Protecting Beason from himself

[CRA]

One play is all it takes. Beason plays like Smitty, 100%, hair-on-fire, no-holds-barred, animal. I don't think there is anything the staff can do but wind him up and let him go then we watch and hope for the best.

Staff can limit his reps....and the scenarios to a degree he is playing.

Beason last played a game week 1 of 2011....no preseason, little camp in 2012 after missing last year. He isn't ready to play a full game as a starter week 1.

[SIGCHI222]

Staff can limit his reps....and the scenarios to a degree he is playing.

Beason last played a game week 1 of 2011....no preseason, little camp in 2012 after missing last year. He isn't ready to play a full game as a starter week 1.

Oh, no, I completely agree with your statement. I am just saying even if he was only allowed to play one play a game for the first 3 games, he is going to play that one play balls to the wall and all it takes is one play. If something is going to happen there isn't much we can do to stop it.

[lightsout]

I think he needs to be smart as an individual. Definitely start him if the trainers feel he's good to go. However, if he starts feeling some stiffness or some pulling in his hammy, he needs to communicate that. The last thing we need is a hamstring tear in week 1.

[DeeJay]

Is Luke the future of the linebackers?

One more bad injury and I don't think beason would come back....

[Rip Saw]

Didnt we beat T Bay 2x last year without Beason? I hope he isnt put in at all but allowed another week to heal up - if we cant beat these guys without Beason, our season will be a disaster anyway.

[La Pantera]

Is Luke the future of the linebackers?

One more bad injury and I don't think beason would come back....

Thomas Davis says hello.

[Ivan The Awesome]

I say let him play.

[CRA]

Didnt we beat T Bay 2x last year without Beason? I hope he isnt put in at all but allowed another week to heal up - if we cant beat these guys without Beason, our season will be a disaster anyway.

In fairness, Tampa pretty much beat themselves to finish last year.....opponents just finished the job by kicking their teeth in.

V Jackson, not having Blount handicap their entire offense as the only RB and a new coach should work wonders......overnight.

But Beason week 1 won't be Beason.....can't define what he can do for us off of this game. Beason probably won't look all that great...hasn't played. You don't literally take a guy off the shelf for a calendar year and insert him into a D and expect big things

[beastson]

I said this before, it is the exact same scenario

He has to be limited. And there's no sit him... no he NEEDS to play

This is why preseason was so valuable

[Captain Obvious]

Play him. He is collecting a paycheck, let him earn it. Otherwise its just another waste of a roster spot.

[Snake]

If Beason is healthy he will be at Mike. Hamstrings can be tricky but Smith overcame one so Beason can. Besides we will jump on the Buc's early and often so our guys will have a break and want be overextending themselves.

[Cape Fear Cat]

I think, given his lack of reps in preseason, you bring him back a little slowly. Not so much because of the injury - I think that's probably well healed - but because it will take him a few quarters to really get back to his old groove. Given our many blessings at LB, we have the luxury of rotating him in and out without loosing too much in the way of production.

[Rubi]

Id like to see Beason be used cautiously until after the bye. Then unleash him

[Razeyfingers]

Agreed, it ought to take Beason two weeks at least before he's in form. Some of the guys in the NFL are made out of something else than the rest of us though, never can really say with 52, but it ought to be at least 2 weeks before his body is tempered and numbed to the pain again.