Nov, 2015
Matt Millen casually strolled through the press box at halftime Saturday. The subject quickly turned to quarterback C.J. Beathard.
"He reminds me of Montana," said the Big Ten Network analyst and former NFLgeneral manager.
http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/no-matter-what-you-believe-about-iowa-pay-attention-to-the-hawkeyes/
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May 13, 2017 at 3:42 PM
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May 13, 2017 at 3:58 PM
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Originally posted by slowriot:Nov, 2015
Matt Millen casually strolled through the press box at halftime Saturday. The subject quickly turned to quarterback C.J. Beathard.
"He reminds me of Montana," said the Big Ten Network analyst and former NFLgeneral manager.
http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/no-matter-what-you-believe-about-iowa-pay-attention-to-the-hawkeyes/
Hmm a Matt millen endorsement. That may be the kiss of death.
May 13, 2017 at 5:21 PM
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Originally posted by slowriot:Nov, 2015
Matt Millen casually strolled through the press box at halftime Saturday. The subject quickly turned to quarterback C.J. Beathard.
"He reminds me of Montana," said the Big Ten Network analyst and former NFLgeneral manager.
http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/no-matter-what-you-believe-about-iowa-pay-attention-to-the-hawkeyes/
s**t...
May 13, 2017 at 6:00 PM
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Originally posted by DonnieDarko:
Originally posted by slowriot:
Nov, 2015
Matt Millen casually strolled through the press box at halftime Saturday. The subject quickly turned to quarterback C.J. Beathard.
"He reminds me of Montana," said the Big Ten Network analyst and former NFLgeneral manager.
http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/no-matter-what-you-believe-about-iowa-pay-attention-to-the-hawkeyes/
s**t...
Kiss of death. That's too bad...
May 13, 2017 at 6:23 PM
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This is awesome!
When C.J. arrived at Iowa, Ferentz found a quarterback with a strong arm and ironclad determination, but one who weighed only 170 pounds. Beathard redshirted the 2012 season and then lost a quarterback competition to Jake Rudock in 2013.
Beathard was behind Rudock when the 2014 season began, but not when it ended.
"We didn't play quite as well down the stretch as we had hoped," Ferentz said. "So what we decided to do in the bowl game that year is let both guys play. No knock on Jake, but C.J. – you could just see C.J. gaining ground almost every week."
Shortly after the bowl game, Ferentz and his coaches decided Beathard, not Rudock, would start in 2015.
Rudock transferred to Michigan where he would play for Jim Harbaugh; Beathard was voted an Iowa team captain before the season.
That seemed premature considering Beathard never had spent any meaningful time as starter. But the honor fit perfectly when he led Iowa – despite his injuries – to its best regular season in 93 years (12-0).
"He's a guy who wouldn't come off the field unless they dragged him off the field," said tight end George Kittle, whom the 49ers drafted in the fifth round and who was Beathard's house mate at Iowa.
"If you saw the highlight against Indiana – he jumped over, like, six guys and I'm pretty sure he had a sports hernia at the time," Kittle said. "He doesn't care about his body. He wants to win and do well for his team. He'll do anything."
Said Ferentz: "He made history. We've had two (teams) go undefeated at Iowa, two undefeated teams in the history of the program, and one was 1922 and then again in 2015. So that tells you a lot."
Under the radar
When Beathard's statistics drooped in 2016, his draft hype did, too. Asked about those middling numbers – including a 58.6 completion percentage and minus-24 rushing yards – Ferentz said that Shanahan "nailed it" when the 49ers coach noted on draft day that Iowa simply wasn't as talented in 2016 as it had been the year before.
Two of Beathard's top targets from 2015 moved on to the NFL last season. Another, receiver Matt VandeBerg, broke his foot in September and was lost for the year. Even Kittle was slowed by his own foot injury in the second half of the season.
"I thought the experts missed it totally," Ferentz said. "… My sense was that by the time of the draft there were a handful of teams that had figured it out. And San Fran was in that group."
http://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/article150386827.html
Thank God we got Shanahan!
When C.J. arrived at Iowa, Ferentz found a quarterback with a strong arm and ironclad determination, but one who weighed only 170 pounds. Beathard redshirted the 2012 season and then lost a quarterback competition to Jake Rudock in 2013.
Beathard was behind Rudock when the 2014 season began, but not when it ended.
"We didn't play quite as well down the stretch as we had hoped," Ferentz said. "So what we decided to do in the bowl game that year is let both guys play. No knock on Jake, but C.J. – you could just see C.J. gaining ground almost every week."
Shortly after the bowl game, Ferentz and his coaches decided Beathard, not Rudock, would start in 2015.
Rudock transferred to Michigan where he would play for Jim Harbaugh; Beathard was voted an Iowa team captain before the season.
That seemed premature considering Beathard never had spent any meaningful time as starter. But the honor fit perfectly when he led Iowa – despite his injuries – to its best regular season in 93 years (12-0).
"He's a guy who wouldn't come off the field unless they dragged him off the field," said tight end George Kittle, whom the 49ers drafted in the fifth round and who was Beathard's house mate at Iowa.
"If you saw the highlight against Indiana – he jumped over, like, six guys and I'm pretty sure he had a sports hernia at the time," Kittle said. "He doesn't care about his body. He wants to win and do well for his team. He'll do anything."
Said Ferentz: "He made history. We've had two (teams) go undefeated at Iowa, two undefeated teams in the history of the program, and one was 1922 and then again in 2015. So that tells you a lot."
Under the radar
When Beathard's statistics drooped in 2016, his draft hype did, too. Asked about those middling numbers – including a 58.6 completion percentage and minus-24 rushing yards – Ferentz said that Shanahan "nailed it" when the 49ers coach noted on draft day that Iowa simply wasn't as talented in 2016 as it had been the year before.
Two of Beathard's top targets from 2015 moved on to the NFL last season. Another, receiver Matt VandeBerg, broke his foot in September and was lost for the year. Even Kittle was slowed by his own foot injury in the second half of the season.
"I thought the experts missed it totally," Ferentz said. "… My sense was that by the time of the draft there were a handful of teams that had figured it out. And San Fran was in that group."
http://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/article150386827.html
Thank God we got Shanahan!
May 13, 2017 at 7:57 PM
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Beathard was wrong. He later learned the blow he received just before scoring tore an adductor muscle, one of the bands that go from the hip to the upper thigh. The adductors help control side-to-side locomotion, and when one of them is compromised it makes shuffling in the pocket, rolling out, accelerating and stopping – movements critical to quarterbacking – painful and more difficult.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/article150386827.html#storylink=cpy
Might explain some of the beat hard he got in 2015.
May 13, 2017 at 8:23 PM
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The more I read about him, the better I feel about Beathard. I still think the Niners could have gotten him MUCH later. That said, let's see what Shanny can do with this kids tools and traits. Good luck, CJ! We're rooting for you.
May 13, 2017 at 8:29 PM
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I've been a madman on watching this guys film. He never calls it quits. 
May 13, 2017 at 8:52 PM
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Watch the 2015 Stanford game. They absolutely demolished him, but he never wavered. The guy is tough as nails.
Official member of the CJ fan club.
Official member of the CJ fan club.
May 13, 2017 at 8:57 PM
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Originally posted by m_brockalexander:
The more I read about him, the better I feel about Beathard. I still think the Niners could have gotten him MUCH later. That said, let's see what Shanny can do with this kids tools and traits. Good luck, CJ! We're rooting for you.
I can't recall the article title or link but the substance of that article said that Seattle was looking at CJ too. That's why they jumped up to get him. Seattle drafted at 106 and CJ went to the 49ers at 104. <shrug> I don't know how reliable my memory or that article was.
May 13, 2017 at 10:28 PM
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Originally posted by Passerby49:
I've been a madman on watching this guys film. He never calls it quits.
And how does one judge that? What about when he went 7-23 for 55 yards with 3 INTs in the 2017 Outback bowl?
May 13, 2017 at 10:32 PM
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Originally posted by Jcool:Good to see at one point he was 7-22 for 55 yards and didn't call it quits.
Originally posted by Passerby49:
I've been a madman on watching this guys film. He never calls it quits.
And how does one judge that? What about when he went 7-23 for 55 yards with 3 INTs in the 2017 Outback bowl?
May 14, 2017 at 6:13 AM
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Originally posted by OG-9er:Good to see at one point he was 7-22 for 55 yards and didn't call it quits.Originally posted by Jcool:Originally posted by Passerby49:I've been a madman on watching this guys film. He never calls it quits.
And how does one judge that? What about when he went 7-23 for 55 yards with 3 INTs in the 2017 Outback bowl?
Wasn't he injured in that game? Hernia and torn adjutator muscle, or something like that. I recall him saying in a TV interview that it was his last college game and so he was not going to take himself out. (Or something to that effect)
May 14, 2017 at 8:34 AM
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May 14, 2017 at 8:50 AM
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Originally posted by Giedi:Originally posted by m_brockalexander:The more I read about him, the better I feel about Beathard. I still think the Niners could have gotten him MUCH later. That said, let's see what Shanny can do with this kids tools and traits. Good luck, CJ! We're rooting for you.
I can't recall the article title or link but the substance of that article said that Seattle was looking at CJ too. That's why they jumped up to get him. Seattle drafted at 106 and CJ went to the 49ers at 104. I don't know how reliable my memory or that article was.
Read too, that several teams were targeting him in the 3rd and 4th rounds so they moved up to secure him.