{"id":36601,"date":"2025-07-03T23:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36601\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:52:09","slug":"foster-moreau-saints-starting-quarterback-job-is-anyones-job-for-the-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36601\/","title":{"rendered":"Foster Moreau: Saints starting quarterback job is anyone’s job for the taking"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Saints drafted Tyler Shough in the second round, and they have to hope he wins the competition to replace Derek Carr as the team\u2019s starting quarterback. But the rookie will have to beat out Spencer Rattler and Jake Haener.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think this front office is just going to hand him the keys. I think he\u2019s truly going to have to prove it<\/a>,\u201d Saints tight end Foster Moreau said on Sirius XM NFL Radio. <\/p>\n

Haener, a fourth-round pick in 2023, has played eight games with one start. Rattler, a fifth-round pick in 2024, has appeared in seven games with six starts. That\u2019s 15 more appearances and seven more starts than Shough has.<\/p>\n

The Saints don\u2019t yet have a good feel for who will win the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been part of quarterback competitions before, back in college \u2014 not me personally \u2014 but I\u2019ve gotten to see them for a long time,\u201d Moreau said. \u201cMost of the time you kind of feel like guys really have an edge on each other. \u2018The starter is coming back from last year, but we didn\u2019t really like his production.\u2019 Or different stuff like that in terms of familiarity with the player. Genuinely, we really do have a full-blown 33, 33, 33 percent competition [among] those three guys. We\u2019ve even got another guy, Hunter Dekkers, is a lefty, and he can really spin it, too, to be honest with you. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s anyone\u2019s job for the taking. I\u2019m excited to see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The competition for the job began May 10 when Carr announced his retirement<\/a>, citing a labral tear and degenerative changes in his rotator cuff in his right shoulder. That opened the door to Shough potentially starting as a rookie.<\/p>\n

Shough, 26, played 42 games at three different schools in seven college seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a great guy. Hard-working dude. One of the first guys in the building, which is awesome,\u201d Moreau said. \u201cYou always love to see that, especially from a young cat, especially from a guy at a premiere position. He\u2019s got a great personality, a really funny sense of humor, and he works, and he\u2019s his own worst critic. I don\u2019t know how much more I can expect from especially a young, albeit 26-year-old, rookie quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Moreau calls the competition \u201creally fiery\u201d with no leader in the clubhouse heading into training camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome guys have looked good on Sundays. Some guys have looked good on other days,\u201d Moreau said. \u201cIt really just depends on who can string together the most successful practices during camp, during the preseason games. Who\u2019s really going to spin it when the bullets fly?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saints drafted Tyler Shough in the second round, and they have to hope he wins the competition…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-36601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114791996487660535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}