himself from that and be his own person."
So how did a kid with a famous football surname, who grew up in Charlotte, spent his senior season of high school at prep football power Fork Union, and blessed with obvious skills, end up in far-away Orono, Maine? Well, the answer to that question is easy.
"It was my only [Division 1] offer," said Moss.
Then-Maine coach Nick Charlton made the offer during a phone conversation on New Year's Day 2020. Moss accepted a week or two later.
"More than anything, I was appreciative of it. I was like, 'They're taking a chance on me, and they're investing in me.'
"I don't know where Maine is, I'm not familiar with that area. But they gave me a chance, so why not take a chance on them?"
Moss acknowledges with a laugh that it took some time to adjust to Orono, which typically has a bucolic fall worthy of a "Downeast Magazine" cover, an out-of-nowhere unseasonably warm week in April, and is cold enough in between that one half expects to see penguins waddling around campus.
"I'm pretty sure it was snowing on my plane ride to school," he said. "It was freezing, I didn't have the right clothes. I was like, 'man, I hate it here, it's dark at like 4 o'clock.' Yeah, I wasn't a fan of it at first."
Yet in this age of rapid-fire transfers and the temptations of the transfer portal, Moss stayed -- through a coaching change when Stevens took over after Charlton left to join UConn's staff late in 2021, through a pair of two-win seasons, and through an awful lot of frigid days.
Turns out any temptation to play elsewhere was no match for an increasingly scarce characteristic in college sports: loyalty.
"When Coach Stevens came in, he was big on the culture. And it's hard to build culture when guys are constantly leaving," said Moss, who acknowledges becoming a more vocal leader over the last season or two.
"I've had a pretty decent season this year, and for guys to be able to see that and be like, 'I can stay here, develop as a player, have a good season, and have a shot at the next level of football, wherever it is.' "
Moss is hoping to follow in his father's footsteps to the NFL, "or wherever football takes me."
For now, though, the person his roommate Costanza calls "a really caring person who is always trying to boost up other people" is just trying to enjoy his time in Orono a little while longer.