I'm not sure what you mean. What did Jeff Ireland do that puts Ryan Tannehill in a perfect situation? Can you be specific?
Looks to me like....
He signed the best available free agent QB last year (Matt Moore) to compete with Chad Henne... despite calls from the peanut gallery to waste draft picks and 9+ mil per season on Kyle Orton. (The only possible argument against this would be Matt Hasselbeck, and despite having over 150 fewer attempts... Moore's numbers are comparable or BETTER than Hasselbeck's in nearly everything but total number of yards - including TD/INT ratio, and overall QB rating. And thats before you even get to the point that Moore is nearly 10 years younger than Hasselbeck) As mentioned... it could have been draft picks and 10 million per year contracts for the likes of Orton or Kevin Kolb.
He signed another solid veteran QB this year, to compete with Moore and Tannehill (David Garrard) whose last year in the league was a Pro Bowl effort... and who most seem to think is leading the QB competition now.
He didn't panic and trade up to draft Tannehill last April (a move that could only have increased the pressure on Tannehill to start immediately - via perceptions of highly drafted prospects, not to mention waste picks desperately needed for other areas)... and he didn't try to get cute with trading down before selecting him (and risk losing the player), despite calls from the peanut gallery for both.
So... Tannehill finds himself as a rookie in a three way battle... competing against, and learning from QB's with a combined 14 years of playing experience in the league.... running 80 to 85% of the same offense he ran for four years in college... and despite being drafted in the top 10 - facing little to no pressure to start immediately, due to two experienced veterans on roster - and able to play when the coaches feel he's ready.
Is Ireland credited with all of that? No. But he's certainly not unrelated to a lot of it. Is that perfect? No... the only thing perfect in the NFL ended in 1972. lol I wouldn't call it perfect... but it's something. It's different than Andrew Luck - who will start from day 1 with a pretty darn bad team, and an o-line most resembling swiss cheese. It's different than RGIII, who will start from day 1... and was the most talented Redskins QB before Goodell even finished speaking his name last April. (Tannehill would have been as well, had Washington selected him.)
So should Ireland be credited with creating a "perfect situation" for Tannehill? As stated earlier... no. Neither should he receive no credit for a situation substantially different than any other 1st round rookie QB will face either, IMHO.
On a tangentially related (in that it deals with assigning blame/credit to Jeff Ireland) question I posed you yesterday...
Regarding your characterization of other posters repeating an assertion I've read in several mainstream media reports (that Dolphins "cap guru" Dawn Aponte, is insisting on offset language in Ryan Tannehills rookie contract)... you stated that to do so, was "just another way to avoid blaming Jeff Ireland for anything bad."
I asked if (hypothetically) someone tweeted out the complete rank speculation that Joe Philbin was desperate to sign Matt Flynn this off season, BUT that Jeff Ireland had intentionally "sabotaged" the contract talks/offer... as if it were a bald fact... <--- a conspiracy theory directly contradicted by Steve Ross in easily referenced quotes. Would that be the opposite of your characterization? <-- Namely, seeking to assign blame to Jeff Ireland, where's its unclear any exists... and what evidence does exist - directly contradicts assigning that blame?
