It's been a busy night here so i might have missed this with work and other obligations but just came across this. It says Beck to play 1st and 3rd quarters and Henne to play 2nd and 4th quarters. It was made before the Pennington trade became official, so it's either McCown is out or it's a chance for Beck to prove it on the field or possibly as showcasing in a trade (unlikely).
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Wishful thinking is trade to a team desperate for veteran backup like Pitt but i don't see it happening.
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Great news. Hope he's traded or released ASAP.
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If true, that goes against the other report that he was starting. My guess is because were in attempts to try and trade him now. My guess is with CP aboard, most teams know now we have to get rid of McCown, so were probably going to get stuck releasing him instead of trading. Why would anyone trade for him when they know we have to dump him now. Kind of sucks, but oh well
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Larryfinfan 17-0...Priceless Club Member
If Pitts is looking for a veteran backup to replace Batch for a while, there are other guys out there that won't have to be traded for. My guess would be they'd go after one of those guys (Leftwich, Culpepper, etc) before they'd want to trade for a guy for 6 weeks, half of the time being during the preseason...
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Well if true and this decision was made before the CP deal it bodes well for Beck. Sure, they probably knew they were going for CP and McCown was not in thier long range plans anymore however, it does show that Beck has shown enough to stay and see what he got in game situations.
On the other note.... Now who starts day 1. Will Chad be ready? Will Chad be the veteran backup/insurance policy? Yeah he is getting paid starters money in many peoples opinions, but.........
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As reported it will only cost us .5 mill against the cap, chump change.
Also it can be spread over 2 years.
That will not be a impediment to cutting McCown.Last edited: Aug 9, 2008 -
I must be one of the minorities in this, but I think we can roster 4 QB's. I believe the Pats did it Brady's rookie year. If you think about it we can hold onto him until some other team is in need of him. If we dump one extra special team guy to keep him I don't really think it will matter. I don't know the exact stats from last year, but I believe something like half the teams in the NFL had injuries to their starters at some point last year requiring that the back up started. If we can just wait until 2 or 3 teams QB's get hurt it may benefit us in next years draft.
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We'd be better served dumping McCown now, and if the need arises, signing him during the season. I'd rather have the depth on our special teams and other units. We're going to play tight, close games, so it's important our defense and special teams are up to the challenge.
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If we dump McCown now, do you seriously feel comfortable putting Beck in when Pennington gets injured? Which he is bound to do...
McCown has played and won games on horrible teams before, Beck has never won a game and still doesn't look like he has his sea-legs in his 2nd season. The only reason to keep him is to talk him up and get a better pick for him in next year's draft... -
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There's no reason to get rid of Beck.
Beck is cheaper than McCown and has some legitimate chance of becoming our future starting QB. The pre-season battles will largely determine who the successor will be.
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wouldn't it be fitting for mcnown to go to tampa bay to compete with his brother considering garcia and simms are on the outs with gruden? i could see either garcia/simms going to pitt and the other maybe to green bay(actually theres five other unknown teams that are interested in garcia/simms and they are the vikes,cheifs,lions,tigers,and bears o my).
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McCown will not play against the Bucs
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/miami-dolphins/story/635231.htmlBrown42000 likes this. -
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i hope Beck lights up the scoreboard!!!!!!!
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I hope one of them lights it up. Don't care who it is.
edit: so Pennington won't be playing tonight? Didn't expect him to but it'd be nice since I am going. -
I do wonder if he will be on the sidelinedolfan32323 likes this. -
what if Beck turns it on the next couple of weeks? I'm not giving up on him just yet. i like to see Beck with rb + rw in the backfield and a better OL before i give up on him, let him play