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Tannehill: Converted WR?

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I know we have a lot of other Tannehill threads. His play is very polarizing; reminds me of Trump, people either love him or hate him, but anyway... I keep hearing that he is a WR that was converted to a QB. Is that correct? I thought he was always a QB that played WR for a year or two to be able to get on the field. I don't believe he is the answer for us at QB, but just want this fact cleared up.
 
Tannehill was born in Lubbock, Texas, but grew up in Big Spring, Texas. He attended Big Spring High School, where he played high school football and basketball and ran track. He played 10 games at defensive back his sophomore season. As a junior, he passed for 2,510 yards and rushed for 922 at quarterback. He took his team to the playoffs as a senior, passing for 5,258 yards and rushing for another 617. He had to miss two games due to a separated shoulder in the second game of his senior year. He also posted three receptions for 62 yards and compiled a 39.2 punt average with a long of 84 yards as a senior. He received second-team District 4-4A honors for both his junior and senior seasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Tannehill

The short version is, put in a QB with weak pocket awareness, give him a suspect OL and you've got problems. The questions about Tannehill from when he was drafted remain, and the summary seems to be correct- he will be a good but not great Quarterback. He should be better if and when the OL improves but he is what he is- a good and serviceable QB who lacks that element of greatness. He needs to perform in the clutch, I'm not one of those who believes that, for example, running up good stats starting when we're down about 30 points against the Patriots and then not getting it done and the end when you're close is great QB play. Also, the last things he needed are the OL to get banged up and Ja'wuan James to start playing like crap, so you have to feel for the guy on that one.
 
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The Tannehill was a WR thing is such overblown. He was a QB recruited out of High School. He went to Texas AM, he was 2nd or 3rd on the depth chart as a freshmen at QB. He said I just wanna play so they tried him at WR and he excelled enough to where he got in games at WR. Then when Texas AM got thin at QB, he moved back to QB and won the job.

It's not like he was never a QB in his life till his junior year at Texas AM. He was a QB most of his life minus a year or so he played WR.

Tannehill is on the same level as guys like Alex Smith, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Sam Bradford....decent enough QB's who need a lot of help to look great. But middle of the road guys at best.
 
Somehow that robot actually did play wr in the SEC, you wouldn't believe it unless you saw it though cause at QB he looks about as athletic as a statue
 
he is absolutely not a "converted wide receiver." any media person who spouts that crap is woefully misinformed. as said above, when he didn't get the start at QB he still wanted to contribute somehow so he played WR until he was named the QB starter. hearing that stuff is infuriating.
 
Tannehill went to Texas A&M as a QB, didn't beat out the competition and was willing to play WR. However, Tannehill always attended QB meetings and was clear with the coaches he was a QB first. He did all the things a backup QB does. He was NEVER converted from being a WR.

Hear it out of his own mouth around the 2:10 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAzebw8cd20
 
BahamaFinFan78 said:
I know we have a lot of other Tannehill threads. His play is very polarizing; reminds me of Trump, people either love him or hate him, but anyway... I keep hearing that he is a WR that was converted to a QB. Is that correct? I thought he was always a QB that played WR for a year or two to be able to get on the field. I don't believe he is the answer for us at QB, but just want this fact cleared up.
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Trump! Come on, is that the only name out there these days? I actually don't care about splitting hairs on labelling what he was, I only care about what he is now.
I've always supported and hoped it works out with him, but Philbin selecting him was totally a coach following his old bosses' ideas and thinking. It was a suspect management move by Philbin to start his Head Coaching debut. Tannehill needs a solid 4 home games big time.
 
RT's pocket awareness is Clintonesqe. Never been any good despite coaching and all the advice.
The issue of the piss poor protection and terrible run blocking from this oline has not been corrected. RT would thrive under a balanced offense, not this WCO gimmick.
I still think this team should draft a guy in the middle rounds every year and find a real gem, but until that happens RT is our QB and there is no one on the roster better than him right now.
 
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he is absolutely not a "converted wide receiver." any media person who spouts that crap is woefully misinformed. as said above, when he didn't get the start at QB he still wanted to contribute somehow so he played WR until he was named the QB starter. hearing that stuff is infuriating.
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I prefer to look at it from the opposite side: The wide receiver background has been touted as a positive, here and elsewhere. Give him more time and everything will be swell. After all, he didn't have as many starts as the typical quarterback coming out of college.

Wow. I still cringe every time I see that theme. I wouldn't call it infuriating as much as sad and illogical. If our front office had anybody who embraced that notion, they should have been let go immediately.

That type of rationalization is fine for later in the draft. Meanwhile in the early first round we have drafted a running back in Ronnie Brown who redshirted without injury excuse at Auburn and was not the feature back, a quarterback in Ryan Tannehill who didn't start a collegiate season opener at the position until beyond his 23rd birthday, and a defensive end in Dion Jordan who frustrated Jon Gruden on draft day because Gruden couldn't find enough examples on tape of Jordan actually on the field for Oregon.

Then we wonder what went wrong.
 
I still can't believe Tannehill couldn't name all the teams and what divisions they played in...

Any 12 year old can rattle them off within 60 seconds. I think that was pretty telling
 
This is one of those I don't read a lot, but I want to start another bitch post.
 
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