Barry Jackson asks Steve Ross about free agent receivers...

His last draft. Billy Milner and Andrew Greene. At least we were later able to trade Milner for a damn good TE in Troy Drayton. The Milner pick at the time though incensed me like few others.

 

Personally, I'm not aware of any accuracy problems that Ryan has, and the numbers bear this out. Ryan's biggest problem is that has too many plays where he may need to get 12 yards to convert and he will throw the route at 8 yards instead

The numbers show that Ryan is more accurate than Andrew Luck, that is both on all passes and on deep passes (20+ yards). Of 33 quarterbacks rated, the only quarterbacks that threw fewer 20+ yard touchdown passes than Ryan were Blaine Gabbert, Chad Henne, and Christian Ponder. Of those 33 quarterbacks, Ryan had the 9th highest accuracy percentage on 20+ yard throws. His accuracy percentage is the same as Matt Ryan's, Andrew Luck's, Matt Schaub's, and Eli Manning's accuracy percentage. The difference is, those guys have receivers that can run away from the defense when they catch these throws. In Miami, while Brian Hartline is underrated and can get open deep, he can't run away from the defense. The Dolphins have to acquire this explosive ability in the passing game.

The other thing Ryan is really good at is play action. Ryan's passer rating on play action attempts is 121.2, which is second in the NFL to Matt Ryan's 121.5. Ryan also had the 3rd fewest attempts in play action. That's a combo of things. One, the offense is not really a play action driven offense. Two, the Dolphins did not run the ball consistently at all.

The biggest thing that Ryan needs to improve upon is his situation awareness.

 

You dont understand KB… the narrative is that he is not accurate. What he is actually doing in the games is not really all that important.

 

Steve Young

 

"has to get more accurate" .... "too many balls sail"

Meanwhile, at the superbowl, resides Joe "wtf was that?" Flacco.

JOE.

FLACCO.

supreme secondary & overall defense, power house running game, and amazing hands in WRs like Boldin.

But supporting cast means nothing to a QB. Whether they are playing with 14 year olds, or Megatron, they must be supreme. ALWAYS. or they are a bust that will never improve! SUCH IS LAAAWWWW.

lolololo. (not a shot at you pads, js)

 

It took a hall of fame WR, hall of fame TE, the best RB in football and a top 10 defense before John Elway ever won a Super Bowl.

 

What difference does it make. The point is if you improved the talent around the QB his productivity is likely to improve. The salary cap is completely irrelivant to that point.

 

Agreed. Similarly, Terry Bradshaw didn't start to become great until he had Swann, Stallworth and Franco Harris around him. Jim Plunkett's another guy that might have been great if he had the talent around him in NE that he finally had in Oakland.

 

Man, when going thru the other threads about Tanny, I thought the other posters were a little hard on Shou, but they were right...he can't wait to get his licks in on Tanny in just about every thread...the whole teams' demise is apparently due to Tanny in his eyes...

 

That was an awful run for draft years. Still painful.

 

Honestly, very few picks from the mid 70's to the mid 90's were good to great but most of our draft selections really sucked. We historically have been terrible at drafting. Shula's drafting was terrible, Jimmy Johnson came in and we drafted excellent on defense and poorly on offense. The sad, sad truth is as safe and how mediocre he has drafted, Jeff Ireland may....may be the best GM we ever had! I am middle of the road on him as GM I see why people hate his job performance and they make logical and astute points, but then the Ireland supporters make strong claims as to why he has done better since being away from the bully Parcells.

I don't understand how teams can rebuild and restock in a year to just a couple years and then there's us, we have been doing it since 2003! Back when we went 10-6 and missed the playoffs! We have been awful for far too long, the fact that there are Dolphin fans left speaks volumes on fan loyalty and fandom! You all got it! You guys are Dolphins fans and you stand by your team and devote countless hours to your/our team! You guys are like me you're addicted to the Fins! One day she's (our Dolphins) got to reward our devotion, it just sucks that the incompetence keeps ****ing us over.

What I do see from Ireland is that we are a much better, younger and talented team than we were in 2007. Unfortunately back then we had almost zero draft picks from 2000-2007 on our team, and its only now starting to build our team. Changing coaches and styles (3-4 to 4-3; power run to WCO) affect the depth and type of players needed for each team. So guys drafted just a few years ago no longer fit the mold, that hurts the team, and just makes it a lil bit harder to restock. I do believe though that the team is not that far away from being a playoff team, but we want to be a contender. How long has it been since we have won 2 playoff games? The mantra for this off season is we have money, draft picks and we need play-maker's.....and the good thing is the team and the front realizes it and recognizes it.....FINALLY....so this is their "crap or get off the pot" off season! It should be fun, lets hold out hope for a bright off season rather than dwell on poor off season (2012)!

 

We haven't been able to restock correctly because we haven't had the proper power structure. We have given coaches too much power. Few coaches draft and acquire talent well. The Parcells experiment was a train wreck. We had a dinosaur dictating what groceries were needed for a 1980's style football philosophy.

We didn't get to the playoffs this year, because Philbin's blueprint is so different than Parcells there were simply not enough moves that could be made. This coming year we should be playoff bound or Ireland should be fired. The coach and QB are finally here.

 

I don' believe he's saying that, just that his personal game has to improve.