Do I KNOW? Of course not, what's your point? Rapoport is the most connected NFL reporter on the planet along with Schefter. He basically never gets stories like this wrong. We have way more reason to think Moore actually did request a trade than not. Do you not believe anything unless you have firsthand knowledge of it?
A source(s) told him something. I've worked in the media, with reporters, etc. Their sources get it wrong sometimes. While I'm only speculating, I suspect his source wasn't Moore, Saleh, MLF, or JD. I'll wait to see how things play out over the next few days. Aside from that, so many here, who are attacking Moore, are reacting emotionally the same as Moore reacted on Sunday. The irony.
But he is not seasoned. He is in his second year. And what is a scripted play? What does that even mean. Does it mean we score the first time we have the ball like we did in what, 7 games in a row with Gase. Cause if thats what scripted is, I don't see davis and Berrios heavily involved in the first series of downs.
Meh. MLF is NOT a good playcaller yet. but he's a creative play designer. His situational awareness on the play calling needs to get better. I think what happens is we have the polar opposite of the Gase. Gase knew how to scheme but lack any real in-game adjustments especially due to his stubbornness. MLF adjusts in the 2nd half, and figures out what in the playbook can be used exploit what he's seeing. But his plays are not necessarily working - we just have a lot of great talent. The Breece Hall trap was actually a Hall hand-off then pitch to Wilson who was supposed to throw to Braxton, the entire play was dead, and Breece turned it out a TD run. You can't give that to MLF on playcalling at all. Couple with the ST scoring a TD. So MLF offense only scored 13 pts against GB. So....MLF is NOT a good playcaller yet.
Stuff like Hand-offs to Braxton on reverses. Moore did that last year and was successful. They haven't given him one this year.
I know what you said, thats my point. Why shouldnt he get the benefit of the doubt if he gets his shit together? Im not saying kiss his ass unconditionally. He def made a mess by his behavior, hes likely to be deactivated this week. That's a loss of pay. If he doesnt learn after that....well then hes made his own bed.
And his constant 3rd and short empty backfield calls make me scream wtf are you doing. He doesnt set his players up for success at all. Theyre winning in spite of him.
17 points. And If you are directing the comment to me, I never said MLF was a good playcaller. I said why have a beef with him when the team is 3-0 under ZW and scoring points. I would love someone to find any comment I made saying he is a good playcaller. It remains to be seen if we have great talent. I hope we do, but lets take Moore as an example. I though he was very good last year and could develop into a major talent. Seems I was wrong. Scheme or he just isn't really that good? There is only 1 football and all the players want it.
If I were a player that was being criticized the way that Moore is because of a report that I was demanding a trade, if that report wasn't true, I'd be running to the nearest camera or journalist I could find to refute it. The fact that he's not doing that, nor is the team saying anything, speaks volumes.
It speaks volumes to you. Me, I don't hear anything, & don't read minds. Tomorrow, I'm sure, I'll hear something.
He was literally drafted for this scheme by MLF recommendation. MLF was quoted saying I can't believe he fell on Draft day.
I'll say it again. What is your beef with MLF? Please tell me which play call in the last game you would have done differently, even given the benefit of hindsight. If players were robots and the machine under which they were working was inefficient, I could blame the engineer. I have NO IDEA AND I BET NEITHER DO YOU, whether or not a play failed cause of execution or strategy, unless it is absolutely obvious like the QB sneak last year.
This whole situation makes no sense. I think Elijah's problem is the jack-of-all-trades thing, he's probably never the hot read because he's not the top player at any of the 3 receiver positions right now. I'm still interested in knowing what incident led up to Elijah being sent home from practice, besides some vague allusion to an argument.
Isn't it? Let's assume Moore didn't ask to be traded, you don't think he's been made aware of this story by now? And if he is aware of it, and didn't actually do it, why wouldn't he come out and refute it? Would you sit idly by as everyone trashed you over a lie? So yeah, the overwhelmingly logical conclusion is that he did indeed ask to be traded.
