Tannehill and Pouncey quotes about a disappointing season

[Nawledge]

_Q: What's the No. 1 reason the Dolphins are out of the playoff hunt with three weeks to go?

_Tannehill: "We didn't win enough games."

_Q: Why didn't you win enough games?

_Tannehill: "We didn't score enough points."

Q: Why didn't you score enough points?

_Tannehill: "Because we didn't get in the end zone enough. I can keep going if you want."

Down a score late on third-and-long, Tannehill had Jarvis Landry wide open for a walk-in touchdown. He overthrew him by several feet. The Dolphins punted and wouldn't get the ball again.

"I feel like I had a good game and I missed that last throw," Tannehill said. "That's one I've thought a lot about since then. It's kind of haunted me a little bit, but there is nothing I can do about it now. Just make the throw the next time it pops up."

The next time it pops up in a meaningful situation will be 2016 - a fact that gnaws at Tannehill and most everyone else in the Dolphins locker room.

Like center Mike Pouncey. He has been in the league for five years. He has never been on a team with a winning record.

This year was supposed to be different. Remember all that talk about championships in the summer? Now fans have nothing left but hope for a brighter future.

"You can blame it on a lot of different things," Pouncey said. "I don't know. I think we had very high expectations and we didn't go out there and do what we set our goals as in the offseason, make the playoffs.

"Obviously, we didn't accomplish that. I really don't know what went wrong. Our whole goal was to go to the playoffs, and obviously that's not going to happen now."

When asked what he would tell long-suffering Dolphins fans, a generation of which have no memory of a playoff win, Pouncey responded:

"We are just as disappointed as they are. Obviously, no one sets their goals at the beginning of the season to not make the playoffs or finish average again. I'd tell them to stick with us, it'll get better."

"I care about winning," said Tannehill. "You don't play to throw X amount of touchdowns or X amount of yards. Whatever it takes to win. ...

"I think that you play to win the game," he continued. "You prepare to win the game and ultimately if you're not winning you're not getting it done enough. I think that's what I look at - ways to win and what teams look at. You want to win. You want to be in the playoffs and competing for a Super Bowl."

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[Sirspud]

When has Tannehill had a meaningful situation he didn't fail to execute on. Great chances in 2013 and 2014, blew any chance of the Dolphins being in any good situations at all with completely inept play in almost every game this year when it was actually on the line.

 

[finomenal]

****y Tannehill. The audacity...

 

[jvw]

Yikes, the more he talks to less I like him....

 

[dolphan117]

Good response by him.

What do you want him to say? "Yeah, or FO really is a mess isnt it? And we have really had some coaching issues. Also we just dont have enough good players, I hope half these guys arent here next year. And I would love to have an offensive line that didnt look like it was getting paid to get me killed."