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Ex-BYU Cougar Beck sets sights on success with Dolphins

What Beck needs is Jonny Harline to join him in Miami! GO COUGS! BCS or bust in 2008!!!

Most BYU fans would love to see Beck succeed but one has to believe if he doesn't produce this season he will be riding the beach as a backup the rest of his NFL career. This Cougar fan wishes that Beck was in a situation like Alex Smith in SF with Mike Martz. Beck is so much better than Smith in so many ways. He just wasn't drafted in the right season and is with the wrong team. Maybe the big tuna will have faith in him and let us all see how great this kid can be.

You are right on the money, I can't believe these NFL scouts aren't smart enough to figure out that the more BYU players you have on a team, the better your team is. They should get every cougar available. Now that's a recipe for success. Then they could win the national championship in 1984 too. The fact that Alex Smith is 10 times the athlete John Beck will ever be, probably had nothing to do with him going #1.

If John doesn't get the chance to shine at Miami and they end up shipping him out, I am pretty confident he will succeed wherever he ends up. He's obviously a very hard working guy and determined to succeed, and I believe he will.

Why is Alex Smith's name appearing in a comment about John Beck? There was a reason Smith was drafted number one and Beck went in the second round.

You arn't going to a BCS game again this season. Even if you win every game (you won't). You in the wrong conference they don't have to invite you and you don't bring in enough money if they do invite you.

as evidenced by his crying in the locker room. He was no good last year and I'd be surprised if he even gets a chance to prove himself this year. He will never amount to anything in the NFL.

Thank you for your sage words and for setting the record straight that BYU wouldn't get a BCS invite after HAWAII got one last year with their cupcake schedule and off-mainland fanbase. Fantastic critical thinking.

Are you kidding me? Alex Smith is awful. Huge letdown as a #1 pick. On Beck the jury is still out, but don't go telling me that Alex Smith is a good NFL player and worht the #1 pick. haha. Next you're going to tell me that Andrew Bogut deserved to be the #1 pick!!

To Sorry BYU Fans: if we win every game we will be in the BCS, and we have a lot more fans, especially fans who travel, than most of the BCS schools.

I've been a Dolphin fan since 1968 through all of their ups and downs. Now that they like seven LDS players on their team, and since Utah doesn't have our own pro football team, we should adopt the Dolphins as Utah's proxy team. A win by Miami is a win for Utah! Go Dolphins and John Beck!

Alex Smith is not that great of an athlete. He was simply in the right place at the right time and was #1 because Matt Leinart ended up staying at USC for another year. Had Leinart come out Smith would have dropped like a rock in the draft. He has been horrible at SF and and when he is benched this year will never start in the NFL again - bet on it. John will struggle early like he did at the Y and will be the better player between the two long term. Speaking of QB's in the NFL - how many has the Y had and can you name another one other than Smith?

I would like to see both (Smith and Beck) do well this year. But regardless, the 49ers should be the better team.

You make no sense at all. First of all, BYU has never gone to a BCS game, so how can they go to a BCS game "again" this season. Secondly, if BYU does win every game they will go to a BCS game. Thirdly, BYU does bring in a lot of money because their fans travel so well and many bowls would love to have BYU and its loyal fans attend.

GO COUGS!

He will have a Hall of Fame career. Mark my words.

Name one way in which Beck is better than Smith.
3 fumbles over the course of 5 plays is NOT a good thing so don't try and spin that as a possitive.

Beck is the real deal and will prove it this season with the fish. He is the best QB to come out of Utah in the past 10 yrs. Now before you Utah fans pounce on me about Smith hear me out; Smith was in an offense that inflated his numbers while John was a consistant producer and played for a better pro like offense than the 2004 Utah team. Alex Smith is a nice guy if the misled youth need to have someone to go bowling with but Beck is better and within two years Smith will be out of the NFL.

Alex Smith shouldn't even be mentioned here. But Beck and Smith haven't had a fair shot really. They both have horrible offensive lines to work with. To judge Smith and Beck isn't proper. They are doing what they can under very trying circumstances. Some people have to make everything a BYU, U of U thing which is plain stupid. It is hard to believe the naitivity of some of these posts. Wake up folks.

That had to be rough, driving around and seeing all those I-15 signs!

There was Scott Mitchell, who started out with the Miami Dolphins and played several years with the Detroit Lions. He was probably better than Alex Smith.

Doing grad school in Miami I watched Beck up close last year. I wanted Beck to do well, to reflect well on the MWC because down here in SEC/ACC territory, there is no respect at all!! But Beck was awful, 8 turnovers and 1 touchdown pass. True there was no line, no real recievers, but there were alot of teams with no line and no recievers that won more than one game. The issue with Beck began on draft day when the Dolphins passed on Brady Quinn in the first round, and got Beck in the second. The public thinks that Quinn is so much better than Beck.(I don't) But with Beck's turnovers, and not leading the team to a single victory, the local meadia killed him. (and the rest of team) It won't be easier this year, even with Jake Long, the O-line isn't anything special, and with out a decent reciver, look for a lot of Ronnie Brown and Ricky williams.
There is hope though, if Beck can win the starting job, win 4-6 games, then he can be the next Marino. Most situations in the NFL aren't fair, and nobody cares. Beck must make this happen.