The article really goes out of its way to avoid some of the great things tannehills done. I don't think they mention the 24 tds last year once. Nor the near 4,000 yards. (Which put him in the top ten in yards last season) It even shows a clip of tannehill holding the ball too long against New England in week 14. A game that tannehill killed it with 300+yds a 3 tds. I guess I'm just bias but IMO tannehills long term future with us isn't that unclear.
For comparison Matt Ryan thre something like 26/17 last year. Noone really questions Ryan to much. Tannehill in his second season at the very least proved he can put up numbers similar to the second tier of franchise QBs. Its easy to simply look at his last two games and be a debbie downer but his body of work for the season was still very good for a second year QB.
Let's put it this way; if Philbin gets fired, do you see the next coaching staff keeping Tannehill? I don't, at least not based off his career so far. And that's all that needs to be said about a quarterback's progress.
I think Tannehill's numbers warrant serious contemplation by any new coach on whether we can continue to build a franchise around him or not. Doesn't mean they wouldn't draft a QB to compete with Tannehill, just a question whether they do it in the first round, which I doubt they would. But, watching the garbage we have at backup QB, even if Philbin is around next season, we should be drafting a QB in first few rounds anyway.
There would definitely be serious consideration. But ultimately there isn't enough to retain him. Maybe that changes this season.
If I were a coach coming in after this past season, I would definitely retain Tannehill. If Philbin were fired after this season there would another year of data there that we don't know.
What if the year of data was identical to lasts? Certainly an entertaining question of how much Tannehill would be worth today on the open market. Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk
Under this system, with this play-calling potential, if the O line and running game were improved, and he had the same numbers, no way in hell they'd keep him.
In that case, I'm assuming that the team was horrible enough in some other way to get Philbin fired. If it were something on the field and Tannehill still put up those numbers then I wouldn't ding him much. As for the market, IMO Tannehill is more valuable than Dalton. I certainly wouldn't trade Tannehill for Dalton straight up. I'm sure there are some that will differ, but I think that'll mostly be those that have trouble looking at much past the team's W/L record.
From looking at Ryan's reps it looks as though his base is wider when delivering, maybe that's the tweak Lazor was talking about, anyone see anything else?
