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 Predicting Mike LaFleur's QB Pre-Season QB Rotations By Walter Mitchell The way Mike LaFleur has been playing his QBs thus far in training camp feels like a plan he has had fro some time about how and when to play his QBs in the Cardinals' 4 pre-season games. Here's a game-by-game prediction: Game 1: Cardinals vs Panthers in the Hallof Fame Game in Canton, Ohio, August 6, 8 PM ET Q1: Gardner Minshew Q.2 Carson Beck Q3 Carson Beck  Q4 Kedon Slovis Game 2: Cardinals vs. Raiders, August 13, at Las Vegas, 8 PM ET Q1: Gardner Minshew Q2: Carson Beck Q3: Carson Beck Q4: Kedon Slovis Game 3: Cardinals vs, Cowboys, August 22, at Glendale, Arizona, 11 PH ET Q1: Jacoby Brissett Q2: Jacoby Brissett Q3: Carson Beck Q4: Carson Beck Game 4: Cardinals vs. Packers, August 28, at Green Bay, 8 PM ET Q1: Gardner Minshew Q2: Carson Beck Q3: Carson Beck Q4: Kedon Slovis It works out well that the game 3 "rehearsal game" is the Cardinals' lone pre-season home game.  Right now, Mik...
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Mike LaFleur and Veteran QBs

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                                                         photo credit: FOX Sports By Walter Mitchell If the Cardinals' plan was to hire Rams' OC Mike LaFleur to start and develop either 2026 3rd round draft pick Carson Beck or one of the prize QBs in the 2027 NFL Draft, then it's more than likely that they hired the wrong guy.  In his 12 years as an NFL coach, Mike LaFleur has yet to be a successful part of developing a young QB. Neither the 49ers' 2017 3rd round pick (#104), C.J. Beathard, nor the Jets' 2021 1sr round pick (#2), Zach Wilson thrived in a Mike Shanahan style of offense. In games that MLF coached as a key offensive assistant, Beathard was 2-10 and Wilson was 8-14. That's 10-24 combined. When LaFleur became the Rams' OC, Sean McVay had previously lost faith in developing Jared Goff and thus made the big trade to acquire Matth...
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Brissett and Wilson were rarely given easy completions, yet they balled big-time, here's proof

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                                                                                   photo credit: FOX Sports By Walter Mitchell Fans keep insisting that Jacoby Brissett only accomplished his impressive 2025 production numbers because teams were playing soft prevent-style defenses that led to easy stat-padding completions.  Here's a rebuttal to a similar claim that I tweeted today: Walter B J Mitchell @WBJMItch If you go back and watch the games --- I promise you will be hard pressed to find any semblances of prevent defenses. Michael Wilson was dogged in man coverage game after game. As was Marv, when available. As was Trey, except they couldn't cover him with safeties and linebackers as much as they tried. If the prevent defense claims are true, why then was Jacoby's most pro...
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