You certainly painted a different picture than i originally thought. To me Carolina would have possibly won the trade if Moore wasn't involved. Your talking about one of the best deep threats in football who's put up 1000+ yard seasons with awful qbs. Who knows what he will be with Fields Cannon of an arm.
I live about 50 miles from Charlotte so I’m pretty in tune with Carolina bc I live around a bunch of their fans. DJ Moore does not fit what Reich wants and believe it or not he’s not as big a fan favorite as what you’d think.
Yes he’s put up some good numbers especially considering his QBs lately but again… he doesn’t fit Reichs WR prototype and they had been shopping him around all offseason. So my point is… he was going anyway.
I’m not laughing at you but I am laughing at the notion of Justin Fields and his passing abilities. The kid is electric with his feet but that’s all he is. He is a poor man’s Lamar Jackson. He’s already missing games bc if injury bc they run him as if he’s built like Cam Newton or Ben Roethlisberger and he’s not.
He played 15 games last season and he only attempted MORE than 25 passes in a game 3 times and in those 3 games he attempted 25/27/28. If his arm is so great why would they not let him throw more? Maybe bc his OL is downright awful as they allowed him to be sacked 55 times.
He also only completed 60.4% of his passes over those 15 games and as I said… only attempted more than 25 passes in a game 3 times.
Look… I’m not trying to knock the kid I’m really not bc he’s not in a great situation. Chicago is where QBs go to die as it’s a QB graveyard. Chicago keeps drafting QBs hoping to strike gold but what they haven’t figured out is… it doesn’t matter who they draft… until they switch their culture from that rugged old school defense wins championships mentality they’re going to continue to kill talented QBs. They need a modern day philosophy. Much like what we underwent last season.
Ross finally realized it takes weapons and offense is what puts people in the stands. Yards points big plays… that’s the way the game is played today. Until Chicago accepts this… they will continue to suck hard year in and year out.
They’re trying to put some weapons around him but it seems like they’re just throwing darts at the board and hoping. The 2nd rounder they acquired at the deadline for RoQuan from Baltimore they turned right around the same day and sent it to Pittsburgh for Chase Claypool. Now they acquire another guy (DJ Moore) who has some skills but his former team has been shopping him. What’s that tell you? Claypool and Moore couldn’t be more different from a prototype standpoint. Again… it seems as if Chicago is just throwing darts hoping to hit the bullseye. It doesn’t feel like they have a plan or specific player types they’re looking for.
All this equals a very rough and rather short lived career for the very talented but super unlucky Justin Fields.
