Give Beanie His Due

[blindseyed]

He did great. I wish the whole team could all be on the same page at the same time, tho!

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Love the potential of Beanie and he played really well yesterday. He is physical...especially when he gets to the 2nd/3rd level.

Anyone else notice that he slips a lot...seems to lose his footing quite a bit?

He had a great day but yeah in the first quarter he tried to cut a couple times and ended up on his butt (which looked odd). It stopped being an issue after that. Maybe changed his cleats?

 

[WildBB]

He had a great day but yeah in the first quarter he tried to cut a couple times and ended up on his butt (which looked odd). It stopped being an issue after that. Maybe changed his cleats?

Dude is always slipping, you'd think he'd have it figured out on his home turf by now. It seemed to get better finally later though, your right a/t.

 

[RugbyMuffin]

not the first time for Beanie

Running like that ?

No, that was the first time I have seen Wells run the ball like that.

Not of that east-west crap we are used to seeing. He was getting his pads low, and smashing people.

 

[Capital Card]

Interesting that most of his yards yesterday came from running behind Levi Brown.


Not suggesting he's a good LT, I'm just saying.

 

[WildBB]

Interesting that most of his yards yesterday came from running behind Levi Brown.


Not suggesting he's a good LT, I'm just saying.

He's an above avg. run blocking tackle. That's why the org. likes him. Dude only supposedly needs to block 3 secs. or less in passing situations with the way we run our west coast offense. That can be a stretch sometimes.

Also the holding call on a run play on him early in the game negating a good gain was total BS!

 

[seesred]

I know hind sight is 20/20 but, I said it at the game before the play and believe it now. The 4tjh and 2 Kolb try to throw a hard pass to Fitz. Game over. Beanie was running great all game long. Those 2 yards belonged to Wells. We would have won IMO.

GBR
40

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Luv Beanie... and always have.

PS: He slips more than some because he cuts off of his inside leg. Not something that will change as it's the quickest way for him to square to the line.

 

[Cheesebeef]

He was pretty solid his first two games, but yesterday was the Beanie we saw great flashes of his rookie year.

good thing he'll be gone when his contract runs out in two years.

 

[blindseyed]

He was pretty solid his first two games, but yesterday was the Beanie we saw great flashes of his rookie year.

good thing he'll be gone when his contract runs out in two years.

Yeah but we'll get Steve Slaton for alot less!

 

[Chopper0080]

I was also impressed by Wells. He made his running style work against a physical defense and played the entire game when he was obviously not 100% (see his leg wrap). Good step out game for Wells, and hopefully here comes our play action passing game.

 

[Capital Card]

I was also impressed by Wells. He made his running style work against a physical defense and played the entire game when he was obviously not 100% (see his leg wrap). Good step out game for Wells, and hopefully here comes our play action passing game.

x2

 

[Dayman]

Despite missing 25% of the season, Beanie ranks near the top of most rushing categories:

-Tied for 8th in yards.
-4th in ypc among RBs with at least 50 carries.
-1st in TDs

He also had more TDs yesterday than he did all last year.

This is what happens when you let Beanie play through his mistakes. It's kind of sad that it took the team going into desperation mode at RB to give him the chance, but I'm glad it finally happened. Beanie is a beast.

 

[187]

This is my Beanie Wells love/hate timeline:

-When we drafted him: hated the pick
-Rookie year: loved him
-Second year: my predraft thoughts on him started to appear in his play
-This year: loving him, running like he did as a rookie

I think the knee injury derailed most of his season last year and then the fact that no one respected whatever QB we had under center and stacked the box. The guy can play when he is healthy, hope he can stay in one piece this year.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

 

[Goldfield]

When Wells runs angry he is damn good. He does slip and fall way too much.

I would love to see Wells & Williams combo this year, too bad.

 

[Russ Smith]

he ran his butt off and it certainly wasn't his fault we lost.

 

[Russ Smith]

I think the knee injury derailed most of his season last year and then the fact that no one respected whatever QB we had under center and stacked the box. The guy can play when he is healthy, hope he can stay in one piece this year.

Completely agree with this I think it's amazing that we have a worse record when we're clearly a better team this year.

Wells is up almost 2 YPC this year, some of that is the knee but he wasn't healthy yesterday and still ran much better. I think last year teams just had absolutely no concern with our passing attack. Last year 2 games all year over 5 YPC and one of those was only 3 carries, this year he's done it in all 3 games he's played in.

If we can just get Kolb to settle down a bit and tighten up the defense we can start to win some of these close games.

 

[Stout]

He played like gangbusters. I had always been a fan of his, thinking he had what it takes to be a solid RB. The problem I've had is his fragility. Hopefully he'll hold up and keep playing like he did on Sunday. I am not convinced yet, by far, but we can hope.

 

[CFLredzoned]

Dude is always slipping, you'd think he'd have it figured out on his home turf by now. It seemed to get better finally later though, your right a/t.

He does have it figured out. You can see the way he hesitates before he cuts. He knows he's going to slip. And then sometimes he still slips, even after slowing down before the cut. It's very strange. I think it happens on every field though. Probably more at home. I did notice a few people slip Sunday. Are they constantly putting new grass on that field? I remember last year, the college national championship game. Mike Jurecki called it - he said they just put new grass out there. It's only going to have a week or two to take. So people will be slipping. Sure enough, people were slipping all over that game. There was nothing wrong with the old grass. It just wasn't perfect looking. So they changed it. A perfect looking field was more important than a perfect playing field.

 

[MadCardDisease]

He played like gangbusters. I had always been a fan of his, thinking he had what it takes to be a solid RB. The problem I've had is his fragility. Hopefully he'll hold up and keep playing like he did on Sunday. I am not convinced yet, by far, but we can hope.

Totally agree. If Beanie keeps running like this the Cards will have a very potent offense once Kolb gets comfortable. Now we just need him to stay healthy!

 

[Crazy Canuck]

He does have it figured out. You can see the way he hesitates before he cuts. He knows he's going to slip. And then sometimes he still slips, even after slowing down before the cut. It's very strange. I think it happens on every field though. Probably more at home. I did notice a few people slip Sunday. Are they constantly putting new grass on that field? I remember last year, the college national championship game. Mike Jurecki called it - he said they just put new grass out there. It's only going to have a week or two to take. So people will be slipping. Sure enough, people were slipping all over that game. There was nothing wrong with the old grass. It just wasn't perfect looking. So they changed it. A perfect looking field was more important than a perfect playing field.

He cuts off his inside leg. It's his way of quickly squaring to the line. Will probably lead to a few slips, but it's his style and comfort.

 

[az1965]

Loved his 39 yard run and at the end of the run his hard stiff arm elbow on Philips neck pushing him backwards.

 

[blindseyed]

Loved his 39 yard run and at the end of the run his hard stiff arm elbow on Philips neck pushing him backwards.

He does have a good stiff arm

 

[AzStevenCal]

He does have a good stiff arm

He has a great stiff arm. He's incredibly physical and if you try to tackle him from the waist up you're going to take a beating. Unfortunately, he topples pretty easily if you hit him low.

Steve