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NFL QB's with FEWER College Starts than Tannehill

SeanSmith24 said:
i dont know what football youve been watching but flacco is a good qb, not elite not hall of fame but his pretty good, hes gotten 3,000 yards passing every year since hes been in the league with double digits td


stats dont lie
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Stats most definitely do lie. Baltimore has a great defense and a strong running game: a QBs dream. Flacco doing well and not much more in that context is not impressive.
 
roy_miami said:
Why are people always using Cutler as an example that college win/loss records are meaninless? He has a 41-37 record in the NFL and has one playoff win in his career. He has two seasons over .500. If anything he's an example that college win/loss records ARE important.
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LikeUntoGod said:
I was only looking at his last season where we won 6 games. The season before he also won 6 games, I'm not 100% sure where he got the 13th.
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He won his last game, the Meineke Car Care Bowl against Northwestern.

Edit: Ah, I see you realized this after you posted it.
 
ive said it before, say it again, it does not matter neccessarily what one accomplished in college stat wise. Currently and stud and national champion in Vince Young is now a back up and soon to run out of NFL.

T-hill straight up has the intelligence, knowledge, leadership skills, and talents to make it in the NFL. He only has to work at it and then work at it, and then work at it some more! You have to put your time in and see your mistakes and improve on them and learn what it is that you read on other teams in order to plan it, rehearse it, and win it consistently. What he did in college is only a transcript now.

Besides, he played against LSU, Alabama, Oklohoma st., Oklahoma, Texas, ect. He played against the best.
 
TheWalrus said:
Do you even bother to think about **** before you post it? Tannehill won 13 games.

Sanchez won 14. Cam Newton won 14. Flynn won 10. Flacco doesn't count because he started 26 games at Delaware.

Here's this for a thought experiment, big guy. I'll give you the win loss records of four quarterbacks their last three years in college, you tell me which one you want.


Quarterback A: 33-14
Quarterback B: 40-9
Quarterback C: 11-34

Quarterback A is Chad Henne. Quarterback B is none other than Pat White.

Quarterback C? Jay Cutler.

Just for ****s and giggles, here's one more. He led his team to only one winning season and compiled a 15-18 record his last three years in college. His name?

John Elway.
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Pretty sure Phil Simms won less than 25% of his starts at Morehead State and Kentucky was not a top SEC team when Tim Couch was there. What does it mean?

Absolutley nothing like the rest of the similarities thrown out there. Until Ryan Tannehill plays in the NFL and adjusts to the speed we won't know what he will be. Keep your fingers crossed.
 
Surprised not to see Brady on that list. I thought he didn't start until his senior year and then split reps with Drew Henson.
 
yeah, bottom line is, no one really knows if a QB will bust or not. tom brady was a complete unknown, looked as pedestrian as you can be at the combine, 6th round pick, etc... hall of famer out of nowhere.
 
IMO having been a successful receiver is an advantage for T-hill which we routinely undervalue. While I don't believe it's too helpful in overcoming a mediocre talent level, for someone like Ryan, understanding how his receivers run routes and having foreknowledge of many of the routes they actually will be running has to afford him some sort of a leg up in the honing of his timing and anticipation skills. When discussing his relative inexperience, IMO his actually having been there and done what the guys he's now throwing to will be doing, will help to offset the relative experience shortfall.


 
Only time will tell...Im actually praying that Tannehill works out...I'll bet that we ALL are praying that he will...front office and owner too!!!
 
It is a little silly to think that college stats do not matter.

Would you take the linebacker that has 3 tackles or the one that has 374?

Some players are able to progress to the NFL and some are not. Some have maxed out in college and others have room to grow and improve. Stats are a useful tool but more important is figuring out if a player's skills can translate to the NFL.

The problems with figuring this out is why you see players drafted really high that are total bust in the NFL.
 
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