I will point to one specific play that TOO ME, is what best show my point of view. The last game of the season against a terrible Texas team. While being pretty solid the first half. He comes out after half and just has these "WTF" moments. The 3rd qt INT that was returned for a TD. He had one read and he stared it down. Now maybe his WR half assed it, maybe he didn't. But the fact he locked on and never looked to his TE in that situation goes against all the hype here that he knows how to read defenses and is composed and this and that. He took his drop back and locked on, let it rip.
Now in the ebb and flow of a game, that was the turning point in my opinion. A game against a inferior opponent, was changed on that 1 play.
Pundits, scouting reports and many others have commented endlessly that he has a problem w/ locking onto recievers. Something Henne got crucified for here and the media. But yet, you and others here want to give a guy with limited experience the benefit of the doubt and invest a TOP 10 pick on the guy. This guy wouldn't be a TOP 10 talent if Barkley comes out. And he shouldn't be since Barkley isn't.
Not a good game for Tannehill overall, I'd say. Especially the two third quarter interceptions. Yet he still managed to come back and throw a touchdown to put A&M up by a point with under two minutes left, only to see Texas hit a field goal at the buzzer.
But a couple of things here. First, that you say it was a "terrible" Texas team. This to me speaks volumes about how much college football you watch. Texas was not particularly good on offense but their defense was excellent in 2011, ranking 14th in the nation overall and 13th in passing yards per play. Did you know that?
Secondly, I must be the first to inform you that you apparently have a rather rabid case of confirmation bias. You have by your own admission read in multiple places that Tannehill stares down his receivers. You remember this being said about Henne, to your horror. So then when you see a case where Tannehill does this (and every quarterback does it, for reference allow me to point you to a pick 6 no less than Andrew Luck threw in the fourth quarter against USC) you suddenly think you have a full evaluation on your hands. Tannehill = Henne. OMG! And he's inexperienced!
Only you don't have a full evaluation, unless you count lazy bull**** as an evaluation.
Look, I don't blame anybody for coming to a different conclusion than me about a player. That's what all this is about. I mean, I'm not even completely sold on Tannehill. I've posted about his low YPA numbers before, and about the danger of looking at his mistakes and seeing inexperience rather than deficiencies. But this whole line of **** about pundits? WTF is that, exactly? Does anyone care about the pundits? Are the pundits informing the Dolphins' decisions? Am I?
All I care about is watching these guys play and then coming to my own conclusions about them. I don't give much of a **** about convincing anyone about it. I do place some value on discussing my opinions, obviously. That's why I'm here. But you seem to want to blame everybody who likes Tannehill for something, as if it's a crime to say you like a player on a public forum.
This would be laughable in itself except that it's pretty clear that you haven't watched very much of Tannehill.
