Matt Moore's Biggest Weakness?

[Swarly]

Yep, I saw Stewart open several times in the flat. I still don't understand why we can't check down to our tight-ends and backs more frequently.

because they aren't as open as the defenders

maybe our quarterbacks should TRY to throw at the defenders and maybe they'll accidentally start completing passes

just thinking out loud here

[Brooklyn Bully]

He had plenty of passes to the left. He's just average, simple as that. Average QBs throw INTs. Average QBs make poor choices. Jake was average. Clausen might be average. We hope not though.

[Carl Spackler]

Several of his passes had better hang time than Baker's punts.

[dcjordan2]

The O-line was horrible towards the end of the game.. no pass protection. Moore made some poor decisions especially in the red zone, but why was Moore even throwing? I think Fox should've kept the ball on the ground more in the red zone instead of putting his inexperienced QB into that kind of a situation with no pass protection. I blame Fox more than Moore for those goal line picks. Did I mention the pass protection sucked?

[Cat'sGrowl]

I agree completely with this post.

Matt played like a rookie yesterday.

He made terrible decisions over and over again, and to top it off, threw floaters all day long. The fact that only threw 3 picks is a miracle in itself.

I wanna get behind this guy again, but that kind of decision-making is unacceptable in the NFL.

It reminds me of the little "vision cone" Madden had a few years back.

The QB's with the best field vision has a gigantic bright cone that covered the entire field.

The QB's with the worst had a tiny one.

Matt reminds me of the latter.

[Spaceballs83]

^^^ start Clausen. He threw 75TD passes in my first season on madden 11.

[Snake]

Matt's biggest weakness yesterday was the fact that he couldn't hold off 2 or 3 defensive linemen with his left hand and wait for receivers to get open.

There were plays that I thought he was telling the fat mama jokes about the OL in the huddle 'cause they were just letting guys fly by.

This was a lot of the problem. Now him throwing into quadruple coverage twice is all on him. Gross had a horrible day and let Moore get hit time after time. He needs to learn to hold his guy and save his QB.

Also its hard to go threw you whole progression when the rush is getting there quick as hell. Its Davidson's fault not calling short drops and more draws(that worked) and things to slow down the rush. He left Moore out there to Dry.

Clauson is not going to make any more of a difference if none of these things change. No QB short of Payton Manning would.

[gmonet]

Tunnel vision. I hoped that it would be fixed before the regular season started, but it wasn't.

I knew who he was going to throw to the second the ball was snapped. Defenses obviously knew too.

Jake Del homey redux!

[Vagrant]

Matt Moore's biggest weakness to me looked like the fact that he probably threw up in his helmet on the way onto the field. He looked NOTHING like the cocky, prepared, and mentally tough kid that walked on the field after the disaster of a season last year. I think the pressure got to him more than anything else. His best drive was the 2 minute drill to end the half when he just went out there, made his reads, and reacted to the defense. No thinking, just going out there and doing what a QB does.

He carried the weight of the entire QB competition, fan and person expectations, and the knowledge of being "the guy", out on the field with him yesterday and he collapsed under that weight.

Now, we Clausen has the same opportunity that Moore had last year if Moore isn't ready to play next week. Coming into a win win situation where you couldn't possibly be worse than the guy was last week, so you can go out there and play football. It wouldn't shock me if Clausen looked a lot better considering the circumstances.

To me, Matt Moore's biggest weakness yesterday was his desire to look like he deserved the starting job. He wasn't just playing against the Giants, he was playing against his own personal expectations as well as the expectations of the fans and coaches as well as his teammates. He never relaxed back there.

Plus, the out routes to the sidelines aren't his throw and the coaching staff has to see that as easy as we do. He doesn't have the pop in his arm to put those throws there with the amount of consistency required to make it work. It's the hardest throw you can ask a QB to make. He also tried to force big plays where none existed. Hoping that Barnidge would jump over 4 DB and make a TD catch was hopeful at best. Even the throw to Smith for a TD was somewhat badly thrown.

[Pimpdaddy]

Is he alowed to audible?

[ckad79]

To me, it's one of two things.

Either, Moore's late season success last year was a "fluke" because he was "new" and defenses weren't prepared for him, or we REALLY need a #2 receiver... BADLY!

I don't know.

I do feel that defenses finally got a chance to study game tape on Moore and figure him out and I think some fans are in for a shocker... that Moore isn't as good at his late season run led some to believe.

[pantherclaw]

Moore didn't look comfortable out there at all. Of course, the way the o-line played, I can't blame him for that.

He made some terrible throws. Throws we've never seen him attempt in the past.

[grateflday]

Biggest Weakness: Terrible WR corp (Smitty needs help bad)

Despite how bad one feels about the WR corp it does NOT excuse throwing the ball into quadruple coverage.

[LinvilleGorge]

His biggest issue was making horrible decisions in the redzone. I think that's obvious. I mean, all of his INTs were thrown into a cloud of blue shirts. On the first one, it was tough to even see a white jersey amongst that cluster fug of humanity that he threw into.