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Originally Posted by Woogieman
He still has an elite trait...his "separation burst". He recieves the ball very well from what little I have seen. I was hoping to see more from him by this point, and I think we will by December, but I imagine a great deal of time, effort, and reps have gone to JSS and MVS, in an attempt to get THESE veterans where they need to be...if it has taken them a few months to produce at a high level, you can imagine how long it takes a rook. Catching punts is mostly confidence...imho it is on the coaches for putting a unconfident player in a position to fail. He should do better, yes, but today's punters are kicking 50 yd knuckleballs and he should have a mental break.
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I do like his catch technique. It's like I said about MVS in the other thread - some guys you can watch play and understand why they drop balls. Then with others, their technique is better than their results.
MVS is firmly in the latter camp, IMO. I watch him play and just do not understand why he gets a rep as having stone hands. I think it really does come down to one bad year and one spectacularly bitchy quarterback throwing him the football and then gesticulating wildly when it doesn't go his way.
Watching Moore receive the ball, he does have good catch technique. He should be a really reliable underneath weapon when he figures out the routes and especially when he figures out how to diagnose defenses and work himself into the soft spots in zone coverages (which he simply wouldn't have seen as much due to the lower level of competition he faced in college). If he can start to do that more, he'll see more man matchups where he can use his short area quickness to get open.
I still don't see - at ALL - what Staylor sees with this idea that he's going to be a premier boundary receiver and not a guy who works primarily from the slot. But I still think a Sterling Shepard kind of player can still be had there.
There are things to like - he just has a fair ways to go yet.