It was a tipped Hail Mary and some fans are so dug in on Fields they’re hammering Mooney for not making a miraculous play falling backwards.
He made a hell of a play to even be in the position shown in that image (he is falling backwards and reacting to a tipped ball but still uses his hands to keep it off the ground), but must protect Fields at all costs.
For all the talk about how terrible Mooney is, he was a 1000 yard guy with a rookie Fields and the corpse of Andy Dalton throwing to him. He isn’t great by any stretch but he isn’t unplayably terrible either. That narrative wouldn’t exist if they weren’t in full cultist mode.