Here’s an oldie but a goodie. Now as this is from 2014 it will be easy to pick apart. But I’m pretty sure you will pick it apart regardless.
http://grantland.com/features/the-question-of-ryan-tannehill/
Not a bad article on a second year QB.
Like many young quarterbacks, he’s inconsistent from week to week in terms of how he reads the field and the mistakes he makes in doing so, although the extremes with Tannehill seem to be a little higher than they are with, say, a Russell Wilson.
More than anything else, it was Tannehill’s head that had to make the biggest leap coming from Texas A&M to the pros. That’s not because Tannehill’s an unintelligent person — he carried a 3.6 GPA in biology through his first three years at Texas A&M — but because he was such an inexperienced quarterback.
That likely owes something to Tannehill being stuck behind the league’s worst offensive line last season, as he was sacked a league-high 58 times and knocked down, per the newly released Football Outsiders Almanac 2014, 101 times.
With a better line, maybe Tannehill gets more time at the end of his drop to cycle through his options and make a safe throw, but he obviously didn’t have that going for him with Miami last season.
That is your scathing indictment? "Like many young QBs" "seem to be a little higher than Russell Wilson"? Tannehill was playing with limited experience behind a crappy OL with terrible coaching (Sherman was just fired), and no running game.
And, you have to go back to the 2013 season to find it? Ha, ha, ha.....
Thank you for confirming what I suspected. Most of the criticism of Tannehill are regurgitations of OLD criticisms that no longer apply.
Got anything else?
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