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Ryan Tannehill doubled his touchdown passes from 12 to 24 from his rookie year to his second season in 2013.

Is another double-up coming?

"That would be nice," said Tannehill, the Miami Dolphins' third-year quarterback.

Nice and unlikely. It would mean he's special. That would be 48 touchdown passes, the number Dan Marino threw in 1984 -- a number that was an NFL best until Peyton Manning took it down in 2004.

But I do believe Tannehill can get that number over 30. He also needs to cut down on his interceptions after throwing 17 in 2013.

It all starts with a new offense that is designed to help get the ball out of his hands quicker. With Mike Sherman out as offensive coordinator and Bill Lazor in, the offense has more pre-snap movements, which will help the offense dictate to the defense.

"This allows us to create matchups we like and puts pressure on the defense to get lined up right," Tannehill said last week. "It also puts the pressure on them to make the right calls and checks. When you do a lot of shifting and motioning, you make them be up front with their calls. A missed call, and you have a wide-open guy."

Tannehill was sacked 58 times last season, and he was hit a lot more than that. It's hard to complete passes from your back. The line struggled, but there was also talk that Tannehill wasn't great in the pocket.

"We went back and looked at (the sacks), and not a lot of them were from not having good pocket presence," he said. "But this offense is good about getting the ball out quicker."

All of these changes, plus the natural growth in his third season, will make Tannehill better. It has to be that way. There are still many who wonder if he's the long-term answer for the Dolphins.

"I'd take that guy in a minute," said a coordinator from another NFL team. "There's a lot there to work with."
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http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/writer...me-for-tannehill-to-step-up-his-game-in-miami
 
If he threw over 40 TD's I would shave his number into my chest hair and walk around without my shirt at work for a week during a Massachusetts January.
 
I wonder if that unnamed coordinator is with a team based in New York :lol:
 
My only concern is how will this offense adjust once other teams figure out what were doing.......can he not make the mistakes that will kill us.....he if can we will be in this thing just like last yr and I am confident that RT will not repeat the piss poor performance he gave last yr in same situation.
 
Also in that article:

I was wrong about Miami Dolphins tight end Michael Egnew. When he came out of Missouri, I put him on my Better-Than team in 2012, a list of players I liked better than the scouts. The Dolphins cut him Friday, which means they were as wrong about him as I was. It also means the Dolphins are now without a second-round pick (Jonathan Martin) and a third-round pick (Egnew) from the 2012 draft. That's not good.
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The way I see it, RT's rookie year was bringing him up to near the same experience level that the other Qb's taken that year had coming out of college. Now he is about to the point where a second year starting QB would be at. We have to remember he still is raw as a QB and his growth was stumped a little bit by last seasons o-line debacle. I think he will really progress a lot this year. Players typically make a leap during the season, not during the offseason. Once he gets in the groove of week to week in the regular season I really think that tannehill will start to shine. The talent is there, it's just gonna take a little more time before i think we will really start to see his true potential. Just please dolphans don't jump off the bridge if we start out 0-2. This team that we currently have is very young and very raw, consistency is gonna be hard to come by, but when it's firing on all cylinders we should have a really great team.
 
Ryan Tannehill doubled his touchdown passes from 12 to 24 from his rookie year to his second season in 2013.

Is another double-up coming?
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