(08-20-2021, 10:29 AM)CanDoBetter Wrote:

(08-20-2021, 09:43 AM)Dewboy01 Wrote: I don't get the Minshew angst.  While I agree Lawrence should be getting all of the 1st team reps, I would still rather have Minshew as the back up over Beathard.  And I'm certainly not going to over-react to the 1st pre-season game of the season.  I'd rather look at the regular season performance of both Minshew and Beathard since they've been in the league - I think that gives us a better idea of what to expect from both of them:

                Completion %      TD      Int      Rating      W/L
Minshew        62.9%            37       11        93.1       7-13
Beathard        58.6%            18       13        81.1       2-10

Both played for equally bad teams, other than last year when the Jags were the worst team in the league, and while Minshew was only 1-7 as a starter last year, his rating went up from 91.2 to 95.9 - and his QBR went up from 44.6 to 51.7 - the average QBR for his all of his starts is 47.4 while Beathard's is 40.9.  Neither of them is going to lead us to the Super Bowl, but I think Minshew has shown more when it actually counts, in the regular season.

The difference is that Minshew was the designated starter. Beathard was the backup of the backup that had to play when Garoppolo and Nick Mullens were injured. If you follow the Niners you'd know that they drafted Trey Lance because they know their team imploded when Mullens had to play. They simply can't have a starter made of glass when the team is in an open super bowl window. At the very least they need a good backup and that was neither Mullens nor Beathard. 

Beathard was even worse than Mullens.

I'm not sure it matters why Beathard played, or if he started as the back up to the back up - he started 5 consecutive games in 2017 and 5 consecutive games in 2018, and also started the last 2 games of the season last year, so he's had periods where he was in effect the "starter" and he knew he was playing, the team and coaches knew he was playing and the game plan was based on that - those results are not good.  Minshew certainly didn't begin his rookie year as the starter, the offense was designed around Foles, and Minshew had to step in as the back up.  Even last year there was so much uncertainty around the QB position and who was getting the start going forward each week.  Bottom line, Minshew has shown more than Beathard as a starter in regular season games when it counts

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