Another PSU alum chiming in… I tried giving the kid the benefit of the doubt all thru his PSU career, he just never stepped up. Absolutely has the tools, but never impressed w/ his leadership. Never thought the team totally ‘bought into’ Morelli. Guys would say the right things (we’re behind A Morelli, etc) but never w/ much conviction. ‘Ammo’ had plenty of opportunities to get it done….but rarely did. It’s a damn shame. Usually w/ guys like this I say ‘he tried his hardest and I still like him’, but w/ Morelli I am glad he has moved on. Mark it down- Morelli will never take a snap in the NFL.

Hi…first off I have to say I am an avid bills fan (so I might not post much) but I am very interested to see the progress of Morelli…the mental side is his biggest draw back…he was even critisized by his high school coach who said he couldn’t think…I do believe that he was not given the best circumstances here at PSU (b/c of our QB coach and lack of developement) but he also never really wanted to handle the pressure…he refused to talk to the media (which JoePa protected him) and he frequently lost his head during a game and he dwells on bad plays if he makes a bad play in the first half he is done for the rest of the game…he is not much of a team player either you could see it after he made that bad play other players would come to boost him and he wouldn’t even acknowledge them he just sulked…also (sorry this is turnig into a morelli bashing) but he doesn’t seem to stay focused in the game, i.e. against michigan this year (at the big house) it was a close game and he started getting into a verbal fight with the UM fans and he was the captain of the team…I am sorry but that is not how a leader should act and really he deserves all the critisizm he is given…he had all the tools in the world to suceed at PSU a solid running game a great core of recievers and a good line…he never passes to the middle or to the tight end, he tries to force the fade pattern way to much (which he over throws) and he has no pocket awareness…I am sorry for the rant and really I could keep going but I am tired of reliving this…I just didn’t want any Zona fans to get thier hopes up with this kid like we did…he was highly recruited and people were screaming for him his freshman year the sad thing is the same people were screaming for him to get off the field his jr and sr year….ohhh one more thing he thinks he can run, he has no scrambling ability at all, one instance was in a game against OSU and all we needed was 3 yrds for a 1st down and if he fell forward we had it but he tried to make a play sideways for more and got tackled short and we had to punt…you have been warned

I see the Black Shoe Diaries readers have already found this. I pretty much concur with everything they have told you so far. Can’t read defenses. Poor leadership. Not a team player. If the Cardinals were smart they would cut their losses and release this kid now. He has no future in the NFL.

I agree with what everyone has said above – this guy was so hyped coming in. I don’t know what went wrong. It was probably a mix of things – but with so much talent around him all he had to do was basically not screw things up. In many instances he found someway to do it. He made it very tough on the fans more than once.

Morelli is a plummetting stock….you may think that you can hold onto him and maybe his value will go back up, but I’m sorry to say that you’re wrong.
No leadership qualities, teammates simply do not respect him, can’t hold onto a football if his life depended on it, zero threat as a runner, and he crumbles when it’s crunch time.
If you look as his passing stats from his senior year, they look pretty decent. But if you look that the stats by game, you will see that he racked up all of his TDs and passing yards against teams like Temple, Buffalo, and Fla Intl. But when we played the big dogs, like OSU and Michigan, his lack of production killed us.
If you’re smart, you guys will drop him like a hot frying pan. Try Zack Mills instead….at least he has heart!