Tannehill is actually the perfect qb for the Dolphins. The worst thing you want to be in the NFL is to be average, you either want to be going to the playoffs every year or bad enough to get some real blue chip talent. This team does neither, stays right in the middle. Tannehill is the exact same, he won't ever be a pro bowler but he doesn't suck bad enough to where you just say "we gotta move on" he just lulls you to sleep with 5 wasted seasons of mediocrity.
Precisely. I noticed that Dave Hyde in his most recent column emphasized the trend that I posted a month or two, that the Dolphins are the only team in the league to win between 6 and 10 games every season since 2009.
The Crowd danger was obvious with Ryan Tannehill. He had to be avoided at all costs. It reminds me of that original Star Trek episode, where Spock said starkly to Kirk, "Edith Keeler must die."
I wish someone in the organization pre draft in 2012 would have been sharp enough to identify Ryan Tannehill as exactly the type of quarterback who would do just enough to tease every year. He looks the part. The tape guys are going to be fooled. But when you don't start a collegiate season opener at quarterback until beyond your 23rd birthday, something vital is missing. The temptation to draft a low percentage type like that needed to die in that draft room. I might have deemed it amusing 30 years ago but in my late 50s it is beyond maddening.
Who knows what we would have done without Tannehill? Maybe some awful choices at quarterback. Who cares? Try again. It could not have been less entertaining than what we've experienced...the annual insistence to keep waiting. The years drip away and mostly blend.
After my original YouTube channel was zapped a few years ago due to copyright complaints and I finally decided to start another one, I named it in honor of Tannehill. I am now called Wasted Century.
I guess it only seems that way.