I've always said Moore is an average QB. I like him but he isn't a franchise guy. Looking at the 2011 season, the Dolphins lost to the following teams to get to 0-7:
San Diego - His first game action with the Dolphins. He didn't do enough and had an average game at best.
NY Jets - Below average game
Denver - If defense stopped Tebow once in the 4th qtr, the game would've been won
NY Giants - If defense holds again, they'd win another one
They then win 3 straight vs Kansas City, Washington, and Buffalo where Moore throws 6 TDs and 1 INT. He starts to look more comfortable.
Thanksgiving game at Dallas - If defense holds, they win the game. Romo drives team down field for GW-FG. Defense fails again.
Wins against Oakland
Loses against Philadelphia - Eagles were on their way to finishing on a positive note for the season. You remember the 45-19 win over the Jets I'm sure.
Wins at Buffalo
Loses in New England by 3 - I knew NE was going to come back and win that game b/c that's the sort of **** those bastards are all about. Moore threw a bad INT in the 3rd qtr that gave them a short field. Otherwise he had 3 TD passes and a 99.8 rating
End the season with a win vs the Jets
So IMO he was average or worse in 3 games the team lost. The defense blew 3 other games for the Dolphins as well. If the defense had any true balls, the Phins would have finished at least 9-7. I know it goes both ways but it's a fact the defense gave up leads late in 3 of the games I detailed.
That all being said, Moore is still an average QB who will throw together some good games that are rounded out with average ones. Is he better than Henne in Miami? There isn't enough of a sample size yet to have an answer for that (at least on my end).
Yes D blew Den game but Moore did very little, he led them to 15 pts and they had a 15-0 lead and got the ball back w/ 5:50 to play and they had a quick 3 and out and in OT he had TWO possessions to win the game and failed.
against NYG: had a great start but only led his O to 3 pts in the 2nd half.
There wasn't really a single game where he was the primary reason they won, of their 6 wins the D alloweed more than 20 one time and those pts were mostly garbage time points.
I love Moore as a backup, I'd be fine w/ him as a QB starting a game here and there but it would be insane for any team to make him a permanent starter and build around him which was why Miami drafted a QB for that.
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You are basing that off of 1 season. The guy got a concussion in week 1 and only started 5 games before he was placed on IR with a shoulder injury. 1 season as a starter in which he was removed in week 2 is hardly enough to declare that he can only play well when there is no pressure.
Pressure is silly argument anyways since there is always pressure when players are playing for their jobs.
I'm basing it off multiple seasons:
In Carolina:
2009; played great w/ team out of it
2010: stunk starting day 1(spare me the injury excuses)
in Miami: took lover at 0-3, led team to 0-7, after team was out of it he played well.
That's 2 examples. There's a reason Miami drafted a QB and signed another.