I hope so. I've just never been impressed by him. It's not that he drops balls, it's just that he never seems to get open. I do recall one game last year that he had a couple big catches, but that was the only time I recall.
We'll he's no Jerry Rice, but I recall a bunch of times in 2010 where he was open and the QB couldn't get the ball to him. Every QB has their "go to" guys and Hartline wasn't one of those guys for Moore last year for whatever reason. He just never really looked Hartline's way much. Henne had no problem finding Hartline open though. At the start of 2011, Henne and Hartline hooked up 11 times in 19 attempts for 188 yards and a TD (in 3 games), but then Henne got hurt and Moore only threw 47 attempts (in 13 games) toward Hartline the rest of the year with 23 completions for 337 yards and zero TD's. Had Henne stayed the QB and you project his 3 game totals out over a 16 game schedule, Hartline would have had 58 catches for 1002 yards and 5 TD's. Now of course that's pure speculation, but still I thought Henne and Hartline were going to have a big year in 2011 and it started out strong, but then Henne got hurt and that was that.
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