I think having a veteran mentor for a young QB is a good thing - even for Dak. But especially if Rush actually has to play this year I think we'll be glad to have someone with more than one year's experience to help prepare him. And yeah maybe that should be a QB Coach's job, but I've heard too many young QBs talk about the value of having a veteran mentor to discount it.
Gotta keep up the Garrett sucks narrative.
Don't really think thats a Garrett issue. Pretty sure everybody knows that Moore is Linehans boy.
People who know football far better than you or I prefer to have veteran QB mentors. And I'm not saying this in the "Garrett knows more than you" sense.... I mean well respected guys like Parcells. Many other coaches subscribe to this.... Super Bowl winners, Hall of Famers.
What is Wade Wilson's job again? And what is his experience?
Dak mentioned how Sanchez helped him out a good bit early on, so I don't see the issue having Moore back either.
I agree.
It's not that it doesn't have value. We just don't see that the value changes by making him a coach as opposed to a player taking up a roster spot.
My guess is that it's different when you are standing next to the guy and he's wearing shoulder pads, rather than a headset. Coaches -- and not just this staff -- have a long history of prioritizing backup experience especially when mentoring young guys. Kellen Moore doesn't have tons of starting experience but apparently he mentally knows the system cold, and the staff wants a guy in Rush and Prescott's ear.
And I disagree with that. It may be different if the guy who is your coach hasn't played for over a decade like Wade Wilson. But I see no reason why someone like Moore couldn't be hired as an assistant QB coach. Having literally played QB the past few years would give them the same ability to relate to a player as having pads on. Hell if we want to be silly and pretend like pads give a guy some special powers to relate throw some shoulder pads on an assistant QB coach like Moore (Who would be perfect for a coaching position) and save the roster spot. Lets face it, you want Moore here basically as a coach/mentor but want nothing to do with him actually playing football. What kind of sense does it make to have someone like that on your roster but not on the coaching staff?
You serious, Clark?
Not sure what experience a couple of piss poor outings with a loaded team around him could possibly matter. He's awful and the team would get smothered with 9-man fronts with him behind center.