If a pictures worth a thousand words…

[LDaniel7]

A person who looks at that pic thinking Clay is "wide open" obviously is um, er -- well, probably more on Madden than real football.

Clay is not sitting down. He his running a drag route right into the LB. If Tannehill throws to where Clay IS, he will throw behind him badly, into the middle of the field. Tipped ball. Maybe INT.

IF Tannehill throws to where Clay is going, he throws him into the LB. Big collision. Again, maybe tipped ball. Best case scenario: contested catch for 4-5 yards.

Third factor: Tannehill has maybe a second, probably less, before he gets plastered. So in a split second he takes the better of two bad choices.

Anyone who can't see such stuff probably hates Tannehill, and probably thinks his WRs (other than Wallace) are all winning their battles, and that Miami has great downfield TEs.

LD

 

[Fins1971]

Clay is open if Tannehill had thrown the ball about a second before that picture. RT17 holds the ball to long.

 

[J. David Wannyheimer]

Here's my thousand:

I was told that this drop was on the QB.

 

[Xbrett82us]

Here's my thousand:

I was told that this drop was on the QB.

Freaking Gibson. Been useless this season. Landry has already surpassed him.

 

[dolpns13]

I made the 5 hour drive to the game yesterday, and was witness to numerous examples of this, but I happened to capture one of them and figured it was worth sharing. I'd be curious to review this on TV but it wasn't televised here (Brooksville, FL) so I couldn't record it. I'll catch some of the rewind tonight on NFL Network, anyway, there were MANY times in the game where I saw a receiver wide open that Tannehill would completely ignore in favor of targeting Wallace, once there were even two open receivers near the end zone, but I think this pic really captures it.

Here Charles Clay is wide open right in front of Tannehill with room to run, but instead he elects to throw a terrible pass behind Wallace (if I recall correctly, might've been Hartline) which of course resulted in an incompletion. Not that this is a revelation to anyone here, but I thought seeing it from this angle might really help to show just how obvious it is to everyone (except our front office).

At this moment, the ball should have actually been out of Tannehills hand and Clay should have been running with it.

 

[maralieus]

Throw to clay? No. He's not open. 90 is waiting for him. Tuck it and run?? Yes. Yes. And wtf tannehill! Run it man.

 

[tay0365]

There was another play on 3rd and short where Daniel Thomas was wide open in the flat and Tannehill throws downfield into coverage. He has NO VISION!!!

And if he throws to Thomas and he drops it (With all the drops that occurred...very possible), your question becomes, "Why is he so in accurate and always scared to throw deep?"

 

[DolfanAdam]

I just want to clarify something because I keep seeing comments saying that this pic proves nothing and that Clay should have already had the ball in his hands when this was taken. So just for the record, I wasn't implying that this pic tells the whole story, I agree it probably should've already been released at this point, but what I think this does illustrate is that Clay was in motion (and open). I also saw some comments that basically said Tannehill made the correct decision with pressure coming to his right, but to anyone who thinks that, how did he have the time to attempt hitting a receiver that was 3 times farther away then Clay was, if the sack was so imminent?

 

[dolpns13]

Throw to clay? No. He's not open. 90 is waiting for him. Tuck it and run?? Yes. Yes. And wtf tannehill! Run it man.

Sorry man but youre wrong. Clay was wide open as he was coming into the frame. The second this frame was shot Clay should already have the ball in his hand and turning upfield. If Tannehill ran thats when 90, or someone even closer would have had him.

 

[Chuck-182]

90 is watching waiting to destroy Clay, whom Clay can't see... You can find these types of scenarios for Dan Marino. Its one pic.

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Yeah that's what I see, Clay would've gotten destroyed.

 

[ohall]

I just want to clarify something because I keep seeing comments saying that this pic proves nothing and that Clay should have already had the ball in his hands when this was taken. So just for the record, I wasn't implying that this pic tells the whole story, I agree it probably should've already been released at this point, but what I think this does illustrate is that Clay was in motion (and open). I also saw some comments that basically said Tannehill made the correct decision with pressure coming to his right, but to anyone who thinks that, how did he have the time to attempt hitting a receiver that was 3 times farther away then Clay was, if the sack was so imminent?

What was the down and distance?

 

[J. David Wannyheimer]

I have the all-22 game rewind package and there are definitely 2-3 plays where Tannehill flat out didn't throw the ball to guys who were country mile open. On 1 or maybe 2 of those, I give him a pass as I don't know what his progressions were and if he's going through them as he's supposed to, he is looking to another side of the field.

The one that stuck out was that throw downfield to Wallace where he had Gibson wiiiiiiiiiiide open underneath. I like that the QB was going for the 40 yard play, but IMO he shoulda just taken the easy 10 yards. That one hurt.

 

[FinfanInBuffalo]

I have the all-22 game rewind package and there are definitely 2-3 plays where Tannehill flat out didn't throw the ball to guys who were country mile open. On 1 or maybe 2 of those, I give him a pass as I don't know what his progressions were and if he's going through them as he's supposed to, he is looking to another side of the field.

The one that stuck out was that throw downfield to Wallace where he had Gibson wiiiiiiiiiiide open underneath. I like that the QB was going for the 40 yard play, but IMO he shoulda just taken the easy 10 yards. That one hurt.

We have the fewest number of plays where the first or second look is wide open of any team I have seen this season.

 

[FinfanInBuffalo]

Here's my thousand:

I was told that this drop was on the QB.

This one was brutal. Should have been 1st and 10 inside the 20. Instead we miss a FG. Predictably, KC turns the field position into a TD drive. We give up a sack and go 4 and out on the next drive. KC then drives for another long TD and a game we should be winning is suddenly 14-0.

 

[Phinatic8u]

Sorry man but youre wrong. Clay was wide open as he was coming into the frame. The second this frame was shot Clay should already have the ball in his hand and turning upfield. If Tannehill ran thats when 90, or someone even closer would have had him.

You do realize he was still in his drop right?

Jesus. Man. ****.