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LinvilleGorge Grand Master

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In his first 7 games, he was averaging 66 yards per game and had zero 100 yard games. That's not bad. That's still on pace for a 1000 yard season.

But, on Halloween Smitty publicly called out our WRs saying they couldn't beat man coverage and questioning their effort.

Since then, DJ is averaging 105 yards per game and came 5 yards short this past Sunday of recording his third straight 100 yard game. 105 yards per game would be on pace for a nearly 1700 yard season. Maybe the timing was just coincidence, but I'm sure DJ knew about what Smitty had said.

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30 minutes ago, CRA said:

DJ Moore is quietly on pace for 1,246 receiving yards.  Not too shabby for year two, in a running offense, with Kyle Allen as your QB. 

The 1 TD is a bit of a head scratcher. 

not really when you remember how much allen struggles with deep balls. moore's 1 td was on a 10 yard pass where he created a lane for himself to break it long off a crossing route. when the routes go much deeper than that things tend to fall apart quickly.

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Touchdowns are fluky anyway.  Julio doesn't score a lot of TDs, Andre Johnson didn't have tons of TD's each year either.  Tt's his 2nd year with average QB's and run in the red zone offense.  If CMC wasn't about to set a record for yards in a season you might hear more about him.

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2 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

In his first 7 games, he was averaging 66 yards per game and had zero 100 yard games. That's not bad. That's still on pace for a 1000 yard season.

But, on Halloween Smitty publicly called out our WRs saying they couldn't beat man coverage and questioning their effort.

Since then, DJ is averaging 105 yards per game and came 5 yards short this past Sunday of recording his third straight 100 yard game. 105 yards per game would be on pace for a nearly 1700 yard season. Maybe the timing was just coincidence, but I'm sure DJ knew about what Smitty had said.

I still maintain 89 was calling out Samuel and just refused to single him out.  Samuel was the WR that looked so bad in SF. 

I think after SF Moore and Samuel had comparable targets on the year.  Ever since the WRs were called out Moore has had an increase in targets and Samuel a decrease.  The targets haven't been as evenly split. 

Was 58 to 54 after SF.  Since SF Moore has 36 to Samuel's 21

 

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1 hour ago, rodeo said:

not really when you remember how much allen struggles with deep balls. moore's 1 td was on a 10 yard pass where he created a lane for himself to break it long off a crossing route. when the routes go much deeper than that things tend to fall apart quickly.

Moore is pretty dynamic as a YAC WR and physical after the catch.  Think he lead all the NFL last year as a rookie in yards after contact.   So deep ball really isn't needed. Just surprised he hasn't found a way to reach the endzone more.  Law of averages considering how much he has touched it.   Gotta think that will course correct at some point. 

 

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He doesn't have a demanding loud personality so people like Smith at him weird but when they've actually made an effort to get him involved he's produced. He's also make several contested catches, so I'm not sure why people are saying he doesn't attack the ball--catches against GB, yesterday, and Jax come to mind. 

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30 minutes ago, joemac said:

He is a tailor made number 2 WR.  We still need someone reliable on productive on the other side of him.

I've always chuckled about the ridiculous expectations this board has of a #1 WR. If Moore maintains the pace he's currently on he'll have over 1200 yards. If he maintains his pace of the past three games he'll have WELL over 1200 yards.

It seems like some of y'all think that the only WRs worthy of being called a #1 WR are literally all-time great WRs.

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More on Samuel, he's pretty much what he was at Ohio State and probably fits the role of trick player, occasional outside speed guy better than full time starter. He's got talent and a role but they're probably just misusing him. Everyone wanted Tyreke Hill but that dude's a mutant, lower them expectations. I blame this on the coaching staff, of course

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