I mean I never was fully on board with him, but that isn’t the issue here.
1. The team had conviction, hell they hired his college HC to be the OC
2. Even at 8th overall, he absolutely was talented enough to go that high and we have seen less qualified and less talented guys go higher than that.
3. Like it or not, he just wasn’t that bad. 2012 they gave him the worst set of weapons in NFL history. Going 8-8 the next 2 seasons for a guy who didn’t have a full college tenure and was showing signs of improvement in different areas is perfectly capable of earning the extension he did.
4. Before his injury, he was absolutely trending up.
The only thing Miami needs to apologize for is not having anything else in the cupboard pre Tannehill injury and definitely post Tannehill injury. And again the restructure was asinine . . . but predictable.
But the drafting of the QB and the extension made sense. Disagreeing on the prospect is natural but the idea and the execution was proper.