I better be careful...this is how I got a 24 hour ban last year during the playoffs, when Russell was sucking for 9/10ths of that playoff game. LOL
I'm sorry, but this double-talk about how our fearless Tannehill deserves praise is reaching insanity levels. Did we even watch the same game? When the game is tied in the 4th and your defense forces five straight 3-and-outs, an average NFL quarterback will go home with a mark in the win column. But in between those drives, you see Tannehill calmly pacing the sideline like he has all year to finally put together a drive, and then there's Matt Moore with the same look that he's had since getting benched for the Tannehill experiment. And it makes no sense to keep benching a true team leader for inaccurate passes and two yard check downs to keep looking good statistically while getting slaughtered by inferior competition. Tannehill is a great athlete with a lot of positives in his favor, but he's still leaving far too much on the field for us to ever surpass the mediocre level. This is two weeks in a row that we've been beaten by two of the worst teams in the NFL, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that a lethargic offense is the core of the problem.
Ah, Tannehill isn't angry enough. Gotcha. So, in addition to his magic bag, Tannehill needs an "angry face" mask, so he looks more like he should.
Only if you're going to handpick isolated incidences instead of overall body of work. Man this site is hella trollish tonight. Hadn't been on here all night and I find this crap across multiple threads. I picture some of you guys patrolling and foaming at the mouth looking to bicker.
I was told 12 hours ago to watch a Colts game to see a QB lift his team to a victory. It's poetic. Anyhow, are you saying you buy into the narrative?
Actually, I'm just gonna buy into your narrative and define QB's by isolated games rather than the whole body of work.
ESPN reminded me all night long that Golden Boy Luck is a TURNOVER MACHINE. The definition of "body of work".
Ummm before the start of this season his TD-to-INT ratio was nearly 2:1 at 88TD's to 45 INT's. I will say this though - the Colts need to stop falling prey to making him a high volume passer ....... which is about the only thing he shares similar with Tanny.
dont know what you been watching but its not dolphins football. we havent lost to the two worst teams in football. we are 1-1. maybe you been watching the colts and confused them with the dolphins. Luck is stinking up the bed out there in Indy due to his own version of poor oline play. Guess he's leaving too much on the field too. You do realize that once the 4th qtr came around the Jags abandoned defensing the run because they knew we were going to pass. They flooded the passing lanes. Who was open genius? who was Tannehill supposed to connect with in the 4th? The absurdity of the criticism of your side is laughable. Somewhere there is an Indy version of you calling for the Colts to trade or cut lUCK
Ummm, why do you say "before this season"? Bending the stats much? And why subtract fumbles? So disingenuous.
here is a fun one for you, if you put peyton manning on our team, we are 0-2 right now..... if peyton manning even makes it through the first 2 weeks without season ending injury....
Sounds like you are saying Tannehill should have ran a few times then. He did not need THAT much yardage. Just FG range. Tannefailed!
How many timeouts did we have? One, zero? The lbs were ten yards deep. How was tanny gonna run ten times in the time we had left? Your analysis fails
40 yards in 40 seconds with no TOs ..lol..you wanted anyone to run the ball..much less. Tannehill. Really? Hiw much time you think ticks off the clock on a typical run?
Dude, I was being facetious. Hence the Tannefailed (I don't write/talk like that). My aren't we prickly today. I will say that you are full of chit though. Your original post said, when the 4th quarter came around. Now you're talking about JUST the last drive. That's just dishonest. You just fail. You are saying, we had no TIMEOUTS the WHOLE 4th Quarter??????? Philbifailed! So you gonna change that now?
Nice try counselor. You said all we needed was a FG. At the start of the 4th you don't know if we need a FG or 17 points to win the game. You play your normal offense until the coach says otherwise. Personally I wanted to test parkers leaping ability and have tannehill chuck one deep on a rollout even if he was covered and see if parker could outfight the db for the ball. Guess lazor didn't feel the same. Lazoefail
Masterful? I'd say efficient maybe. We only put up two offensive TD's in that game and when it was on the line in the 4th quarter - the offense and Tannehill "turtled". JAX played bend, but don't break with the kid and it worked. They gave up the dink and dunk inbetween the 20's and then kept us in check where it matters most - RedZone and end of game.
with our Oline at least in the first 2 games, the only QBs that could do better than Thill is, Rodgers, Big ben, and teblow.
It's funny you posted this, I was just talking about what tier I think Tannehill was in. The first 2 years I'd say he was average QB, moving toward above average. Now I think he is either at the bottom of tier 2, or on top of tier 3. Maybe between them both. I still would rather have Romo, or Ben, but he is getting really close. We have to remember that he is still young, and hasn't gotten to his prime yet. Each, and every year he has improved and I expect it to keep following that trend.
Round and round we go: Every QB struggles with no o-line!! Our o-line was worse than horrible Sunday!! Tannehill was brilliant Sunday!!
So as of now Tanny has I believe 57 career starts, college and pro. That's not too many more than guys like Luck and others come out of college with. Things like his pocket presence, which I think is somewhat improved, really require game time reps particularly w/ the kid gloves that qb's are treated w/ in camp. I believe he is more accurate than he has been and his deep ball has been pretty strong this year. Not all of his many sacks are his fault, but he has had to overcome sub par O line play. That and as Herman Edwards likes to say, Tanny has the most important ability which is availability.
No one is saying that QBs can't have a good, or even great, game behind a terrible oline. What we are saying is that those games won't be the norm. And that's exactly what we see, from any QB with a bad oline. Especially young QBs. Not to mention, playing behind a **** oline for three straight seasons, you tend to find ways of making it work. Tannehill made it work for 3 quarters on Sunday. I wouldn't say he was "brilliant," but he, Landry, and Matthews were very good.
We are in hindsight. We were tied to the end. With the info we have, a FG changes everything. Jags were not scoring on us at will. But you ignored my question, so that means I win? You were wrong. You initially said all of the 4th Quarter, but moved the goal posts to the last drive Do I get a cookie? I'd like a cookie. Moving on, did we play our normal offense? I guess zero runs, or close to it, is really our normal offense. But I'd not pin that on Lazor. The lack of run attempts, save for one game last year, has been systemic with Philbin since Sherman. Lazor is perhaps complicit, but the directive comes from the top. The first year we were sort of balanced, but our #1 was Hartline. Since then, they've not cared about run/pass balance.