{"id":666621,"date":"2026-05-13T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/666621\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:10:09","slug":"arizona-cardinals-carson-beck-has-leg-up-on-most-rookie-qbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/666621\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals Carson Beck has leg up on most rookie QBs"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEMPE, Ariz. — So much has been made about Arizona Cardinals<\/a> rookie quarterback Carson Beck<\/a>\u2019s experience coming into the NFL draft last month.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been well documented: He\u2019s 24, played six seasons of college ball and started 43 games at two schools.<\/p>\n

But how can that experience translate to the field? It already started to show itself during Beck\u2019s first days on an NFL field during rookie minicamp. He came into the NFL with the benefit of playing in NFL-style systems at Georgia and Miami, which quickly translated to the actual NFL in one particular area: the cadence.<\/p>\n

For new Cardinals coach Mike LaFleur, the cadence and snap have been among his priorities since the veterans arrived in Arizona\u2019s facility the first week of April. LaFleur spent an entire week on the pre-snap orientation. Beyond working on the huddle, which was the first step for LaFleur, the next priority was the snap count, cadence included.<\/p>\n

In Beck, LaFleur has a rookie quarterback who\u2019s unique. Beck has already used a verbal cadence, requesting the snap verbally during the first half of last season at Miami. His Miami cadence wasn\u2019t as \u201cdrawn out\u201d as NFL cadences are, but it got him used to it, whereas most other rookie quarterbacks either receive the snap on a clap or on a silent count.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s learning the cadence, he\u2019s understanding how important the cadence is, but he\u2019s going to have to go out there and do it when we get everyone there,\u201d LaFleur said.<\/p>\n

Beck\u2019s understanding of just how important the cadence is could help him when he sees the field this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can try to trick a defense or just kind of keeps them off balance,\u201d Beck said. \u201cYou can use cadence as a weapon. So, obviously that\u2019s something that I\u2019m going to have to practice as I head into this, but I think it\u2019ll be good.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can use that as a weapon if you can get good at it. So, I\u2019m excited to kind of dive into that a little bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n

LaFleur said the cadence can be \u201ca massive weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n

If a defense can pick up on a quarterback\u2019s cadence, LaFleur said it turns into a disadvantage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the advantage we have on offense is we know when it\u2019s going to be snapped, but we have to be able to use that as a weapon,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cWe have to be able to change it up and do all the things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having used a verbal cadence was just one aspect of Beck\u2019s game that he has more experience in than other rookies. And that will speed up his learning curve, LaFleur said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like he hasn\u2019t had attached tight ends,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like he hasn\u2019t been in 12 personnel. It\u2019s not like he hasn\u2019t been under center and done a play-action fake or, shoot, even take a snap from under center like a lot of guys haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, it\u2019s just I would say the comfortability of playing under center, playing in the gun, playing with different formations, motions and stuff like that. It\u2019s not the end all, be all by any means, but definitely if there was a tie, you\u2019d say, \u2018Yeah, I want the guy that\u2019s actually done some of that over the guy that hasn\u2019t.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

While he has the experience of calling a cadence and taking snaps under center, what Beck doesn\u2019t have is the pressure of being a first-round pick. And the Cardinals don\u2019t have the pressure of playing the third-rounder as if he were a first-round pick.<\/p>\n

LaFleur won\u2019t shy away from admitting that pressure actually exists, but he wants to bring Beck along at a pace in which he can develop. And LaFleur wants the urgency that his coaching staff will show in coaching Beck to be matched by Beck.<\/p>\n

Wherever he is, whether that\u2019s on the field or on the bench.<\/p>\n

Beck understands that every day will be a \u201clearning experience,\u201d even if he ends up playing as a rookie.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are consistently and constantly learning, just through game experience, through practice experience, meetings,\u201d Beck said. \u201cI mean, just talking to guys around the facility, just trying to get all the little breadcrumbs that I can from each and every person. But, again, everybody wants to play football, especially at the position of quarterback.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to be the guy out there. It\u2019s such an interesting position and why I think it\u2019s the best position on Earth is that there\u2019s only one guy out there. It\u2019s not like wide receiver. If you\u2019re in 11 personnel, you got three guys out there. D-line, you\u2019re a four-down team, you got four guys out there. At quarterback, there\u2019s one guy out there doing it. So, I mean, obviously I would love to play and perform, but again, we\u2019ll see where that takes me and really just showing up and going to go to work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE, Ariz. — So much has been made about Arizona Cardinals rookie quarterback Carson Beck\u2019s experience coming into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[100980,49,48,245882,514,82],"class_list":["post-666621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arizona-cardinals-sports-football-team-team-statscom-355","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carson-beck-sports-football-player-player-statscom-1213340","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}