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Bears Receiver Weighs In On Familiar Topic

DJ Moore apparently will be in a Super Bowl commercial and he's still hoping the Bears listen to his advice on the quarterback position.
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Bears Receiver Weighs In On Familiar Topic
Bears Receiver Weighs In On Familiar Topic

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DJ Moore made a past appearance on the St. Brown brothers' podcast while espousing the virtues of Mountain Dew.

Apparently it eventually landed him a commercial deal with the company that will be apparent to all watching the Super Bowl.

"Now Baha Blast is a big deal and on Sunday there's a big commercial coming out and I can't wait to see it," Moore said Thursday from Super Bowl radio row on Pro Football Talk. "I may or may not be a part of it."

Now Moore is hoping something else he once put his two cents worth in about also comes to fruition. 

That would be his quarterback, Justin Fields. 

It's going to take more than draft analysts raving about Caleb Williams for a month to change Moore's mind about who should throw him passes.

A month after Moore told Matt Eberflus and Ryan Poles at his exit interview that the Bears should keep Fields as quarterback, the receiver's opinion remains unaltered. A season when Moore was Fields' main guy with 96 receptions for 1,354 yards and eight TDs proved to be a selling point.

"For Justin to be here? I mean, it'll be amazing," Moore said then. "Nobody really wants to start all the way over and either having a losing season again or maybe have a, what's the quarterback from the Bengals when he came out? Joe Burrow? You could have that kind of season. You never know. It's a hit or miss. We're going to have to wait and see."

In Burrow's first year, the Bengals went 2-8-1 and then he suffered season-ending tears of meniscus, the ACL, MCL and PCL. However, he came back and two years later took the Bengals to a Super Bowl.

At Las Vegas Thursday, Moore agreed with PFT's Mike Florio and Chris Sims' on giving Fields another chance.

I'm going to stick with Justin and then trade back and get some more O-line and then we need some depth at wide receiver, anybody that can make anybody's job better on the field."

"You took the words right out of my mouth," Moore said. "You said everything I've been saying. His growth has been phenomenal. If you look at the games where he came back off of injury, he's been everything that you could ask out of a quarterback.

"Just putting players in position to win and getting the ball to his playmakers, and if he's got to do it himself, he does it himself and takes it like 50-60 yards and does his thing. That's all you can ask is just steady growth and that's what he did."

Moore doesn't find all the debate about quarterback a traumatic experience.

"No, I dont get exhausted because I know his growth, and then everything that he went through this past year and then the year that I came in," Moore said. "So just to see that year that they went 3-and-something-like-that (14) and then to turn around and just to add four more wins—growth, it had to do something with growth. So I'm proud of him. I know the fans love him."

Moore also appeared on Up & Adams with Kay Adams and got a little more detailed with what the Bears should do with their two first round picks.

"I'm going to stick with Justin and then trade back and get some more O-line and then we need some depth at wide receiver, anybody that can make anybody's job better on the field," he said.

If Moore's thoughts on his quarterback are listened to the way Mountain Dew listened to his thoughts on their drink, perhaps Williams will wind up getting traded to another team.

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Gene Chamberlain
GENE CHAMBERLAIN

Gene Chamberlain has covered the Chicago Bears full time as a beat writer since 1994 and prior to this on a part-time basis for 10 years. He covered the Bears as a beat writer for Suburban Chicago Newspapers, the Daily Southtown, Copley News Service and has been a contributor for the Daily Herald, the Associated Press, Bear Report, CBS Sports.com and The Sporting News. He also has worked a prep sports writer for Tribune Newspapers and Sun-Times newspapers.

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