You mean young players like Tannehill, Miller, Landry, Ju'Wuan James, Sims, Vernon, and Shelby? And I suppose we can add Fede, Aikens and Hazel to the list this year.
Haters gonna hate.
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Now that's a guy I would look at...would definitely like to see him tried out at Guard as well as backup center.
Please don't act like Philbin "developed" Lamar Miller when he has done everything he could not to get him the ball, and even had Ryan Tannehill pass the ball at a 70/30 ratio in games where Miller was averaging more per carry than Tannehill was per pass (KC last year). Miller developed in spite of Philbin, not because of him.
As for Tannehill, he has turned into a guy who looks very good and has great stats, and in three years of development has managed to win one more game than he did as a rookie, and shows an inability to convert good play into wins often enough to be a top QB so far. I think another coach can make him a winner and maybe Philbin, but he sure as hell hasn't yet. Obviously Tannehill has been brought along better than RGIII and he clearly has learned a heck of a lot about the game from the staff. But both this staff and this QB have left too many games we played well in turn into losses. Games where we had the ball and we had the ability to seal a victory, we have lost half or more. I have my doubts that the staff can teach a QB how to win a close one regularly because they don't know themselves.
Landry was the package he came in as, can't fault the staff there but he was extremely polished coming out of college and was only a second rounder because physically his upside isn't as dynamic as the guys drafted there last year.
Sims is a backup TE who is solid. Home run there.
James you really can't say much. He was a first rounder and has been solid, like Landry I'm not sure much necessarily needed developing.
They have done a good developing guys job on the defensive line. I can't fault them for that. It's a strength of our staff but it doesn't mean they don't have weaknesses.
I've seen players come in here though that the staff doesn't seem to make better, they just make worse, and its mostly in the secondary. Sure, you can act like Will Davis never had talent, but what about Vontae? It's also plenty obvious that Dion Jordan has self destructed, but it's a bit confusing how a guy who had obvious pass rush skills as a rookie but some big deficiencies elsewhere didn't even improve his deficiencies, and also somehow lost his skill.
