"That has more to do with Dalton being terrible. Dude is already as good as he'll ever be. If anything, the fact that the offense has been that effective with Dalton back there is a credit to Gruden's ability."
You stole my post. Dalton's melt-down is all about what lies in his psyche and how he handles pressure. The play designs and overall flow of the offense are really good. Dalton just doesn't seem to have 'it'. He lacks poise and makes bad plays when he's pushed to the brink.
To some degree, this is why I'd like to see some competition for Tannehill this summer. He makes some of those bonehead plays too that scare me, but then he also makes some miraculous plays. Still, you could see confidence just draining out of him late in that Jets game. When things start to 'snowball' on a QB, it reveals a fragile psyche and we just can't have that and think we're gonna go anywhere. I'll take a guy with lesser physical metrics but more poise anytime. That's 50/50 with a slight + in Tannehill's favor, IMO. He overcame some really bad starts to rally his team quite a few times this season. He started the 2nd half of the Pittsburgh game with a pick-6, then took the team down the field for a TD, then answered yet another Pittsburgh score to give us the winning margin.
I just wanna see our guy compete compete compete, and I want an offensive coordinator that's gonna push RT to do that. No more of this 'running for 20 yards and sliding so that you missed the first down by one yard' BS. Make Tanny compete in practice, and if he chokes vs camp competition then it's an easy decision. The David Garrard injury in 2012 pretty much handed RT17 the job, and there was no competition in 2013 at all. We did start 3-0 so it didn't seem necessary, but our D did have to hold on to leads when the offense failed to ice the game and left the door open.
