After 6 carries?

Mmmm…no!

No doubt about it – Beanie looked special vs. GB, but his ankle is still tender, he’s still a bit off on his timing and stretch points and the coaches will have to feel comfortable with him in blitz pro.

Also – just as we did last year – I think Wiz will utilize both THT and Beanie to maximize their effectiveness in different down, distance and matchup situations (i.e. “whomever gives us the best chance of succeeding…”)

Quite possibly, we may see as much or more Beanie than we do THT by the 2nd half of the regular season, but for this to happen, Beanie will have to earn it.

Beanie will fall down in a heap if you run him out there too much. The guy is just too injury-prone. Still regret the pick.

but I wonder why Whiz won’t come out and say as much. Maybe he’s just sticking to the ‘competition’ mantra that he loves but you’d think that Timmy’s work over the past month while Beanie was sidelined would be reason enough to say that TH was his guy for now.

TH has looked very good this preseason, not to say Beanie hasn’t but he’s only been involved in a few practices and only 1 preseason game. I still see Beanie getting a good share of the touches but I see Hightower playing most of the downs.

that Beanie will probably be a vulture back, like Hightower was last year.

I love what Tim Hightower has been doing during the offseason, working hard, getting faster; it shows he has a great heart and the desire to be great… but he doesn´t have the physical tools to compete with Beanie, who just showed that he has more power, better speed, explosiveness, he even picked up the blitz nicely (he looks like a fullback so he has to be strong when blocking)… I know it´s only one game, but I am excited about what he can do in this offense, he looks explosive, the speed is great, the stiff arm, just look at the move he put on the Packers safety in the touchdown run, and then in his second touchdown he looked great, followed his blockers and got in nicely, I noticed that he always fell forward and looks very strong, ideal for the short yardage situations… hope he has a great game in Denver and makes this a difficult decision for coach Whisenhunt.

If it aint broke, don’t fix it. Hightower’s YPC is 5.0, he is running hard and performing just fine. Wells does look really good, there is no denying that, but unless Hightower reverts to dancing too much behind the line of scrimmage, there is no need to give Wells the starting job. I agree, Whiz brings along youngsters slowly, and you’d have to think Tim will provide better blocking for the time being, with a year on the system already. I say by mid season they are splitting touches right about 50/50.

I thought you should have kept Edge