Moore was kidding and having fun with all this, because he refuses to let the current hysteria over the second-year wideout become the thing it’s been outside the locker room and practice field. He even joined the knot of reporters around Jaycee Horn and asked a question about Legette, and Horn just shook his head and said, … “Nah, man,” and walked away.
“I was just trying to help my man, they was grilling my mans,” Moore said when it was over, adding that when reporters are gone and it’s just them, the conversations aren’t terribly different.
“Hey boy, pick your head up,” he described a recent conversation. “You’re going to get your s— right, don’t think too much about it. We all go through it. It’s all about, you know, coming back the next day with a different mentality.”
And that’s why the Panthers are confident this two-game stretch, in which Legette has four catches for 8 yards, is a temporary condition.
They’ve seen the work he’s done this offseason, the supplemental Jugs machine workouts with Chuba and others, the time he’s put into it. And when head coach Dave Canales was asked Wednesday, he said he felt bad because he hadn’t put Legette in the right spots. Tetairoa McMillan began an answer about his teammate by saying, “I’m not worried about him at all. I know that come Sunday, he’s going to show up, and the main thing for me, and what I see in him, is his confidence. He’s a confident dude, and he’s staying confident regardless of the outcome, regardless of whatever’s going on.”
