That's true. I know you want Tannehill to take off more often. I'd like him to drop back and fire over the middle. Damn the consequences of either one. If he gets passes batted down like his rookie year, that's fine. If he takes some hits, that's okay. He seems to be sliding more intelligently than early career.
There have been many threads here pretending that the weaknesses are not weaknesses. I hope those are out the door, or properly mocked if they show up again. Those threads have always been insulting but the long offseason allows plenty of time to pull up a screen cap or video that intentionally slants away from the truth.
You Know Awsi this is what I've always thought and stated over his 7 years, I've been hoping for him to improve to get by, but..
Bottom line I don't trust his skills when protection breaks down, and inevitably, that's what's always going to happen, especially when you enter the playoffs, and when your on the road in hostile environments, I feel that a championship QB, no matter the skill level, to win big games on the road or in the playoffs, he will have to make a few plays every game, individually, when protection breaks down, I simply do not trust our Qb in those situations, never have, the processing speed physically and mentally is not there, the vision is not there of the whole field, nor is it peripherally, the quickness to navigate out of trouble is simply not in his DNA.
The other thing I don't like about him is situational awareness and the conscious effort to run off script, I mean to not have the cognizance to threaten a defense with your legs, when you have the skills to do so it just plain dumb, don't care what anyone says, its not smart football, show the defense that if they turn their backs on you early in the game, that you will blatantly take off and make them pay..never does he do this..it maddening.
As far as Gase goes, he's just as much to blame, you have a qb that understands the read option very well and has a knack of how to read that end..avering 1 a game is not cutting it.
When you have a QB that is absolutely lethal on the run, and Im talking from both sides, and your averaging 1 boot a game..is not cutting it.
If Ryan would run more on his own, if we ran more read option, and if we got him on the hoof lets say 3 or 4 more times than we do, on all these traits, I bet we would be a better offense that converted third downs much more than being inept at the most important down in football, but ive been saying this for 7 years, and it just never improves.
At least while you have him, use all parts of the skillset, demand that he make some things happen if his first and 2nd read isn't there,maybe that will give him a head start on trying to anticipate and navigate his way out of hairy situations.
