Matt Harmon & Scott Pianowski analyze newly-acquired Buffalo Bills WR DJ Moore. After being traded from the Chicago Bears to pair up with former MVP Josh Allen, can the veteran receiver have a bounce-back season and is he worth fantasy managers’ investments?
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Scott, you are always the guy who t- says to me, you know, when- once the cheese goes bad, it doesn’t get un-bad, right?
Like, going one direction, that’s the way it’s going.
Do you think you’ll break that rule for a guy like D.J.
Moore, who there’s no question from a statistical basis has declined the last two years.
But do you think there’s enough there to kind of like excuse that, going back with the former coach?
Is D.J.
Moore someone you’re gonna be in on this year?
Yeah, I think so, because I trust Allen, because he’s got the history with Brady, and because he’s going to a team that should be structured for him to get anywhere from like 130 to 145 targets.
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He– Th- that was never gonna be him and the Bears, and that coaching staff inherited him, and they drafted, you know, kind of over his head, and we could see the writing on the wall for his role diminishing last year.
But j- he’s going He’s getting, I think, rescued at the right time, is the way I would phrase it.
I think that’s the right way to look at it.
And like I said, there’s just, there’s enough there not to excuse the production, ’cause I think there are some parts of why he didn’t fit into Ben Johnson’s offense that will be instructive when we’re analyzing D.J.
Moore going forward.
But I think he, from a quarterback standpoint, he fits with Josh Allen.
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You know, I’ve mentioned this before, like at the time of the trade that, you know, Josh has s- said, said to me previously that like, oh yeah, he, he’s, he doesn’t mind if like his number one wide receiver’s not running the route at the right depth.
It’s like, just get open, essentially.
I think D.J.
Moore is a guy who can still do that, just didn’t really fit with what Ben Johnson wanted to do.
and obviously we’ll be talking about those Bears pass catchers over the course of the off-season.