Anthony Herron

in a lot of ways was necessary to continue to build on what the bears just did this past season, but it can be met with a tinge of, you know, sort of a,

I guess it tends to sadness to a certain extent because it would have been fun to watch DJ Moore continue to mature and develop with this team if it made sense.

But this makes more sense.

So DJ Moore is a playmaker.

I view DJ Moore as a playmaker in my mind, by my definition, more so than a pure wide receiver.

When you're looking at the pure wide receiver, you're hoping for perhaps someone who's more graceful in their movement ability, more precise in their route running, snatches the ball more consistently with confident, quiet hands, presents a big catch radius and a big receiving target to quarterbacks that at this point in Caleb's development he seems more comfortable with.

But as far as this is due, when you get the rock in his hands, and you can do it on a seven route, you can do it on a nine route, you can do it as a running back, you can do it with screen passes, there's a level of bravery and a nose for the end zone that DJ Moore has always played the game with, and

It hasn't been in a mode that looks like your traditional wide out, and I believe that certainly would seem to be at least a part of the piece to the puzzle for why he's no longer with the Chicago Bears.

But as far as just a dude where you find a way to get him the ball and there's a chance he's going to score, there have been few players in the time he's been in the National Football League that have done that with the consistency, that have presented that threat consistently.

to the opposing defense in as wide a variety of ways as DJ Moore has.

It's multi-level, because for DJ Moore himself...

his size, his stature as a wideout.

If he caught the ball in the way that he did, where for the most part, he tends to be a body catcher.

This, as I've talked to you guys about, talked about it on this station and over on Fox 32 and everywhere else.

DJ Moore is most consistently a body catcher.

And so for the quarterback who's throwing him the football, the fact that he's not

six four then that presents a smaller target for the quarterback to comfortably try to fit the football into now we did see there were certainly moments throughout dj moore's career i take back to the play against cleveland another amazing throw caleb made amazing grab where dj moore climbs the ladder to go get it and i went and got it with his body not with his hands but

There have been some examples of DJ Moore doing that, to be the consummate Spiegel-Guaghi guy.

But that wasn't what he specialized in.

He wasn't exceptional in that regard.