fanarchist
10-04-2011, 02:16 AM
That's what the preseason is for and Beck really did not get it done that well.
I am no Rex apologist. He makes me cringe often.
But the "let's throw Beck out there and see what happens" argument that you are making is absurd. First, we could be worse off and thereby squander our hard-bought early gains. Second, Shanny sees Beck every day in practice and therefore has a fair idea what he can do, so Shanny has no reason to throw things against the wall to see what sticks. Third, the "let's see what happens" argument can be applied to others on the roster. It is also coherent to argue that we don't know what Crompton would do so we should throw him out there. Heck, one could argue as well that we should throw Doughty out there as QB - he's never been tested by fire in that role, either.
You do not seem to appreciate how absurd the "let's just throw Beck in there and see what happens" argument is.
Yet again you bungle the point by taking it to extreme levels of absurdity. Beck is a guy, at the QB position, who has been in the system, with offensive playbook in hand, for 1 year and 3 months now. He is a guy who understands the system, and convinsingly owns the backup role on this squad. He was in an open QB competition vying for the starting role with Rex Grossman this offseason. It is highly debatable, in my opinion, that Grossman out played Beck to the point where he dominated the competition so conclusively that he won the job unquestionably. To deminish his role with such emphatic asininity, to the point where you would juxtapose Beck with Doughty at the QB position, is more of a slap in the the face to the Shanahans and their personnel decisions then I could ever make with a simple plea to see a guy play in a game scenario before the verdict has been rendered. I'm content waiting for Grossman to continue to make the same mistakes, because with every one Beck inches closer to his shot. He may flop, he may be average, he may impress. I don't know. I never claimed to. But I atleast have enough faith in the Shanahans to believe that they consider their backup good enough to keep him one injury away from starting.
I am no Rex apologist. He makes me cringe often.
But the "let's throw Beck out there and see what happens" argument that you are making is absurd. First, we could be worse off and thereby squander our hard-bought early gains. Second, Shanny sees Beck every day in practice and therefore has a fair idea what he can do, so Shanny has no reason to throw things against the wall to see what sticks. Third, the "let's see what happens" argument can be applied to others on the roster. It is also coherent to argue that we don't know what Crompton would do so we should throw him out there. Heck, one could argue as well that we should throw Doughty out there as QB - he's never been tested by fire in that role, either.
You do not seem to appreciate how absurd the "let's just throw Beck in there and see what happens" argument is.
Yet again you bungle the point by taking it to extreme levels of absurdity. Beck is a guy, at the QB position, who has been in the system, with offensive playbook in hand, for 1 year and 3 months now. He is a guy who understands the system, and convinsingly owns the backup role on this squad. He was in an open QB competition vying for the starting role with Rex Grossman this offseason. It is highly debatable, in my opinion, that Grossman out played Beck to the point where he dominated the competition so conclusively that he won the job unquestionably. To deminish his role with such emphatic asininity, to the point where you would juxtapose Beck with Doughty at the QB position, is more of a slap in the the face to the Shanahans and their personnel decisions then I could ever make with a simple plea to see a guy play in a game scenario before the verdict has been rendered. I'm content waiting for Grossman to continue to make the same mistakes, because with every one Beck inches closer to his shot. He may flop, he may be average, he may impress. I don't know. I never claimed to. But I atleast have enough faith in the Shanahans to believe that they consider their backup good enough to keep him one injury away from starting.