“We feel great about Trevor and it’s just a matter of putting the best five out there on the field, giving ourselves opportunities and the versatility that that provides,” Moore said. “Trevor’s physicality and his demeanor and the way he plays, we feel like guard presents him a great opportunity.
“We know the great progress he has made at tackle as well, so we feel like this gives us a really good opportunity to evaluate him at that guard spot, let him keep doing what he does and good things are going to happen.”
Moore said there was no concern about moving Fuaga back to right tackle, the only position Fuaga had played before moving to left tackle for the Saints.
“I don’t really care about left-tackle, right-tackle components,” Moore said. “In this league, the edge rushers go wherever the matchups go and they’re going to go wherever they line up. So, (Fuaga) has spent a lot of time at right in his whole life, he spent (time) at left last year. Sometimes I think we make bigger deals out of it than it really is, because you talk to Tali and he said, ‘OK, cool.’ Next day, it’s easy as can be.
“You’ve got to have really, really good tackles on both sides. At the end of the day that’s what this thing is about. Edge rushers are going to line up in a lot of different spots and so you’ve got to have the talent on both those spots, and we feel like with Kelvin and Tali, we’ve got two guys that feel great about tackle.
“Trevor’s going to be able to play guard, which is going to be a tremendous asset for us, gets us really good players on the field. And we know those guys can play other positions as well. We feel like we’ve got a really deep crew there, as well.”
The goal, he said, not only is to put the best five on the field, but also is to establish cohesion with the group.
“I think one thing with the offensive line: That group has to be really, really interconnected,” Moore said. “So much of it is verbal but so much it is non-verbal. Those guys are in combinations and working together more than probably any other group in this entire game.
“The right tackle and the right guard spend so many times in combination blocks and they have to be perfectly aligned and hit it at the same time, and have these verbal communications. But at times there’s non-verbal communication and so the more time these guys spend time together jelling, communicating, being on the same page is a huge, huge advantage for any offense in this league.”