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• One of Adam Gase’s missions, beyond transforming this into a winning organization, was making Ryan Tannehill a better quarterback. And in barely more than half a season, Gase already has done it, with Tannehill obviously also deserving a large share of the credit.
Tannehill’s passer rating has risen from 88.7 last season to 91.3, 16th best among all starters and ahead of, among others, Eli Manning (88.4 entering the Giants’ Monday night game), Jameis Winston (87.5), Carson Palmer (86), Cam Newton (86), Joe Flacco (78.3), Jay Cutler (77.1) and Brock Osweiler (74.1).
Tannehill is averaging a career-high 8.0 yards per attempt, better than his career mark of 7.0.
He’s completing 65.3 percent of his passes, well ahead of his 62.3 career mark.


• During the past four games, he has a passer rating of more than 97 in three of them – 97.4 against Pittsburgh, 99.4 against Buffalo and 130.6 against San Diego --- and has four touchdown passes and no interceptions. That 130.6 against the Chargers was the second-best of his career.
A huge key: He has been sacked only three times in those four games.


• This also speaks well of Gase: Chicago’s Cutler posted a career-high 92.3 rating in his one year with Gase as his offensive coordinator but has slipped to 77.1 this season without Gase.


• Passer rating can be an overrated stat, but this might shock you: According to ProFootballReference.com, Tannehill now ranks 27th in NFL history in career passer rating, among qualifying players, at 85.9.
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The only useless part of that was the final stat - his all-time rating... which doesn't really hold much water. Passer rating is kind of useless, especially when considering against past years. Unless I'm mistaken, Marino's career rating is like 86.5 or something. As much grief as ESPN gets, I think QBR is a pretty good tool.

Anyways, back to Tannehill... even in a "down" year last year he was continuing his improvement. He's improved one part of his game ever season and last year was no different - we saw him start to hit the deep ball with accuracy. This year he is only improving on that and hopefully he starts getting better in the pocket and with his "feel" and awareness.
 
To be honest when the team was 1 and 4 I thought we might be moving on at QB next season. Ryan had had a few good games but i wasn't seeing the lead us to a win guy that we needed. Maybe it took a while for Ryan to get comfortable with Gases offense ? A good OL that protects him and great rushing game was what he needed.
Regardless the guy who we saw Sunday can lead this team to the magic land. Now I want to see that same guy every game going forward.
 
fishfanmiami said:
To be honest when the team was 1 and 4 I thought we might be moving on at QB next season. Ryan had had a few good games but i wasn't seeing the lead us to a win guy that we needed. Maybe it took a while for Ryan to get comfortable with Gases offense ? A good OL that protects him and great rushing game was what he needed.
Regardless the guy who we saw Sunday can lead this team to the magic land. Now I want to see that same guy every game going forward.
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I'm not greedy. Id take the Bills game version of him on most days; yesterday's version on the good days and the Jets game version on the down days...
 
I will take a great coach over a great QB we been missing both for a long time. Love that RT is progressing along with our coaching.
 
Gase gets all the credit. I believe we have found a good one :brewskis:


There will be bumps ahead I'm sure but now i think now this team EXPECTS to win.

That's half the battle
 
It's almost insulting that he actually pointed out Tanny's rating is ahead of Osweiler's. Of course it is!

wow though - 27th in league history passer rating, i would never have guessed that. Tannehill has quietly put together some impressive numbers during his early years - the yards being the big one, up with some impressive names.
 
all that kid needed was competence and not dumpster fire o line play

letting him makes checks and call or verify protections etc should have been a given but not in Miami until gase showed up
 
Gase has rescued the QB, hoops.

He's rescued him from being surrounded by absolute garbage and coached by incompetent buffoons.
 
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