Allen Robinson isn't surprised the Bears traded DJ Moore to the Bills

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What was Allen Robinson's initial reaction to DJ Moore's trade to the Bills?

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Did the scouts expect you to be what you've become? I don't think so. I don't think a lot of people did. For me, I definitely expected myself to play at this level. But when did you know that you were good? I've known since I was five years old. Anderson twice keeping this thing alive. Big plays. Stafford. Robinson. Chuck ball. Touchdown. Now, funny locker room stories. I don't know about any funny, man. Ben is a pretty serious locked-in dude. He's like that constantly. Every blue moon, Ben will crack one of those kind of evil smiles, if you will. With Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 104.3 The Score, and Allen Robinson joins us on our hotline, the Pro Bowl wide receiver, Chicago Bear from 2018 to 2021, co-host of the press release podcast.

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He is at Allen Robinson on X, and he joins us on Twitch, twitch.tv slash thescorechicago.

How does Allen Robinson view the Bears' roster changes following the trade?

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Allen, thanks for coming on on a very busy breaking news day here. I appreciate it. Thank you guys having me. What is your initial reaction to hearing the news that DJ Moore goes to be in Buffalo? His former OC is now the head coach in Joe Brady, and he's playing with Josh Allen and is traded away from the Bears. You know, something that doesn't surprise me, even at the combine, when you look at the players that the Bears currently have on their roster, they had a lot of young players on the offensive side of the ball. really perform and I would say outperform as far as expectation was in year one. And when you look at how to get Colston Loveland more opportunities, how to get Luther Burton more opportunities, sometimes you have to add by doing subtraction.

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And that in this case was DJ Moore. But at the same time, I feel like for DJ Moore, the opportunities that he wants to have and that he wants to look at as more of a number one guy, I think that fits in Buffalo well. Obviously, he has the familiar face with Joe Brady, who knows how to utilize a skill set like that, who just took over. There's been talks this entire offseason on how and will the Buffalo Bills add another weapon for Josh Allen, and they did that today. I think it's a win-win for both sides. Yeah, we know that DJ Moore has that star potential. And we've been using the chemistry word to talk about Caleb Williams and DJ Moore, which has kind of run hot and cold. Some of the biggest catches in franchise history by DJ Moore and then games where we're all looking up the statistics and saying, where's the targets?

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Where's the catches? Chemistry is a funny thing because it's like in your case, Alan, you... had great chemistry with Mitch Trubisky, and then it just wasn't the same with Justin Fields. Can you relate to that a little bit and how this opportunity, as successful as he was with the Bears, could be even better for DJ Moore?

What factors influence a receiver's production in the NFL?

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Yeah, and I think it's styles. And I say styles because even for myself with Mitchell, Mitchell always had the whole field at his disposal and being able to go through his reads. Sometimes a lot of the plays that were made with Justin Fields may be more of scramble-like plays. So now you're talking about what side of the field are these plays happening on? Is he being flushed out or is he escaping out of a particular side? Now, when you look at halves of the field and how that may take place with a mobile quarterback, even though Josh Allen is mobile as well, I think we've saw the consistency that he's had with guys like Stephon Diggs in his past to be able to get the ball to a number one receiver.

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We're talking to Alan Robinson, co-host of the press release podcast, former Bears receiver here on 104.3 The Score. Alan, one of the things I thought about, too, was we saw that DJ Moore's number of targets went down this year. And before I talk about a receiver's production, I always say, well, he can't target himself. And there are times where I feel like sometimes just a function of plays can limit whether or not you're in a quarterback's line of sight. How do you speak to that knowing, say, if you're getting a lot of pressure on the left side, that's where the weakness of the Bears line was last year, and you've got a rush on the left side, naturally, quarterback's going to roll out to the right.