(08-20-2021, 10:43 AM)homebiscuit 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.

Minshew is regressing. You can see it.

Maybe You can see it, but after one meaningless preseason game - I don't see it.  Everyone talks about how teams started game planning for Minshew in his second year, to take away the things he can do, and while I did see some of that last year - his QB Rating AND his QBR both increased from year 1 to year 2.  How about maybe the Jags were just historically bad last year as a team at basically every position (other than maybe RB)?  And yes Minshew was certainly a part of that - but we're not talking about him starting and whether he can lead us to the Super Bowl - we're talking about the back up....and Minshew has shown significantly more when the lights are on and the games actually count than Beathard. Just my .02 cents   

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