what he throw for in that game 200 yards??? he was solid that day but other than two backside sacks late by a washed up osi and folks osi as a win pass rusher minus schematics is washed up he had a clean pocket all game long...the read op gives you in breaking routes with one on one looks all over the place...you surprised atlanta with it and your oc had a very good schematic gameplan...
as for tannehill not ever playing better tanny showed more in that zona game last year against blitz pressure and heavy pressure at that than smith ever has...and tanny also was one of the league leaders in under pressure efficiency as a rookie...
not to mention he's top level as a 3rd down conversion qb in 2013 with zero running game and a gaping wound oline...top level red zone td efficiency without many win red zone options and lacking a wr that he can even throw a fade to when he gets down there
this year tannehills played 4 at worst very solid games...been a victim of poor oline play and dropped balls...lead gameclinching td drives vs cleveland and gamewinning td drives against indy and the falcons...
yes the pocket management needs to get better mainly climbing the pocket but if he had as clean looks as geno did vs atl tannehill would have shredded em...
you would think better of him if he threw for 400 and threw 2 key INTs like Ryan at Arizona last year?
One of those sacks looked like his fault, the other Brick made the mistake- it appeared.
He threw away that Arizona game and your WR had a million yds after the catch on some busted coverages.
Miller is averaging 4.2 YPC, Powell 4.1. where is this great run game that we have?
I am not debating who is better right now, Ryan is better and should be w/ a years experience and vastly superior weapons. Geno's Atl game was better than any game Ryan has played and it's not really close.
Geno Smith is not close to Ryan Tannehill. His accuracy is worse than Sanchez'. A more equal comparison at this point is Smith and Manual.
Clearly you haven't watched him.
Smith and manuel are a good comparison, both rookies showing they have the ability to play in this league but both still have a lot to prove.