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Commentary: Beck experiment provides little growth, plenty of pain
Commentary: Beck experiment provides little growth, plenty of pain
GREG STODA Palm Beach Post Staff Columnist Monday, December 10, 2007 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. The risk is now the reality. The Dolphins had no business making John Beck their starting quarterback in the first place - he was working with a deck stacked against him - but they did so, anyway. Now, an 0-9 record has dissolved into the abject misery of an 0-13 mark. The latest installment came Sunday ...
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Did Miami start Beck at QB too soon?
NFL - Sports Rumors - Yahoo! Sports — ... too soon. Did the How deeply has the rookie quarterback been damaged? Have the Dolphins ruined Beck by testing him in too many circumstances predictable for their potential for failure? The Palm Beach Post raised the questions."He's learned a lot," said Dolphins head coach Cam Cameron, who is a rookie himself in the job of NFL boss. "He'll continue to grow. It's awfully early to put any final evaluation on him." Source: Palm Beach Post Related: ...

The Aftermath...
The Phinsider — ... In the Palm Beach Post, Greg Stoda writes a good article talking about the John Beck "experiment," as he calls it.  He points out that the risk that the Dolphins inherited by starting Beck has now come to fruition.  You'll remember we talked a lot about the high risk/high reward situation that the Dolphins would be going through by starting Beck.  You'll remember one of the things I worried about when the original idea of starting Beck was talked about was how he'd react if he struggled.  Would he lose confidence?  Would this hurt his progression? ...

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