Sure. He wasn’t impressive. The Robe statue out front of the Tigue has the same ability to get open as our receiving core though and about the same softness of hands. He was also getting blitzed every play because our playcaller has the imagination of a mop bucket. I wouldn’t put Beale out to pasture yet.
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The offensive line got pushed around throughout the game. We will need a QB who can take off and run in a flash.
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Not a hot take, but an overly optimistic take after the worst offensive performance in years
Beale puts up 60 against Mcneese and doesn’t give the starting job for the next 3 years.
Dez gets ‘BEALE’ tattooed on his back and we celebrate 3 conference championships in a row
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However and whatever it takes
Sounds like Howard was practicing, not moving well but a good sign if he was in fact practicing..
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Our X Wrs had bad games and drops they are also our least experience WR position, they will bounce back and play better. We had our backside WR open they were not targeted #0 and 13 who are also our more experience WRS… #0 didnt get.target until the last possession and got the PI call…QB have to make reads and get through progression. #0 has made big plays before in the last two years for this team. I’m sure Des will recognize that and make the adjustments…Jusy get the ball to your experience guys, Davis, Perry, and Williams….From there everyone else will fall in line
He’s not made it a year without losing a QB or 2 or 3 to an injury for a period of time. Now this happens in week one. I’m sure he’s just feeling cursed.
This staff knows best but I’m personally going with Lunch. With the OL on roller skates give me a dude that can move in the pocket. Plus, the games he has played at QB he’s lit it up.
If it’s Beale, and he is listed at QB2, I’m here for it.
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Curiosity made me ask. Whata up with uncle wa wa title
One of his younger nephews calls him uncle wawa.
Thanks!!!
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If only our fortune was that good but with Des’s tenure Beale will likely get injured at some point. We can’t have healthy QBs
I watched some of the replay. I think walker got hurt on the 4th down run on the drive before. He falls forward and gets popped on his left side on the way down. He gets up and seemed off. Next throw he goes down.
6:30 mark 4th quarter. Walker gets up, hands the ball to the ref and limps towards the sideline
Des said in the presser on Saturday that his injury was non contact
No contact when he went down. It was the previous play. Go watch the replay of the 4th down and tell me what you think.
There’s a chance Walker didn’t know that hit hurt him till he tried to throw again.
I’d rather not watch that abortion of an offensive performance ever again.
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He was limping coming onto the field on the last drive. It happened on that 4th down run you indicated
That’s just looking at the numbers but visibly if you watched a couple throws you saw the arm talent. You can throw the bowl game last year out, he was a true freshman. So, if you do that, you have one drive to judge him on this year, and the argument is he was 0 for 6.
My counter is nearly every drop back he took had pressure (2 or 3 he had to roll out the pocket). I think, but didn’t see the whole field, that they were blitzing knowing we were going to throw it… if it wasn’t a blitz or a stunt, we have much bigger OL issues. So, seeing that, as a play caller having a young player, what did you do to help him? Did you call screen passes behind the pressure to get them to back off? Why is 95% of the route combos we run out breaking routes or just straight verticals, the hardest throw for any level QB to make is out breaking routes especially to the field side? Why is so many pass plays naked bootleg with a flood concept having sometimes only 2 guys in the pattern? We are we playing 3rd string WRs as much as we do? These are all bigger questions you have to ask before judging any QB whether its Walker or Beale. Des is a very bland play caller. His offensive style in run first, pass off play action with very simple route combinations usually including slipping someone out the backfield as any easy throw and catch. It’s not a big chunk play offense and it’s not one designed for a QB to thrive throwing the football. Stats may look good with completion percentage if you take the dink and dunk throws Des wants them to take and your WR’s get you YAC for total yards but you’ll never look at our QBs in this offense and say “Wow, they are very good and I pass game is unstoppable”. Des does not and will not call plays like that, consistently enough for someone to make that assessment. He just wants a QB who can manage the offense and not turn the ball over. He’s offensive style is play to not lose not play to win. It’s all built off running and staying ahead of the sticks, if anything goes off script we are f#cked. It’s no different than a veer, wing T, or triple option offense just calls bootlegs a little more than those offenses do. So just keep all that in mind when judging his QBs.
So that brings me to my point, go back and look the throw Beale made on a 10-15 yard out to Wade I think. Barely missed him laying out but it was a bullet on the toughest throw in football that he didn’t miss by much but atleast his miss was to the correct side. Also go look at the seed he threw down the seem to our blocking or backup TE. Basically, hit him between the numbers 15-20 yards down the field on a seam. Those two throws are impressive. That’s why I said he didn’t look bad. Bad situation with another team getting constant pressure because they know you not going to run. You whole pass play concept is built off play action. They are sending pressure and you’re not threating them with screens to back off. Pocket constantly being moved. The coaches did not help that kid.
If that’s how you’re looking at it, Walker didn’t look bad either if the drops were caught. He goes for 16/22 with 250ish yards and 2TDs. His WR’s cost us the game.
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This! Sure Walker didn’t play his best but the receivers dropped balls and ran the wrong routes. Had they done what they did in practice, we win that game.
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