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Tua time!
Yes. Feel free to go through the tape game by game with me if you want. I wouldn’t be saying this if it didn’t happen on tape.
It’s odd to me that it seems like this offense has more opportunity to make plays without Tannehill than with but if that’s what the tape tells me I’m gonna roll with it.
The protection or o line play period has never been as good as it was vs the bears. Tanny and Brock in that one I think would have executed at a similar clip. Vs the lions zero doubt tanny doesn’t check down every pa vertical shot opportunity we had or throw the ball on the 5th row every time he was flushed. Now make up for Ricky jean Francois whooping Jesse marginal to date Davis 2 times off the call for sacks no tanny takes those sacks too.
Vs Houston tanny doesn’t play that level. Sure he takes the sack when watt murders James in the first half but we ran the ball with success and we had plenty of opportunities to make plays in the passing game and Brock played like Brock plays over and over.
You want to start with week 1? Tanny made two mistakes one an underthrown fade route to gesicki which he said slipped out of his hand and the other a deep post route where grant quit on the route and curled inside.
Vs the jets Miami had problems with that front most of the game. I’m not gonna sit here and tell you that tanny doesn’t need solid o line play he does. But you don’t get rid of a qb cause the o line can’t do its job unless the qb is holding you back. Period. We ran zone read out the nose cause we couldn’t run the ball to save our lives vs that front any other way.
Vs the raiders we played a half of too conservative play calling and yes in the second half tanny benefited from some speed guys making perimeter field plays from the backfield. The entire league uses those plays by the way.
Vs the patriots entire team got whooped. No show. Yep Ryan takes his share of it. O line play was poor couldn’t run the ball. Meet me at the qb.
Vs cinci we played really solid ball til the wheels fell off late 3rd quarter. Starts with max protect failure up front snow balls on a attempted dump to avoid the sack to the tight end bad bounce. But before that geno Atkins released multiple times to the qb untouched basically. Second half we lost tunsil and wheels came off.
On 3rd and 17 mind you chasing scoreboard and clock running out he gets flushed forward tries to throw a deep ball again chasing sticks and de hits his arm fumble td game over. It happens folks. It sucks and all but it happens to all of them. Not the injury but the hit on the throwing arm in the motion and the fumble.
Anyways I think there’s two take away here. Solid o line play matters for Ryan Tannehill just like it matters for any pre snap and progression read based qb. If we don’t get it he has rough days.
The improv side of things in terms of the pure player aspect is probably his biggest weakness. He’s a highly script qb
I can win with a script qb as long as he executes the ask and doesn’t lose games for me with his play.
Brock’s gonna lose you more games than he does anything else. But that’s irrelevant he’s a place holder today.
Now if you want to replace tanny because of the medical of late I can’t argue that one. And if he’s doesn’t play the rest of the way or stay healthy once he does come back I think the odds of Miami moving on despite the cap hit this offseason shift closer to 50/50.
