Darlington: Tannehill to start vs Raiders

[Sons Of Shula]

I've never been a fan of that ground control, ground and pound, run the ball and hide your quarterback style of play. I think it only works if you have a top tier rushing attack and a top tier defense. We don't have either of those.

From what I've seen of the Raiders, this 'throw the ball 50 times and run it 15' nonsense is a one way ticket to an interim head coach. Heck, I don't even think that's a bad thing right now, but that's what it is. That Raiders secondary is aggressive and made some nice plays against Tom Brady.

But they can't stop the rushing attack I saw in week one or week three.

Me neither. You can't win these days like that anyways. But I do believe in balanced playcalling. We've been way more lopsided in passing the ball than we should be. Especially with a QB learning a new offense.

 

[DeathStar]

Philbin is on the fringe of losing this team and its fan base.

Better have a epic showing against the Raiders or things will turn sour quick.

Yup.

 

[Finland]

Joe has butchered this week to say the least.

Stay behind your QB or bench him. This "46 best players" crap is BS.

In a strange way, it might unite the team…as they play in spite of their HC.

I agree. Here again, I don't think he is a good coach. I don't mind the tactic, but it is being used in the wrong circumstance. It is not what Tannehill needs.

 

[Awsi Dooger]

I threw away the tape but when I watched the game the second time I didn't think Daniel Thomas made a poor play by staying in bounds. From memory he cut inside a tackler at roughly the 20 yard line while going full blast and extra yards available. At that point he's out of control and besides he's not a multiple cut back anyway. It didn't seem to be within his capacity to make the move inside for the extra yards and then to immediately zig outside again to get out of bounds. It was either go out at the 20 or 22 or end up where he did. Admittedly I'm doing this from memory but it was so clear cut I didn't rewind to watch again.

Philbin made the mistake, not Thomas. That final time out has to come at 41 seconds. At that point you get the full compliment of 4 plays and everybody knows to hurry and not to make stupid decisions. The fact that we still had the time out encouraged dunce Tannehill to take off toward the goal line. Otherwise he throws it away and we get to line up again before the field goal.

 

[FearTheBeard]

No ****.

 

[hoops]

I threw away the tape but when I watched the game the second time I didn't think Daniel Thomas made a poor play by staying in bounds. From memory he cut inside a tackler at roughly the 20 yard line while going full blast and extra yards available. At that point he's out of control and besides he's not a multiple cut back anyway. It didn't seem to be within his capacity to make the move inside for the extra yards and then to immediately zig outside again to get out of bounds. It was either go out at the 20 or 22 or end up where he did. Admittedly I'm doing this from memory but it was so clear cut I didn't rewind to watch again.

Philbin made the mistake, not Thomas. That final time out has to come at 41 seconds. At that point you get the full compliment of 4 plays and everybody knows to hurry and not to make stupid decisions. The fact that we still had the time out encouraged dunce Tannehill to take off toward the goal line. Otherwise he throws it away and we get to line up again before the field goal.

agreed

 

[nick1]

Looks like the oline last year killed tannehill. Another QBs development killed by a bad oline

 

[nick1]

As for the news it's obvious. If you make a switch you do it in week 6 after a bye week not on a short prep week due to traveling to london

 

[uk_dolfan]

id like to ****ing think so

 

[roy_miami]

I threw away the tape but when I watched the game the second time I didn't think Daniel Thomas made a poor play by staying in bounds. From memory he cut inside a tackler at roughly the 20 yard line while going full blast and extra yards available. At that point he's out of control and besides he's not a multiple cut back anyway. It didn't seem to be within his capacity to make the move inside for the extra yards and then to immediately zig outside again to get out of bounds. It was either go out at the 20 or 22 or end up where he did. Admittedly I'm doing this from memory but it was so clear cut I didn't rewind to watch again.

Philbin made the mistake, not Thomas. That final time out has to come at 41 seconds. At that point you get the full compliment of 4 plays and everybody knows to hurry and not to make stupid decisions. The fact that we still had the time out encouraged dunce Tannehill to take off toward the goal line. Otherwise he throws it away and we get to line up again before the field goal.

Disagree on Thomas. He was already headed towards the sideline, inexcusable to cut back inside there under the circumstances. Miller had similar options twice on that drive and went out but nobody notices because you just take it for granted.

Agree on not using the timeout there, in hindsight though, in real time I had no issue with it. Is 23 seconds a typical amount of time to get a play off there? Is there really that big of a difference between 22 seconds with a timeout and 40 without a timeout at the 13 yard line? It seems to me either way you should have 3 plays to get in the end zone.

Not sure if the situation of having no timeouts would have smartened Tannehill up, I'll give you that "happy adjustment" though and we can pretend it would have.

Anyway, a field goal was a good result with everything considered, you absolutely cannot get shut out in the first half two weeks in a row. The players need to smarten the **** up once in a while and quit putting the coach in the position to have choose between bad or really bad options.

 

[phins_4_ever]

Alex Marvez ‏@alexmarvez
Bill Polian believes Ryan Tannehill is "not real confident" with @MiamiDolphins o-line yet, translating to him rushing through progressions

Really? Is that why he is holding onto the ball too long at times?

My goodness. How many excuses can we find? This getting absurd?

 

[phins_4_ever]

Dolphins players give Ryan Tannehill vote of confidence


“There is no doubt in my mind that Ryan [Tannehill] is our guy," Dolphins tight end Charles Clay told the Sun-Sentinel. "It is still early."
This isn’t time for anyone to panic," Clay said. "It is still a lot of football left. A lot of things we can do to help him out. He’s our guy. When we turn this thing around he’ll be the guy to do it.”
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/...l-vote-of-confidence-20140923,0,5628790.story

What is Clay supposed to say? Our QB sucks?

 

[J. David Wannyheimer]

Really? Is that why he is holding onto the ball too long at times?

My goodness. How many excuses can we find? This getting absurd?

Yeah I don't buy that one and I don't know where Polian is coming for with that one.

 

[phins_4_ever]

Yeah I don't buy that one and I don't know where Polian is coming for with that one.

I usually hold Polian very high. But I don't think he really has watched the Dolphins this year. Of the 4 sacks last week Tannehill is at fault at least for 2. One is debatable and the other one was on the OL.

This excuse making is becoming almost comical if it would not be that sad.

 

[MRojas4]

Tannehill doesn't trust the O-line?

Guess thats why he holds onto the ball for 5+ seconds?

Progresse through 3 reads, double fake pump, stare down dump off option, sack...... Repeat.