Should Tannehill attempt to rehab/play or just get surgery already?

[SkapePhin]

It seems like this is the decision they are struggling with...

Option 1: Rest and Rehab for a few weeks and attempt to have RT play

Option 2: Get surgery and come back with no problems in 2018

In your opinion, what should Tannehill do?

 

[MD]

I have limited knowledge on this and its my understanding that at some point he's going to have to get a procedure done. If that's accurate I'd rather he get the knee repaired so he can be 100% in 2018.

 

[GEORGIA FIN]

Reality to me is:

A: Try and play and have a chance of staying a Miami Dolphin but risk your knee.
B: Have surgery, miss the season and basically say goodbye to employment with the Miami Dolphins.

Pretty much sucks for him and us as fans.

 

[tommyp]

what's the latest he could have surgery and still be ready for sept 2018 ???

 

[Notso]

what's the latest he could have surgery and still be ready for sept 2018 ???

This... why rush? See if it's good after the 6-8 weeks, if it is he can have the procedure after the season and be ready for next year? Is that enough recovery time? Honestly I have no idea

 

[SkapePhin]

Reality to me is:

A: Try and play and have a chance of staying a Miami Dolphin but risk your knee.
B: Have surgery, miss the season and basically say goodbye to employment with the Miami Dolphins.

Pretty much sucks for him and us as fans.

I don't think surgery means the end of his Dolphins career at all. Gase likes him. He is still under contract. He will have 2018 for sure. Doesn't mean he won't have competition, but there is still a strong possibility that he is the starter in 2018 after surgery.

 

[warren4prez]

This... why rush? See if it's good after the 6-8 weeks, if it is he can have the procedure after the season and be ready for next year? Is that enough recovery time? Honestly I have no idea

His knee will always be an issue! It then becomes a time bomb for real. Get the procedure done!

 

[Michael Scott]

He should have the surgery now just like he should have had it in the first place. Let's say he rehab and plays.... Then tears his ACL in November. What's the time table then? Yeah, he'd basically get cut as soon as the offseason begins and we'd be in an even worse position than we're in now.

This team isn't winning the SB with or without Tannehill this season. It isn't worth the risk of having an injury that needs surgery creep into the 2018 season in terms of recovery.

It sucks. I was hard on Tannehill earlier in his career, but he really grew on me and I was hopeful of a Pro Bowl caliber season for him this year. But hey.... This is the situation we're in right now, and we've got to do what's best for the future.

 

[GEORGIA FIN]

I don't think surgery means the end of his Dolphins career at all. Gase likes him. He is still under contract. He will have 2018 for sure. Doesn't mean he won't have competition, but there is still a strong possibility that he is the starter in 2018 after surgery.

At this point anything is possible, but I dont know if they will stick with him.

 

[THE OG CANEPHINS]

This thread should be merged with the other Tannehill surgery thread.

 

[SkapePhin]

This thread should be merged with the other Tannehill surgery thread.

I created both, I just thought this was a good poll question which is why I created it separately. Its a bit of a different question.

 

[Travis34]

I don't think surgery means the end of his Dolphins career at all. Gase likes him. He is still under contract. He will have 2018 for sure. Doesn't mean he won't have competition, but there is still a strong possibility that he is the starter in 2018 after surgery.

Yep. No way we just cut him. But I'm on the fence... I want to see him play this year, but I really don't want him to get hurt further... surgery would be better for the long run... but idk... leaning towards getting it done

 

[FinaticalFinfan]

I don't think surgery means the end of his Dolphins career at all. Gase likes him. He is still under contract. He will have 2018 for sure. Doesn't mean he won't have competition, but there is still a strong possibility that he is the starter in 2018 after surgery.

Yeah, that's a question that had me baffled...why do some think if he has surgery, he'd no longer have a chance to still continue his career with the fins?

 

[DuderinoN703]

Opt for surgery. Rehabbing it didn't work the first time. If he plays this year in 2 months and he gets hurt then, that'll put him out for a year and he'd miss almost half the next season.

 

[raving]

Tannehill cannot play on that knee.

I am king of told you so - but the day he got hurt I said he won't be back for a year - now its 18 to 20 months.

He did the right thing not getting the surgery, I would too if some physicians told me there was a chance of not ever needing it, and I could move on with my QB career with a young upstart team.

But as sad as this is to me as a die-hard fan who has always thought that Tannehill was WAYYY better then the results of the pathetic coaches and teams he played for - HE NEEDS to go under the knife.

Surgeries on the knee as such will be considered obsolete and primitive in
10 to 15 years - seems like stem cell and tapping into regenerative processes in the body will take advances in this realm....but we are not there yet so sadly Tannehill must go through the long painful process of surgery and rehab...I hate this for him and our team....

All of that said lets see what Matt Moore can do for us. Give him a training camp, a much more developed and solid team to play around him, and he may surprise us ALL! I am dreaming - because I can!!!