You'll can argue till you're blue in the face, but am a simple man. If we get Beck, we were successful in our portal QB search.
After we missed on Mateer and passed on Mendoza, measure of success IMO became: Is the QB we got better than Mendoza? Beck, for all his faults, is better than Mendoza. Am sure a few special people here will argue otherwise, but I shall not be persuaded.
We went after the best QB in the portal and missed. We chose not to pursue Mendoza with any vigor. If we get Beck, we got a QB who's better than Mendoza.
Beck is risky with the injury and his performance this year, but I think you 100% take him with those risks over anyone else we conceivably could have gotten who entered the portal (Mendoza/Mensah/Wegman's/etc).
Would be nice to get another portal WR in this period, but failing that I think we'll be an attractive spot for WRs in the Spring portal.