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Sons Of Shula

Sons Of Shula

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1) Deep ball schmeep ball. STFU. SO ****ing overblown. I'm sick to my stomach at the ignorance displayed at those coming in with torches and pitchforks demanding bull **** bombs for absolutely no reason other than so you can go jerk off to some top 10 useless ****ing BSPN highlight clip. It's an asset, not a necessity. And no, Tannehill doesn't need to become some master of the deep ball to be a top tier QB or even take pointless shots down the field to "keep defense's honest". What a crock of **** that line of thinking is. But I'll get into that next.

Which brings me to:

2) Don't like the short to intermediate passing game? Take a hike and follow another sport you pea-brained inbred wanna-be jockeys. Or, wise the **** up; go get some real football books; give yourself a god damn education about the game of football. For a modern approach, study the innovative genius of Bill Walsh and move on down his coaching tree. Speaking of, let's see here; Bill Walsh --> Paul Hacket --> Mike McCarthy --> Oh, hot damn, what do you know... Joe Philbin. That's right bitches our own Joe is a descendant of the Bill Walsh coaching tree which holds the names of some of the NFL's most successful HC's around. But guess what? **** takes time folks. Unfortunately for the instant gratification generation there's no such thing as a 2 minute microwavable super bowl hot pocket. Stick to your daily fantasy football games that are full of rainbows and unicorns if that's your impatient way of life.

And finally:

3) Bashing an intelligent, strong-armed, accurate passer (yes, Tannehill) is about as bright as sticking your dick in a moving blender. But again, if that's your thing, enjoy your penis shakes, ladies.


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No, no, no!!! SoS . . . you must let it ALL out!!!! :sarcon: :hi5:

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Yeah, I don't recall everyone getting so bent about Montana not throwing deep. Of course, both Rice and Taylor could turn a 7 yard crossing routed into a 60 yard TD any time.
 
Mudder1310 said:
Yeah, I don't recall everyone getting so bent about Montana not throwing deep. Of course, both Rice and Taylor could turn a 7 yard crossing routed into a 60 yard TD any time.
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Maybe it's because there was nothing to get bent out of shape about.

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Geforce said:
Maybe it's because there was nothing to get bent out of shape about.

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Jerry Rice ran a lot more drag routes than anyone would care to admit. The 49ers thrived off it. And this is exactly what I mean when I said all people want is ****ing highlight clip. Not to mention, Wallace would run a lazy route here and drops the damn ball.
 
Sons of Shula said:
Jerry Rice ran a lot more drag routes than anyone would care to admit. The 49ers thrived off it. And this is exactly what I mean when I said all people want is ****ing highlight clip. Not to mention, Wallace would run a lazy route here and drops the damn ball.
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Everyone doesn't want a freaking highlight clip. Some of us want to see the offense we heard about all off-season. We want to see the fast paced big play offense Bill Lazor and others talked about not this scaled down version.

If some people was as critical of Tannehill as they are of other players...
 
But, if you want to try to have some serious discussion in here, there are serious problems with the way our offense was called on Monday night, and if we don't get them fixed for Baltimore, we are not going to win.

1. We had 21 called pass plays in the first half to 3 run plays. That's awful, that's a worse ratio than the Jets had the other way around, and it's a recipe for failure. When you call a pass play, your linemen drop back and allow the opposing defensive line to attack. When you allow the opposing defensive line to attack all the time, you are giving them the initiative. You are giving them the advantage. If you are going to call a 0 yard pass out in the flat, or a 3 yard crosser, you would be much better off calling an inside run and allowing our offensive line to get up there and knock some defensive linemen and linebackers on their butts. Hit them. Get the initiative back.

2. Depth and spacing of pass routes in this offense is often terrible. If you look at the routes being run, you will often see 2-3 receivers 'holding hands' about 3-4 yards from the line of scrimmage on very shallow crossing patterns. I'm not sure if the intention here is to create some legal picks against man coverage or what, but the fact is that it wasn't working against the Jets' zone coverage and it is the reason why Ryan Tannehill kept throwing a lot of pointless four yard passes. I get that we are struggling to pass protect at times, and that our offense is predicated on the quarterback making good decisions and throwing accurate short passes to create YAC. I get that. But the depth of these routes is awful. One yard, three yards, or four yards. That's not going to get it done when the defense knows its coming.

3. Ryan Tannehill has not had much success throwing the deep ball in Miami, but he HAS had a lot of success throwing intermediate passes. He has a good arm and he can sling the ball 10-20 yards downfield very accurately. You saw it on the last drive on Monday night, it won us the game. We need a LOT more passes designed to challenge opposing defenses 10 to 20 yards downfield. The QB can handle it. He will thrive with it.

4. Tempo. Tempo. Tempo. Our offense has looked good running the hurry-up during the last two seasons. When we play with tempo, we play with poise. It keeps opposing DCs from being able to match up with us and call defenses to stop what we're doing. And yet, we don't do it and we apparently don't even want to do it. In fact, I don't even know why I mentioned this, because we all know at this point that they just aren't going to even try mixing in some no huddle.


What concerns me right now is that we've seen a lot of these same issues all season. I complained a lot about all of these points early in the season when our offense struggled against Buffalo and KC. They were all valid complaints then, and still are. What we've seen over the 8 week stretch in between KC and the Jets is that our quarterback pretty consistently executed at a high level of play and was able to make it work. But I got to be honest with you, Baltimore could give us fits if they're ready to sit on it.
 
Geforce said:
Everyone doesn't want a freaking highlight clip. Some of us want to see the offense we heard about all off-season. We want to see the fast paced big play offense Bill Lazor and others talked about not this scaled down version.

If some people was as critical of Tannehill as they are of other players...
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The kind of offense you are referring to takes time to build. You heard about it because that is what we are building toward. It's an important part of the vision our coaches want to implement. No one promised it would be ready after Philbin or Lazer waved his magic wand.

Cheer up. There will be incremental improvement along the way as we continue to:

- develop our QB
- draft and trade for players that fit this offense and philosophy
- stick to our principles and vision and NOT try to go for costly quick fixes for the sake of single seasons
- avoid trying to play schemes we aren't ready for yet. When we ARE ready, we blow the NFL away with them.
- work toward a perennial playoff team that isn't there to just make noise, but to take it all
- become an organization/system that is the envy of every other team in the NFL

All of these things are on the horizon if you can just see the forest for the trees.
 
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