Beason: Looking to be better

[chknwing]

A qb is much different than a linebacker. RG3 doesn't have to make cuts and change of direction on a steady basis. RG3 can be effective even if he's 80%. Beason needs to be 100% if he wants to be effective.

what? he doesnt make cuts of change of direction? did you not watch him play last season? He absolutly does.

[CRA]

A qb is much different than a linebacker. RG3 doesn't have to make cuts and change of direction on a steady basis. RG3 can be effective even if he's 80%. Beason needs to be 100% if he wants to be effective.

Eh, I think RGIII is overrated as a passer....he needs his legs at this stage of his career. If Shanhann hadn't run him last year....I think he would have sucked.

But Beason needs to be at 100%....he has always been an "effort" guy IMO. He isn't a freak like a Pep (easist reference despite the hatred) who can get by long at less than full go...

[koolkatluke]

A qb is much different than a linebacker. RG3 doesn't have to make cuts and change of direction on a steady basis. RG3 can be effective even if he's 80%. Beason needs to be 100% if he wants to be effective.

Have you watched RG3 play?

[Zod]

He had a bum shoulder too, that was keeping him from tackling.

[ed bell]

Considering that Davis came back, and we get to simply observe if Beason can too...I'm choosing to watch and enjoy. Many, many respectable posters here said Davis was beyond done...I think he has the drive.

[Mvp2014]

I think Beast comes back strong this year. Better? Not sure bout that one

[SOJA]

if he does my god are we going to have two nasty LB's

[panthers55]

I hope Beason is amazing this year given the fact he will be here and we can't dump him if we wanted to. I fear that he will never be the stud he was before the injury. We will adjust his duties to make him effective but honestly when we can release him without a huge amount of dead cap we likely will.

And yeah I was the one who told everyone he would struggle after I found the research article on the Houston Texans website in regards to Ryans injury 2 years earlier and the difficulty coming back from the achilles injury.

As for Davis, I really think that the success he had last year in not getting reinjured was due to Andrews doing the surgery and using the patellar replacement instead of previous docs using the hamstring muscle the first time and the cadaver ACL the second time. Of course his hard work was key as well but he rehabbed all three times equally as hard. If he had done the right surgery by the right surgeon the first time he wouldn't have missed 2 years.

[iamhubby1]

I hope Beason is amazing this year given the fact he will be here and we can't dump him if we wanted to. I fear that he will never be the stud he was before the injury. We will adjust his duties to make him effective but honestly when we can release him without a huge amount of dead cap we likely will.

And yeah I was the one who told everyone he would struggle after I found the research article on the Houston Texans website in regards to Ryans injury 2 years earlier and the difficulty coming back from the achilles injury.

As for Davis, I really think that the success he had last year in not getting reinjured was due to Andrews doing the surgery and using the patellar replacement instead of previous docs using the hamstring muscle the first time and the cadaver ACL the second time. Of course his hard work was key as well but he rehabbed all three times equally as hard. If he had done the right surgery by the right surgeon the first time he wouldn't have missed 2 years.

T o the first point. If healthy, and really, this should be a given, and with his cap hit, it should be a wash. None of his injuries are life threatening. He has had two years to recoup. Why can't he be healthy and beast out like normal?

To the second point. If Anderson would have done the original surgery, we wouldn’t have lost a year and a half of Thomas’s career. Too bad on that front. Also, glad he doesn’t hold a grudge against those unfortunate souls that took away almost two years of his career.

[panthers55]

T o the first point. If healthy, and really, this should be a given, and with his cap hit, it should be a wash. None of his injuries are life threatening. He has had two years to recoup. Why can't he be healthy and beast out like normal?

To the second point. If Anderson would have done the original surgery, we wouldn’t have lost a year and a half of Thomas’s career. Too bad on that front. Also, glad he doesn’t hold a grudge against those unfortunate souls that took away almost two years of his career.

Beason will be healthy but the problem is that achilles injuries don't heal so that you have the same explosiveness as before the injury. Players learn to compensate and can often regain most of their function which for you or I would be fine. The problem is that in the NFL, the difference between making a tackle and missing it is less than a split second. Beason relied on his athleticism to make plays in the past and now can rely on his knowledge and understanding of the game which will help. And if we were paying him 5 million or less, he would be a keeper. But we paid him as the best middle linebacker in the league and he is not playing that position and won't. He will likely not even be the best Will linebacker in the league. He is not worth what we will be paying him and his salary goes up the next few years. As the cap stays flat there will be increased pressure to dump older higher paid players in favor of younger cheaper ones who play almost as good.

[Toundra]

I can't wait to see Beason, Davis, Kuelchy behind the big 4

[BelgianPantherFan]

In Beason we trust!

Add another DT from the draft, Beason and Davis healthy, and Ryan is already shitting his pants.

[Peppers90 NC]

Several of us were saying that he would not be near 100% last year due to the type of injury. But, there were still those on here (those whose football acumen comes from Madden) who kept saying he was superman and normal recovery times did not apply to him.

And most of us with reasonable expectations for Beason's recovery were huge Kuechly draft pick supporters

[French Navy]

if he does my god are we going to have two nasty LB's

We had two last year? Really hoping for a third :)