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Originally Posted by punch it in
Agree on your take about three games in. No doubt. Lets atleast get halfway through the season before we start sending anyone to the pro-bowl.
However (lol), I remember alot of people "scoffing" at the idea of Beck and Grossman going into the season. Not sure I would say everyone was high on Beck. If they were they were probably....well....high themselves.
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Yeah, well that's fair. There are always people on both sides.
But I specifically remember Cooley discussing Beck as one of the first topics when his radio show happened and his cohosts were picking his brain on some of the recent Redskins cluster f***s while Cooley was on the roster.
In regards to Beck he essentially said he was great in practice. Everyone on the field felt confident that Beck was the starter-to-be. They loved the way he handled himself, the way he practiced, etc. That includes players and coaching staff.
Which is why... at 3-1... with Grossman having a bad game... Shanahan brought Beck out for the second half against the Eagles (I was at that game... what an awful game... Rex threw like 3 picks in the first half...) and when Beck took the field... according to Cooley, everyone was like...
"What the f*** is this... what is wrong with him..."
He looked lost, confused, terrified. He ran around and just dumped the ball off every play.
They gave him a few more shots and finally everyone realized... this guy sucks, he's good in practice but he cannot handle the real thing.
And so ended the John Beck Experiment
