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Another point of view of the much debated issue this off-season.
One of the most asked questions of this Dolphins off-season has been one of the most difficult to answer: When will Ryan Tannehill be the Dolphins’ starting quarterback?

It’s a reasonable question. When a team invests the eighth overall pick in a player, fans expect him to play.

And if Miami would have selected a wide receiver or a guard or a linebacker with their first round pick, you can almost be assured that he would be all but penciled in atop the depth chart.

Quarterback, though, is different.
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If you want more recent examples, in the past five years 13 quarterbacks have been drafted in the first round but just six of them have been their team’s Week 1 starter and of those six, three were number-one overall selections (JaMarcus Russell was also taken #1 overall, but Josh McCown was Oakland’s Week 1 starter in 2007 after Russell’s hold out carried into the regular season).

When you look at the guys who did start right away, one thing becomes clear: they were set up to play right away. What I mean is that they weren’t presented with a huge battle for the starting job. Here are the six guys who started right away and who the other QBs to appear in the preseason were during their rookie seasons:

2011: Cam Newton (Jimmy Clausen, Derek Anderson)

2010: Sam Bradford (Keith Null, AJ Feely, Thaddeus Lewis)

2009: Matthew Stafford (Drew Stanton, Daunte Cullpepper, Brooks Bollinger)

2009: Mark Sanchez (Erick Ainge, Kellen Clemens)

2008: Matt Ryan (Joey Harrington, DJ Shockley, Chris Redman)

2008: Joe Flacco (Kyle Boller, Troy Smith, Casey Bramlett)

Tannehill, who will be competing with the likes of veterans Matt Moore and David Garrard this preseason, doesn’t seem to fit this list. He’s a rookie who is coming in with a heck of a fight in front of him, part of the reason why many fans and media consider him a dark horse in this race.
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http://thefinsiders.com/blog/2012/when-is-the-time-for-tannehill
 
Moore and Garrard are better than all of those guys (the backups, not the rookies). Maybe Joe R would have something to say about Bramlett, but other than that, yeah, their competition sucked.
 
No one knows ... even expert opinions often prove wrong.

We'll just have to see how he does.
 
I have no trouble with Tannehill riding the pine for a season. None. Tom Brady was drafted in 2000 and threw THREE passes his rookie season. Aaron Rodgers was drafted in 2005 and threw 16, 15 and 28 until he took the reigns full time in 2008. Lets give the kid some - time I dont care what round he was chosen in and what the "experts" around here feel should happen with the eighth pick in the draft...
 
No rush for him to play. But when it is let him get his feet wet a little before he becomes the starter. If he looks like he can be a starter then start him from that point forward.
 
I think it's highly likely he will be in there at some point this year.

The timing will hinge on two things, his adjustment to the speed of the game, and results of the team without him on the field.

I see a shaky season with the adjustment to a new system and head coaching philosophy. So, I like the odds of Tannehill starting anywhere from week 9 on.

I could see this team at 2-6 or 3-5 by then, and a week 9 matchup against Andrew Luck and the soft Colt defense...perfect situation for Tannehill to enter into.

He starts the second half of the season and is ready for 2013.
 
I'm no psychic, but I think it will depend on who wins the starting job.

If Garrard wins, I hope he stays healthy don't get me wrong, but considering his age & his history I could see Tannehil starting if Garrard goes down in the 2nd half of this season.

If Moore wins I would expect them to put Tannehil on hold until next season.
 
Your right next year ifs the best solution he could learn alot go dolphins!!!!
 
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