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What happened to cutting Matt Moore?

enigmatics said:
I love it when they do that. They quickly marginalize him for a performance in a game where he was thrown to the wolves after the game was over and in deplorable weather.



Let's just invest somewhere else for the sake of investing guys, even though we had nearly the most cap space prior to FA. LOL

The combination of his salary and Tanny's is low considering the reward for having two capable QB's. If Tanny were elite and expensive you might have a point .... alas you don't.
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You might want to get another juice box as Oakland had over $60 million in cap space.
 
Fin Thirteen said:
If you're a perennial playoff team with an elite QB and you want solid backup in case disaster strikes that won't derail your drive for a SB, I can see why you would want a guy like Matt Moore around.

But we are not that team and we can't yet say for sure if we have an elite QB. One thing is for sure, Matt Moore is not an elite QB, so I don't see the point of him on the roster. He's a mature, happy, chirpy security blanket for a team than needs hungry motivated highly-talented competition for Ryan Tannehill.

Forget about cap room. We should ditch him and probably Devlin and sign a new QB every year till we have someone breathing down Ryan's neck for a start. Even a late rounder or a UDFA, but preferably an occasional mid-late rounder with big upside.

The perceived benefit of a safety blanket QB is overrated. Plenty of teams do OK throwing in rookies and plenty of teams still struggle when they roll out their vet backup.

Moore has trade value. You could probably swing a late rounder and replace him for no loss of picks.
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The QB who is available to use who could put the most pressure on Tannehill is....Matt Moore. He has more talent than pretty much every FA minus Vick combined right now, and the only reason Vick could put pressure on Tannehill is because of the name, not because he has done anything of note in years besides run himself into the defense. Philbin knows what Moore can do and is evidently very comfortable with him.
 
What's the rush? We're still $20 mill plus under the cap and we have no one other than more who is a solid back up. IMO, if we cut Moore, it will be a last minute thing when we have nailed down a viable replacement. We're not going to cut him just to cut him. He's the best #2 we have and arguably the best #2 in the league or at least the AFC. Miami will not rush to show him the door.
 
if we keep Moore fine but lets quit acting like Moore would be able to lead us anywhere itf Tanehill went down. If Moore was so good he would not be content to be Tannehill's backup.
 
dlockz said:
if we keep Moore fine but lets quit acting like Moore would be able to lead us anywhere itf Tanehill went down. If Moore was so good he would not be content to be Tannehill's backup.
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I agree with you. But there are few QBs out there that have the experience Moore has as a starter (and are a back up) and he has had slightly above average success. He's not a player you just simply cut just to cut. He has a definite value to our team.
 
Moore is a good back-up, him and Tannehill get along very well and the team does not need the money...
 
Fin Fan in Cali said:
You might want to get another juice box as Oakland had over $60 million in cap space.
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..... and you might want to finally understand it's useless to cut him when the backup QB market is hot garbage and he comes off the books next year anyways.
 
enigmatics said:
..... and you might want to finally understand it's useless to cut him when the backup QB market is hot garbage and he comes off the books next year anyways.
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And teams in our own division who already beat us with total scrubs at QB could pick him up, start him, and he would be a huge upgrade for them.

That and the fact he is currently the best QB we have ourselves.
 
WVDolphan said:
And teams in our own division who already beat us with total scrubs at QB could pick him up, start him, and he would be a huge upgrade for them.

That and the fact he is currently the best QB we have ourselves.
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Give RT a running game and better protection before you pass judgement.
When RT got hurt, Moore actually looked worse than RT behind that line.
 
WVDolphan said:
And teams in our own division who already beat us with total scrubs at QB could pick him up, start him, and he would be a huge upgrade for them.

That and the fact he is currently the best QB we have ourselves.
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I just like the fact that it's a new OC without some pre-existing relationship like what we got with the pre-packaged Tanny/Sherman Kit plucked from the Good Ol' Boys Home Shopping Network. Tanny is going to have to bust his ass and this time without the security of his college offense's training wheels. We're going to be finding out a lot more of what his actual passing talents are in lieu of that fact.
 
LANGER72 said:
Give RT a running game and better protection before you pass judgement.
When RT got hurt, Moore actually looked worse than RT behind that line.
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Yeah, better check your facts on this one. Moore gained as many yards on one pass as Tannehill did in three quarters. Yes he threw an INT, which would have actually been an improvement to Tannehill throwing the ball away on third down with us needing to score or go homewithout even being hit because he was so shell shocked. Moore also eluded more pass rushers in 5 plays than Tannehill did all game, because Tannehill eludes pretty much 0 rushers unless it's the last drive of a game, when he somehow gains the ability.

I think RT could look tons better with a good OL, but that's because he is so terrible at feeling the pass rush when he doesn't get the ball out in 2 seconds (which he got better at through the season). That won't help him throw the deep ball, and if he can't throw the deep ball, teams are going to play defense like they did the last two games and play short routes only because they worry absolutely not at all about going over the top.
 
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If there is somebody they want and they don't have the money for it, I'm sure they will cut him if need be.
 
for less money they could sign Fitzpatrick to be backup and there is very little difference in ability between them. Like I said if Moore was so good he would not still be on ou team backing up Tannehill.
We could get no more than a very late round pick for him if we could get anything. If we have the space , why no keep him he is quite content being our backup. You have to in a way admire a guy that knows his role.
He will never be pushing Tannehill as a starter though but most of these guys wouldn't be.
 
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