I do get the sense Moore has basically been a coach here since he got hurt before the 2016 season started. From the sounds of things, he was vital in helping coach up Dak going back to his rookie season. So he's basically put in 3 years (1 amazing, 1 quite good, and 1 lukewarm) as a position coach, despite the fact that he was doing the job before we even technically gave it to him.
That's actually the kind of aggressive promotion of young coaches that we've enviously watched other teams engage in. Hmm.
When McVay was hired as an NFL O.C., did his NFL job history look amazing? Nope.
He coached the Bucs receivers for one season in 2008. In Jon Gruden's stale offense. He coached Antonio Bryant and Ike Hilliard in a passing offense that basically shamed Jon Gruden out of coaching for a decade. La dee da.
He took a year off from the NFL then.
Then he came back to the NFL and was an assistant to the TE coach for the Commanders for one season. Chris Cooley, their TE at the time, was already a veteran finished product, so when he had a nice season, it was because Cooley was doing what he did. Not because of McVay's efforts as the assistant TE coach. If McVay was proving himself impressive in that job, it was behind the scenes.
He was then promoted from assistant TE coach to the actual TE coach. He did that for three years. Did he do amazing work with their TEs? Not particularly. Cooley quickly turned into useless garbage, but we'll blame age and injuries, not McVay. He got one good season out of Fred Davis his first year. Then his TEs were unproductive and bad for a whole season. And then he got one good half-season out of Jordan Reed in his last year as TE coach. And that was it for his 3 years as a TE coach. 1.5 good seasons over 3 years. Not sounding like the most promising up-and-comer at this point, huh?
And then he was handed the Offensive Coordinator job. Based on basically 3 or 4 underwhelming years as a position coach for stale offenses under stale head coaches (Jon Gruden and Mike Shanahan).
McVay's time as WR Coach in Tampa and TE Coach in Washington isn't any more fabulous than whatever work we've seen Moore do in coaching up Dak.
If you want "the next McVay" like people have clamored for, then you have to be willing to bravely promote a young offensive coach with a seemingly underwhelming and short job history... because that's how the actual McVay got his break too. But, no, everybody wants "the next McVay," a young coach... who magically has the job history of a proven coordinator in his 40's or 50's. It doesn't add up.