ESPN Film Room: Mike Wallace

[juniorseau55]

I don't know why people have to deny the obvious. Tannehill did not get enough experience as a quarterback in college but that is not the problem at all. Some balls are just not being delivered properly. I mean the video shows a good ole play that we often see where the deep ball ends up being a shallow pass short from arriving at where it needs to in order for the play to be made. If it weren't for Moreno we wouldn;t' have won that game on week 1.

 

[Geforce]

Tannehill Changing How He Attacks Deep Throws

I don't know if this applies to Wallace but a great line for some of the faster WRs is "if he's even, he's leavin'." Maybe Tannehill is waiting that split second to make sure he's wide open before pulling the trigger screwing up the timing, whereas he should just throw it if he's sees them running side by side. Throw him open.

Maybe we'd even get a few PIs out of the deal. Its amazing Wallace only has one PI called against him and maybe no holding penalties with as open as he gets. The one PI was probably the best throw Tannehill made to him but the DB tackled him, it came in OT during the Bengals game. That was the one time the throw was perfect. Would Wallace have made the catch? Who knows. Brutal they got robbed of it though, that might have kept a lot of people off their backs, for a while at least.

Perhaps something Tannehill said last season can shed some light on his lack of deep ball connection with Wallace.

"We talked to coach Philbin yesterday and that’s one of the things he told me," Tannehill said. "Just go out there and let it rip. When a guy gets that open, sometimes you kind of tense up and you don’t want to overthrow him so you end up underthrowing him. I just have to go out there and let it rip and not overplay it."

"Yes, I think I just get conservative," Tannehill admitted. "You see a guy, like I said with so much space and separation between him and the defender, he had five yards or something on the guy. You see that space and you're thinking just get him the ball. Instead of, just throw it out there, play football and let it rip."

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...hill-changing-how-he-attacks-deep-throws.html

 

[roy_miami]

I just think the ball should be gone long before you even get to see him so wide open. Ideally the ball should be arriving at the receiver while he's still creating separation. So if Tannehill is working on being "less tense" when he sees a guy wide open then he's working on the wrong thing to begin with. He needs to learn how to anticipate when Wallace is en route to being wide open.