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Sunday Buzz: Four former GMs' view of Dolphins

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With the Dolphins' most pivotal game of the season looming on Sunday, we asked four former NFL general managers still involved in the game (Charley Casserly, Bill Polian, Mark Dominik and Ken Herock) to assess the team.

Some of their thoughts:

### Quarterback Ryan Tannehill: Despite the improvement, the evaluators were measured in their praise. Casserly: “I like the progression. The ball is coming out quickly, and they’re doing what he does best. He can be an above average NFL starter and he’s good enough to take them to the playoffs. Do I see the upside of Aaron Rodgers? No, I don’t. But I see a guy that can give you some consistency. He needs to master the deep throw to take another step.” (Tannehill is 8 for 34 on balls thrown 20 yards or more, compared with 16 of 41 for Baltimore’s Joe Flacco, who visits Sunday)…

Dominik: “He’s above average to a little better than that. He can lead a team to the playoffs. What I think is happening with him is the more they’re surrounding him with weapons, the more effective he’s becoming. [Becoming] a top 10 quarterback isn’t too ambitious. He’s got the makeup and leadership. Players respect him.”

Polian: “Tannehill is getting there but he still has a ways to go.”… Though he is eighth in completion percentage, “that’s a misleading stat because anyone can complete short passes,” Herock said. “The intermediate and deep routes, he’s still so inaccurate at times. I think he’ll always be a 7-9, 8-8 quarterback, will be a guy that teases you.”
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Holy, you mean these guys think he needs to be better at the deep ball to take the next step in the qb latter???? Holy, don't tell that to some of the guys around here... they will tell you the deep ball is over rated... smh
 
Although I don't think there will ever be another Rodgers. I hate when people say that.

Rodgers sat for 4 years. 4 ****ing years, nobody knew what he was gonna be.
 
we got 2 immediate ballers from Hickey, don't give 2 ****s otherwise
 
I wonder what would've happened if Tannehill sat behind a hall of fame QB his first 4 years.
 
Aaron Rodgers wished he could be a Ryan Tannehill at this stage in Rodgers' career.

And Aaron Rodgers wasn't even *Aaron Rodgers* until what, his 7th season in the league?

RT is light years ahead of Rodgers at his point -- without a real OL and playoff caliber weapons across the board.

Idiocy is contagious, it seems.

LD
 
The good thing is evaluators are still hopeful for the kid and believe he can improve. He has not reached his ceiling. I believe that as well.
 
I think he’ll always be a 7-9, 8-8 quarterback, will be a guy that teases you.”
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We better not finish 8-8 again this year. If we do its going to be another long ten years for us Dolphin fans.
 
Bill Polian's QB track record:

*When he was running the Panthers in 1995, he traded out of the top spot (and a chance at Steve McNair) for an extra pick and the chance to take Kerry Collins.

*According to NFL Media's Judy Battista, Polian has told Bengals coach Marvin Lewis that he wouldn't be working as an ESPN analyst right now if he had only pulled the trigger on Andy Dalton as Manning's backup three years ago.

*Polian acknowledged that there are concerns about Jones, including his lack of mobility, and he said he doesn’t see a Peyton Manning in this year’s draft. But he thinks if there’s a quarterback who’s going to make an instant impact for an NFL team in 2013, it’s Landry Jones.

*Polian gushed about Johnny Manziel.
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The only reason Polian is worth a damn is because he scored with Peyton Manning. And he apparently would have royally screwed over the Colts the second time around by drafting Andy Dalton early on and not being able to land Luck a few years later.
 
I think it was honest and accurate insight.
 
Excuse my ignorance, but who is Ken Herock? Which team did he run? Was he any good as a GM?
 
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