Omars tweet laid no standards to meet for his ranking so your implying yardage and wins last season is the equivalent to me using the future as a guide line. The difference is I specified if those were the guidelines that is how I would make my decision. You assumed last years numbers were the guidelines for the debate.
So you'd rather rank quarterbacks today based on what they might do tomorrow. And that's supposed to make sense? How do you determine who might do what when?
You don't have to answer those questions. What you're doing is perfectly clear. It's not honest, but it's clear. You said Brady and Manning "look to be in decline" and while that's inevitable with every player, we really haven't seen it yet with either. Both put up numbers last year that we'd be very happy with should RT ever do it.
Manning had a great season last year and I assume will this season but he also had a ton of weapons that we have nothing that even looks similar.
I don't exclude, as you seem to be doing, the possibility of a great quarterback making the people around them look a lot better than they actually are.
Manning wins games with a earned knowledge of football as does Brady, it isn't in either case as much their football physical skills anymore. For people like Omar and you to think a guy like Tannehill should compete in that realm is unrealistic.
Manning won 13 games in his second year in the league. Are you saying he had an "earned knowledge of football" in just his second year? Sorry, this argument doesn't line up with reality.
Question, your signature criticizes the Dolphins and you openly do it. Why not just find another team to pull for? We are in the off season of a team that is clearly into the middle steps of developing and nothing will make you happy.
I've been a fan of this team since 1968. If you can look at what this team has done over the past 10 years and find something to be happy about, perhaps you're setting the bar a bit low (I'd argue a LOT low).
My only issue with your original post is describing Brady and Manning as two players in decline. That's simply wishful thinking because the stats just don't bear it out. Granted, neither of us know when either will get to the point when they're clearly not up to playing the game, but judging by what both did last year, neither of them are at that point yet and both are better than our qb.
And I happen to like my sig pic very much. Being a fan of a team doesn't mean I have to turn off my brain and refuse to see our flaws. I remember when this team was feared, when we were dominant, when we were respected and always mentioned in post-season discussions. But that's thirty years behind us. THIRTY YEARS!!! Perhaps you're not overly disappointed being a middle of the pack almost-ran. Perhaps for you, not finishing last is good enough. I wish I could share in that joy with you. I can't.