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The Cowboys may have a real roster battle on their hands at quarterback.
In the immediate aftermath of yesterday's game, a lot of voices are calling for the immediate promotion of Cooper Rush to QB2 in Dallas, preferably with Kellen Moore offered a coaching job and taken out of the depth chart altogether.
After all, while Cooper Rush was moving down the field seemingly with impunity en route to a 148.8 passer rating against the hapless Colts, Kellen Moore was killing drive after drive with a Blake Bortles-esque 67.8 passer rating.
Worse still, while Rush threw for a very strong 11.8 YPA, Moore only managed a meager 6.2 YPA. At first glance, that suggests Rush was throwing downfield with confidence, while Moore was playing Checkdown Charlie and consistently throwing short of the sticks.
To find out whether there is any truth to that, I reviewed each QBs first nines passes to figure out what was going on. Here's the detail of each play, with a summary at the bottom of the article.
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