"Lets just say theres no way Henne goes up to Pitt and puts up 34 points in the snow with the playoffs on the line." Not in a meaningful game. That's part of the difference. Tannehill has shown, to an extent, that he can make plays when they have to be made, not just for that game, but in the context of a whole season. Jax hasn't played a meaningful game since September.
Henne is perfect for the role he's in now. Starting QB for a team going nowhere, where losses are better than wins because a high draft pick is the best reward.
Henne's career, IMO, is defined by that game against Cleveland in 2011, when Miami was down by 1 poiint (I think) and we had just gotten a fabulous runback on the kickoff to get us to midfield with, like, 50-some seconds left, and Henne threw 4 straight incompletions, none of them even close. Then, I think it was the week after we got knocked out of the game in San Diego and that was the end of his Dolphins career. (though it might have been more than a week after). We thought for sure that that game vs Cleveland was the must win game among the gauntlet of tough early games that season.
Ironically, though, Tanny did have a similar situation this year in that game against Baltimore, but I don't remember any of those 4 plays (when we got to midfield after Tanny's sick, amazing pass on 4th and 10 where Brandon Gibson fell down without contact on a pass that hit him perfectly in stride). I think if Tannehill would've been as ready to run and escape the pocket at that point as he is now, he could've possibly done that in that situation and avoided the sack on 3rd down (after spiking the ball on 1st down) that created yet another 4th and 10+ yards.
The growth in Tannehill this season, from protecting the football to escaping the pocket and avoiding sacks that would've got him in the early part of the season, is wonderful.
