{"id":1857,"date":"2010-12-20T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2010-12-20T20:41:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T01:41:55","slug":"another-big-weekend-for-moats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=1857","title":{"rendered":"Bill Simmons Weighs In on Moats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Moats didn&#8217;t end up winning Rookie of the Week, but things have still been looking up lately for the\u00a0JMUSB favorite.\u00a0Friday afternoon\u00a0multiple people brought it to our attention that\u00a0he was mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=simmonsnfl2010\/week15picks&amp;sportCat=nfl\">Bill Simmons&#8217; weekly NFL column<\/a>. The Sports Guy offered his take on Moats and his role in ending Brett Favre&#8217;s consecutive games streak.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I know Moats has to be diplomatic and say things like, &#8220;That&#8217;s not the way I want to get my name out there, for hurting somebody,&#8221; but part of me wonders if he should be playing this up and milking his 15 minutes of fame. If this were professional wrestling, Moats would have gone on &#8220;Monday Night Raw&#8221; the following night, renamed himself &#8220;The Legend Killer&#8221; and done the whole &#8220;I didn&#8217;t just kill a career, I killed off a legend!&#8221; routine as the crowd went crazy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely a funny take, but it points out something that I was thinking about all week. Moats really has been handling himself with a ton of class. He&#8217;s been respectful, but has thankfully fallen short of heaping empty and cliched praise\u00a0Favre&#8217;s way. In his interview on Sportscenter, his quotes in papers across the country, and especially on Twitter, Moats he&#8217;s just coming across like a guy who&#8217;s enjoying every minute of his rookie season. He&#8217;s exactly the sort of guy I like to root for as a fan. And it seems like Bills fans agree with me.<\/p>\n<p>Getting his name in columns, isn&#8217;t Moats main objective however. He&#8217;s much more focused on getting the quarterback and helping his team win football games. He did both on Sunday, racking up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/article\/20101219\/SPORTS03\/101219009\/1021\">1.5 sacks in the Bills 17-14 win over Miami<\/a>. That&#8217;s three games in a row, where Moats has made an impact. And as a Giant fan, Moats&#8217; play provided a\u00a0nice highlight for me\u00a0on an otherwise indescribably awful NFL Sunday.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D1857&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Moats didn&#8217;t end up winning Rookie of the Week, but things have still been looking up lately for the\u00a0JMUSB favorite.\u00a0Friday afternoon\u00a0multiple people brought it to our attention that\u00a0he was mentioned in Bill Simmons&#8217; weekly NFL column. The Sports Guy offered his take on Moats and his role in ending Brett Favre&#8217;s consecutive games streak. 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In fact if you have a few hours to kill\u00a0head over to Mister Irrelevant and watch\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Football&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/moats-favre.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1173,"url":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=1173","url_meta":{"origin":1857,"position":3},"title":"Trio of Solid Debuts for the Dukes","date":"August 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Three former JMU Dukes got their first taste of live action in the NFL pre-season last night. Scotty McGee and Mike Caussin suited up for the Jags as they faced off with the Eagles, and Arthur Moats and the Bills played the Redskins at Fed Ex. 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