No pressure? Really?
Here's a guy who was a QB stud most of his life. He was a top 7-11 nationally ranked high school QB prospect coming out of the hotbed of high school football in So Cal including winning the Div 3 Championship after taking his team 13-0 and also named Farwest player of the year. PacWest rated him a 4-star QB. He was all-pac10 and set various Oregon passing records while there. Even in Dec 07, he was NFL offensive rookie of the month.
Bottom line: here's a guy who was among the elite all his life who ended up being bypassed in the draft. It was a cruel awakening. Well he lit it up over his 5 game audition in 09, going 4-1 to bring a poor Carolina team up to 8-8. In 09 he was concussed.. and that's the major reason why his play fell off so badly. Let me repeat that slowly.. he was concussed and pressed back into action!
So you have a guy who just turned 27 and after being "the man" most of his life now finds himself very close to being stereotyped as a "journeyman" and signed as a free agent for a relative pittance. He's got limited auditions left to disprove that assumption. So when thrown into a winless, low morale situation with players grumbling as the opportunity to prove himself, he was dealt a bad hand. It's not like he was Curtis Painter or Caleb Haine. If he was both those teams would be doing better, you can bet on that! If starting for a winless team, with the way the league perceives your future at stake and fans in the stands wearing "suck for luck" tee shirts and rooting for you to lose... hell if that's not pressure packed, then I don't know what the **** is!!!!!
Now compare that to the pressure of a QB who know from past experience that no matter how badly he craps the bed, his team has been good enough to carry him, his HC is an enabler who rarely takes him to task, and realistically that the only practical option to replace him is 3 years away from his AARP card. Comparatively where's the pressure there? If Moore played for that particular team with that little pressure to perform, that particular team would be closer to 11-2 than 7-5.