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Yet when Tannehill throws the ball in more than 2.5 seconds (rather than in 2.5 seconds or less), his QB rating goes from 101.8 to 75.5. Five of...

Michael Bennett, DT, Ohio State.

High sevens isn't the cutoff for playoff contention (a 10-6 or better record) on average. 7.2 is that cutoff. Here is a list of QBs since 2004...

Expounding a bit more, YPAs between 7.6 and 7.9 are associated with a median win percentage of 68.8% (an 11-win season) since 2004, covering 73...

Expounding on this a bit, YPAs between 7.2 and 7.5 are associated with a median win percentage of 62.5% (a 10-win season) since 2004, covering 21...

Keep in mind, though, that among the NFL QBs with 350 attempts or more this year, there are 15 who have a YPA above 7.2, and four of them have a...

The problem with that thinking is that there is no objective evidence that when those parts of the team play better, so does Tannehill. He isn't...

How do we know he hasn't reached his peak? I'm not saying he has; I'm simply asking how we could possibly know either way. As far as his...

While I don't consider myself a "Tannehill basher," I have to say that if one game can destroy a negative perception of Tannehill, then by...

The problem with viewing Tannehill as "not the problem" is that it imbues the person with that perspective with the ability to know the relative...

I don't think he has a command of the position, and I think it shows in how well he knows when to make those throws, how well he's aware of...

I don't know what kinds of effects those changes would have. What I do know is that Tannehill just got a new offensive coordinator who was the QB...

If you respond in this thread by answering any of the questions posed, does it mean you "hate" Tannehill?

Throughout his career, there has been no strong correlation, game-by-game, between Tannehill's performance and the number of sacks the team has taken.

It means something because it gives you an idea of the team's chances of being highly competitive.

That really isn't the question for me. The question for me is whether the Dolphins have the kind of quarterback play that can make them highly...

Prior to today's game, Ryan Tannehill had three passes of 20+ yards in the air dropped, which was no different from the league norm. This isn't...

I'm sure you realize that you're speaking about an offense that scored 13 points in a must-win game? Of what is being the best player on such an...

Runs on 3rd and 3 are successful more often than passes.

I wish to argue nothing other than there is no objective evidence that Tannehill is playing at the level he needs to for the team to be highly...

And one can certainly propose that there are other parts of the team responsible for his performance, but there is no objective evidence that when...

Right, but you don't bet on any games where there's a chance of that. In this one there was no such chance.

Shows you the difference here between a team that can move the ball virtually at will and a team that's very far from being able to do that.

Should've bet on New England -23 in the 3rd quarter.

17-0 in the 3rd quarter alone, folks.

Patriots' offense looking pathetic with a meager 3.6 yards per play. That's a good bit worse than even New York Jets territory.

How about Philbin using all three of those time-outs and then throwing a bomb? I guess he wasn't feeling real queasy. ;)

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Barring some sort of insanity here, I just won some money on a first-half bet on the Patriots -6. Now I don't feel so bad going into the half....

Do a first-half bet on the opposing team, and hopefully the Dolphins win in the end.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&year_min=2004&year_max=2014&season_start=1&season_end=-1&age...

The line on this game has gone from 8 to 9.5 in favor of the Patriots in just the past 24 hours.

And that would seem to be a prerequisite for being just a starter in the NFL. In other words, if the conditions around you are ideal, can you...

I think you could make an argument either way. You could say he's progressing, but you could also say the offense has been scaled back to the...

You gotta get up around 1% of your weekly income. At that point the win by the other team will ease the pain a good bit I presume. ;)

And that may be true, but using the same logic, I'm not sure how anyone can be convinced, either, that Tannehill would be any better than he is...

And there you're talking about games against the QBs with the top three WPAs in the league, whereas Tannehill is 20th in the league, only one spot...

I'm not saying I want Matt Moore to start, but in his last stint as a starter, Matt Moore wasn't significantly worse, overall, than Tannehill....

And he needs to begin making more plays when his rhythm is disturbed, as well.

What'll be interesting here in the near future is to look at how Johnny Manziel plays, and then figure whether the Dolphins should've drafted him...

The offensive line arguments should be put to rest in my opinion, because Tannehill's key figures haven't changed since Texas A&M, despite...

Patriots have won 16 division home games in a row.

Those figures (completion percentage and YPA), with a relatively low interception rate such as Tannehill's, essentially make him a game manager....

The problem with that sort of thinking is that the game is such that 10-15 level quarterbacking necessitates an unlikely caliber of play elsewhere...

That's happened once this season.

What it looks like to me is that, unless Tannehill develops further substantially, what you have is a quarterback who is confined to a system and...

Following a football team closely involves some degree of "loving" mediocrity, because with the parity in the league, every team has the greatest...

There have been 15 games since 1994 in which a team with a winning record was favored by 7 or more at home against a division team with a winning...

Certainly if you don't have an abundance of the short-area playmakers I mentioned above, you'd better be hitting the deep ball with regularity....

If you're going to be the team that throws the fewest downfield (20+ yards) passes in the air, you'd better have receivers and running backs who...

What's interesting about this topic is that I suspect the offensive line in general is no worse than the average line in the league, and what we...

There are lots of unknowns with this team. Joe Philbin, Ryan Tannehill, Bill Lazor, Kevin Coyle, Dennis Hickey. Does anybody really know how...

I thought you were arguing that it's impossible to tell the job a head coach is doing if he doesn't have very good quarterback play, and Ryan...

No one is going to be able to refute your position that Philbin is at fault for this portion of the team's play. It's an unfalsifiable position....

And by the same token you have to tip your cap to Hickey et al., because there wouldn't be such a drop-off if Albert and James weren't so good....

First of all, we don't even know if offensive line coaches make their lines play better. Second, we don't know if head coaches who were former...

Ray Lewis. Aaron Rodgers. Alex Smith and a good pass defense, and even then they're a mere 7-6 because Smith is nothing but a game manager....

Of course none of us likes how the Baltimore game turned out, but how does that tell us what to attribute to Joe Philbin?

Is there any solid evidence you're aware of that even offensive line coaches, let alone head coaches, who are much less involved in individual...

I don't think any of us, myself included, knows with certainty how much of the team's performance to attribute to Joe Philbin. It could very well...

And you can also ask what happened to Clay. I have no idea how an offense centered around the short passing game hasn't featured Brian Hartline,...

True. Stafford just vaulted up near the top this year. Romo has been near the top more often than not, and is 4th this year. It certainly isn't...

I can't imagine why. The guy hasn't even been a coordinator for a year, and hasn't done anything that we could call "successful" with any...

Thanks. I think you do see a lot of overlap between general quality of play and WPA. What's interesting to me is when there is a bit of a...

What are the six teams you mentioned earlier in the thread, if you don't mind saying?

The thing about Dallas Thomas and the offensive line is that they have to do a better job of keeping the offense in more beneficial...

And let me guess: those are the teams with the best quarterbacks.

Fineas tell me what you think of this stat: http://www.advancedfootballanalytics.com/index.php/home/stats/stats-explained/win-probability-and-wpa

Ah yes, "that" Jerome Bettis game. My memory failed me there. True, he had a poor game, though since we're talking about a Hall-of-Famer here, I...

First the players have to be confident that their own team talent can win games, and that starts with having some unit on the field that's...

Ideally I'd want Landry wide as a possession guy, someone like Vincent Jackson on the other side as a bigger, downfield guy, and someone with...

We still need information about whether the deep balls thrown to Wallace have been appreciably longer in the air on average than the ones thrown...

I think it's very much that they take it upon themselves to win the game, on the other hand, and that's apparent in their emotional response after...

Oh I don't think any of this can be quantified, and as both I and Fineas have said, it can't be proven or disproven. I think it comes down to...

There is a lot of overlap, sure. The leaders are simply the guys who take it upon themselves to make plays to win games, and then do. While the...

We'd have to know whether those things happen disproportionately more for Tannehill than for other QBs to know whether they have any import in...

Even players who are at an extreme in terms of being responsible for themselves would presumably still be affected positively by the inspirational...

There's no reason why inspiration derived from leadership has to be confined to the locker room or to "speeches." It can stem from plays made...

Are the throws to Wallace farther in the air and therefore harder to complete?

Last night they played against one of the worst pass defenses in the league, with one of the worst defensive lines in the league. When Ryan...

I do think team character is as "local" as you're potraying it to be. Indeed, the likes of Joey Porter can be highly inspirational on one team,...

You mentioned Brady, Peyton Manning, and Eli Manning. Those guys have accounted for 10 of the past 26 quarterbacks involved in Super Bowls (past...

Does your line of work involve a group of people pursuing a common goal, who see each other's performance and count on each other to reach that...

And unfortunately it appears to be explained by a whole lot more than a "catch radius." Something as small as a foot or two either way isn't...

We'll have to agree to disagree on that. I happen to believe that playoff wins are accounted for by player leadership (and consequently team...

Is it possible he has a weakness?

Right, but not all of those games were must-wins against virtually equally good teams. This Dolphins/Ravens matchup was a must-win for both...

There are two areas of Tannehill's game -- 1) yards per attempt, and 2) deep passing -- that haven't changed since he was at Texas A&M, and that...

Tannehill is a quarterback who neither loses nor wins games for his team, and he therefore needs help from elsewhere (defense, running game,...

And that is because the team doesn't have the sort of quarterback play to make it a playoff lock to begin with. Consequently its margin for error...

In games such as that one (a must-win against an equally good team), leadership among the players creates the drive and the will to win, and that...

Did you forget the first-ballot Hall-of-Famer they have at quarterback?

Just about any team would win 11 with them, and with our pass defense they'd win 13.

I look at it the other way around. Any subjective opinion should be supported statistically, regardless of how "expert" it is. If it can't be...

First, a team must have at least adequate quarterback play to be competitive in the league. Without that, a team has no chance. Second, the team...

I think the improvement rests rather on whether the team can get playmakers at receiver who can be elusive, play in space, get yards after the...

But that's exactly what makes those statistics valid. When you can look at a list of QBs with fairly lengthy careers and see a strong correlation...

Right. There are statistics that I think should be considered valid in telling us how someone is playing currently, while having unknown validity...

I think Philbin does have strengths revolving around general intelligence and the ability to see the team from the big picture and implement...

I think a big part of the problem with Philbin is that he seems to be so risk averse that he doesn't try things that can help the team win. It's...

And the problem with that, in addition to the obvious imbalance offensively, is that early in the game Lamar Miller looked like he was going to...

He throws in 2.5 seconds or faster 57.7% of the time, not significantly different from the league norm. How quickly pressure reaches him on...

Regardless of the evaluation method used, people are going to be right some of the time, and wrong some of the time. Using statistics alone, in...

While our perceptions of this issue in general may be inordinately influenced by Dallas Thomas's poor day yesterday, it remains the case that...

In a must-win situation such as yesterday, the team with the players who step up and make big plays, set the tone for their team, and inspire...

It sounds like we should probably agree to disagree at this point. I don't go by what my eyes tell me.

I strongly doubt Tannehill's being in the 0th percentile in the league in downfield pass yardage in the air is accounted for by someone's "poor...

In terms of drops and downfield passing numbers, you're looking at Tannehill alone without comparing him to the other QBs in the league. In other...

These are PFF's numbers on balls thrown 20+ yards in the air.

Tannehill has three drops on passes thrown 20+ yards in the air. The league average is two.

Tannehill's at 8% this year, which is below the league average of 12.7, and he's completed 32.4% of those, which is below the league average of...

What elite skills are you seeing?

Rodgers is one of the few QBs in the league whose QB rating is higher on throws made after 2.5 seconds than on ones made in 2.5 seconds or faster.

It actually should've been more conservative in the fourth quarter in my opinion. Once the team abandoned the run down 21-13, Dumervil was able...

The QB is part of the issue because he's unable to surmount those circumstances like the great ones do. And at this point in the evolution of the...

Dallas Thomas became a problem when the team went down 21-13, and they abandoned the running game. At that point Elvis Dumervil pinned his ears...

Brady is a first-ballot Hall-of-Famer. The sort of margin of error you constrain yourself to by relinquishing the ability for explosive plays in...

I think part of the problem may be that Joe Philbin is trying to recreate what he had with his Super Bowl-winning Green Bay Packers, replete with...

But that's the sort of narrow margin for error you limit yourself to when you have no explosive playmaking ability in the passing game....

And you could argue that the QB position should be played that way league-wide. When QBs throw after 2.5 seconds, their QB ratings drop...

That happens far too infrequently, however. The quarterback position is a playmaking position in today's game. Plays have to be made from that...

I don't know if anyone noticed, but if you watch the replay, it very much appears that Odrick had a chance to tackle Forsett at about the line of...

That motivation needs to come from leaders among the players who show up big and make big plays in games like the one today. There was no one who...

Ryan Tannehill needs a superior running game to be successful at the level necessary in today's NFL. With a short field game manager type, along...

What do they say? Big players make big plays in big games. Was this a big game? Sure. Who made plays? Nobody I saw. For the other team,...

But the team has no margin for those sorts of errors. That's a big part of the problem.

And there you have it.

And when you're under those conditions, you absolutely cannot get sacked. You have to get the ball out of there within three seconds, even if it...

And here's where you need the downfield passing game you don't have.

One of the problems with the short passing game is that when you get sacked, you don't have the ability to overcome it.

Typical game so far. Defense impressive, offense fairly one-dimensional.

Worst pass defense in the league, and Miami takes no shots downfield, even in favorable conditions (like 1st and 5).

The point was simply that Brady has the ability to scale his game to whatever the surrounding talent dictates, whereas I don't think any of us can...

This is where we'll see what this team is made of, folks.

Brady was pressured on 30% of his pass dropbacks that year, which wasn't significantly different from the league average.

Matt Cassel had an 89 QB rating, a 7.2 YPA, completed 63% of his passes, and attempted only 9% of his passes 20+ yards in the air downfield, which...

The difference with Brady and QBs like him, however, is that when the personnel around them calls for it, they're able to flexibly adapt their...

Do you think there would be a difference?

Pass defense is more important, however, and the Dolphins are among the best in the league in that area. On top of that, the run defense has...

I suspect you're basing that impression on how NFL defenses used to play, rather than how they play currently, now that the NFL has tilted the...

He's great as a coordinator because the "loose cannon" approach fits well when it can infuse a defense with wild aggression without creating the...

Well and it also makes it incumbent on Tannehill to recognize where pressure is likely to come from and adjust. There's only so much the...

And not losing the game but not winning it either is exactly the phrase that best captures his overall play at the present time.

The Eagles led the league in percentage of throws of 20+ yards in 2013, when Bill Lazor was the QB coach.

I think that's true, though I don't see why there isn't room for the kind of evade-pressure-and-hit-Wallace-deep-when-he's-wide-open plays that...

No one is saying Tannehill is a top-three QB (at least not that I'm aware of), but if they aren't, then why attribute losses in games to the best...

I have to wonder if he's making the "aggressive" pre-snap read, finding the single covered man, especially when it's Wallace, and overruling the...

Those games were indeed competitive, until the teams with the top three QBs in the league at clutch play were in the clutch, and those QBs played...

And really it makes little sense to focus on such small aspects of the game in evaluating the Dolphins' performance. The bigger picture is that...

One could also argue that just about any team is going to be affected negatively by being lopsided to an extreme in some area. Again, the...

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-dolphins/sfl-hyde5-why-tannehill-is-alex-smith-mystery-of-dolphins-rushing-stats-20141203-story.html

That's from their sample statistics page and is outdated. Based on the real, current info, Tannehill throws passes 20+ yards in the air 8% of the...

What kind of information would tell you that statement was false?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/football-insider/post/nfl-offenses-must-take-risks-to-score-points-throwing-the-deep-ball/2011/11/30/gIQA4JoQDO...

He probably doesn't win 13 games and the Super Bowl, but with the same performance on his part, and with an average defense and running game, he...

There are better ways of doing it, but those ways are strongly correlated with wins. An example of an exception to the rule is Matt Ryan's...

That sounds like it might've been the Michael Stewart/Gene Atkins thing.

I liked the read-option inside run by Tannehill I saw against the Jets. Get Haloti Ngata thinking about that for a change. Some middle screens...

This game is going to come down to whether there is an offensive personality on the Dolphins who can make plays and inspire the offense enough to...

If you ever want an accurate appraisal of what the team is made of, this will be it.

I wonder what they would say about Alex Smith in that regard, because I see Tannehill as being very similar to Smith at this point in his career....

But it's hard to know what they mean. Does Brunell think some of the Dolphins' remaining four opponents are too strong for Tannehill to combat?...

When folks like those don't provide any objective data or reasons for their viewpoints, it's difficult to confirm or refute what they're saying.

The interesting thing about this "stats" discussion is that it's happening in the context of a group of people who would all rather see one thing...

But they hardly have an alternative. They don't have the quick-strike, Peyton Manning-esque,...

It's also rare that you'll find a game in which a team wins convincingly on the basis of such a lopsided emphasis on the run. There typically...

And even among the people who might consider him to be in the top 10 in the league, he would probably be near the bottom of that 10, which would...

The best things about that game were 1) the team's clutch play in pulling out the win, and 2) the emergence of Dion Sims as a receiver, especially...

Teams in this situation are about 50/50 in covering the spread since 1994. Late in the season, heavily favored, away, against a division rival.

That would be true tonight if they weren't playing one of the worst quarterbacks in the league. Normally a team would have play-action...

Not liking the feel of this one. Division rival underdog at home, with nothing to lose.

Brilliant kickoff there to keep the ball away from Harvin while still keeping them inside the 20.

And it really doesn't matter, because the stats are what they are. Someone can be as biased as the day is long, and Dan Marino still has 420...

It's true that correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation, but that doesn't mean statistics don't have meaning. Certainly we shouldn't think...

What's more informative in my opinion is the record a QB's play is associated with, because it indicates how much help he's going to need from...

There's variation in the play of all QBs, though that variation hovers around a higher mark for the better ones than for the lesser ones. All...

While I don't think teams' records should be the basis on which quarterbacks are evaluated, the Dolphins' record during Tannehill's tenure is...

It's entirely possible that Dion Jordan is simply just a flop.

It's simply an illusion to think the game rides on decisions such as those. I suspect it's a way of feeling like the team is better than it...

Ironically, a run play is more likely to get the yardage for a first down on 3rd and long than a pass play. The erroneous thinking here is that...

The pass offense is among the worst in the league in efficiency, and that's going to make it hard for a team to be any better than mediocre,...

It has nothing to do with Tannehill. It's simply a commentary on how much success in the NFL revolves around QB play. If I'm going to appraise...

Flacco's play in the playoffs and the Super Bowl in 2012 was exemplary. Without that they likely don't win. He wasn't average in the playoffs...

It's not that I'm hard to please; it's just the sobering reality of the NFL and how it currently revolves around the QB position. The teams with...

Unfortunately if all he ends up being is a 10th- to 12th-ranked QB in the league, he's going to need lots of help from elsewhere on the team,...

The point is that Manning's level of QB play in the 4th quarter was much more likely to prevail over Tannehill's. I knew the history of data...

Since 2004 there have been 80 games in which one QB had a QB rating of at least 146 (what Manning had in the 4th quarter against Miami). Those...

In the 227 games since 2004 in which a QB had a QB rating at least as high as Peyton Manning's in the game against Miami, his team won 220 of them...

And the problem there is that, without the threat of the downfield pass, opposing defenses can crowd the line of scrimmage and take away the run...

In the 4th quarter, Manning's QB rating was 146, and Tannehill's was 82. In a close game such as that, that sort of outdueling at the QB position...

It's no coincidence that even during Ryan Tannehill's stretch of much better play over the last eight games, the team has been beaten by the three...

I'd be less inclined to blame Tannehill for the deep passing game if it wasn't an issue that dated back to Texas A&M.

Part of the issue, as I mentioned, is that we're rarely seeing the downfield throws that result from evading pressure and targeting receivers who...

Check the stats from 2010 and 2011.

And let me clarify that I certainly don't think he doesn't have the arm strength to get the ball downfield, but that he simply hasn't been...

After last year's nightmare, the Dolphins aren't in a position to endure another public relations mess.

And hopefully it will, because we'd see his game take a quantum leap from where it is now if he were able to become more proficient at 1) evading...

And that's essentially where his career is teetering right now in terms of his ceiling, because if and when he opens up his game in that area, it...

Precisely. And you won't beat those teams routinely unless you have such a QB, or you have a somewhat lesser QB (Alex Smith, Flacco, Tannehill,...

Only against teams with QBs to whom all defenses are vulnerable in such situations, unless the defense is among the best of all time ('85 Bears,...

It isn't unusual for teams to be in position to win games in the fourth quarter in the NFL, given the parity in the league. Of the approximately...

This is definitely the "clutch play" area that distinguishes him from the QBs who can win games for their teams without exceptional help from...

You have five different statistics there. What is #1 in the NFL?

Tannehill has taken a huge stride forward in that he is now no longer the kind of quarterback who occasionally loses games for his team all by...

I would submit that the team's evolution this year has been marked by having a quarterback who no longer occasionally loses games for it. The...

The tendency in games like these is to try to zero in on one or just a few plays and attribute the loss to them, whereas the bigger picture...

I'm not sure we can say with any certainty that the pass wouldn't have been completed had he not bitten on the fake. Certainly Peyton Manning and...

This is a problem, however, because you can't depend on 10- and 12-play drives when you need quick scores or you're in a shootout against the best...

And you're right that there has been no counter. Alex Smith-level play at QB isn't going to do it unless you have the equivalent of the 2013...

It wasn't a defensive issue when Michael Jordan would erupt for 20 points in a fourth quarter and will his team to victory. Here's what someone...

The efficiency of the passing game, as measured by yards per pass...

There are going to be games in which your defense is unable to contend with the ability of a highly talented player(s) on the opposing team, and...

The passing offense is still very inefficient (29th in the league), and that's a big predictor of winning in the NFL. Hard to be much better than...

Actually Ryan Tannehill stood toe-to-toe with Peyton Manning for three quarters in Denver, until the game entered the clutch and Manning outplayed...

That's the point. Manning's QB rating was 135 today. There have been 227 games since 2004 in which one QB had a QB rating of 135 or higher....

Any QB who isn't in Peyton Manning's category stands a fairly poor chance of beating him if he doesn't get either 1) an unusually good game out of...

Manning's QB rating was over 30 points higher than Tannehill's, which was a product of his better completion percentage (80%), his higher YPA, and...

The Broncos have averaged 6.2 yards per play this year, and they averaged 6.3 today. They didn't do anything out of the ordinary overall...

And that's exactly what I'm saying. If you have QB talent on the level of Flacco or Eli Manning, you'd better have exceptional play elsewhere....

The opposing QB put up 39. You know, Peyton Manning, the first-ballot Hall-of-Famer who had a 135 QB rating and a YPA above 7 today? It's ironic...

Well you saw it out there today, in fact. The team got Alex Smith-level play at QB, and because it didn't have stellar play on defense or with...

Perhaps, but he's an Alex Smith-type QB at this point, which means the team needs exceptional play elsewhere, either on defense or in terms of...

The difference at this point is that the Dolphins tend to allow other teams' QBs to win games for them with the pass, while they continue to be...

The Broncos were averaging 6.2 yards per play prior to the game, and had 6.3 yards per play in the game. The Dolphins were averaging 5.3 yards...

Not in today's NFL, where the game is slanted toward the pass, and you have the likes of Manning, Rodgers, Brees, and Brady roaming around. Hell,...

You could've put Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Philip Rivers, or Drew Brees in Denver this week, and the game might've looked very similar. This game...

The same thing happened on the game-winning drives by Aaron Rodgers and Matthew Stafford. The game is slanted toward the offense. When you have...

That has a great deal to do with the talent the Broncos have on offense.

They won't be playing perhaps the best QB of all time every week.

It sounds like folks here expected the Dolphins to win? Is there another team in the league you would've expected to win in Denver this week,...

You can't expect a defense to play any better than this in Denver, with Denver coming off a loss away against the Rams. Peyton Manning and...

Bad luck right there. Can't do anything about that.

That run was a good start and a good sign.

Tannehill played well in the first half because the running game kept him out of difficult down-and-distance situations. We'll see if that can...

There isn't a single other team in the league that would be favored to win in Denver. This is hardly that sort of measuring stick.

Coyle needs to start blitzing and at least go down swinging. No other type of defense is working.

And that's the question.

Don't forget the Broncos are without Talib and Thomas, so we shouldn't be crying about our own injuries.

Prepare for the moral victory, folks.

This team has played 10 games and has already been defined. It's a team with a great defense, an above-average running game, and a slightly...

Here's a page with Tannehill's deep passing numbers in his senior year in college, about a quarter of the page...

The impressive thing about the Buffalo game was that it was the first time this year that the Dolphins' offense functioned well against a team...

An article on the value of deep passing...

The difficulty in this game will be with Buffalo's defensive line, because lines like theirs tend to stuff the Dolphins' running game and put the...

Everything written above could be explained by the kind of quarterback play present in Miami and Philadelphia.

I don't mean by crossing the line of scrimmage. I mean by evading pressure and finding an open man downfield. The Dolphins were playing a team...

Does the coordinator have to gameplan the use of Tannehill's legs into the gameplan for him to use them, or can he use them on his own? I don't...

Great stuff!