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Tannehill could become 2nd Phins QB to pass for 4k yards

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I know we all love stats around here, but this is impressive. Mind you I found this article early Sunday morning but couldn't post it because I was on my phone at the time.

Dan Marino is in a class all by himself, and rightfully so.

But very quietly, Ryan Tannehill has put himself close to joining what for decades has been a club of one.

Marino is the only quarterback in the Dolphins’ 48-year history to throw for at least 4,000 yards (he did it six times). Bob Griese never did it. Neither did Jay Fielder or Chad Pennington.

But Tannehill will join him even with four below-average starts to finish the season.

Tannehill, it might surprise you to learn, ranks 11th in the NFL with 3,115 passing yards — putting him ahead of past Super Bowl MVPs (and bonafide stars) Joe Flacco, Eli Manning and Aaron Rodgers.

And so, if Tannehill can average just 222 passing yards over the last four weeks of the season — beginning Sunday in Pittsburgh — he’ll make history.
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SOURCE: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/08/3804514/quarterback-ryan-tannehill-on.html
 
We haven't had a QB throw for more than 20TDs in a season since Marino too.
 
Going on the math alone, if Chad Pennington would have attempted the same number of passes per game in 2008 as Ryan Tannehill has attempted this year, he would've thrown for 4,586 yards.

Yards per pass attempt means far more than yards alone.
 
shouright said:
Going on the math alone, if Chad Pennington would have attempted the same number of passes per game in 2008 as Ryan Tannehill has attempted this year, he would've thrown for 4,586 yards.
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Well you're a fool if you think pennington would have survived to throw that many passes. This oline would've got him killed or his glass shoulder would have shattered due to overuse. Also what would tannehill's adjusted stats be with that running game and oline?
 
shouright said:
Going on the math alone, if Chad Pennington would have attempted the same number of passes per game in 2008 as Ryan Tannehill has attempted this year, he would've thrown for 4,586 yards.

Yards per pass attempt means far more than yards alone.
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[video=youtube;RFZrzg62Zj0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFZrzg62Zj0[/video]
 
Go do it Ryan...go join Marino in that rarified Dolphins air.
 
shouright said:
Going on the math alone, if Chad Pennington would have attempted the same number of passes per game in 2008 as Ryan Tannehill has attempted this year, he would've thrown for 4,586 yards.

Yards per pass attempt means far more than yards alone.
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Man, seriously, get the hell out of here. Nobody wants to read your passive aggressive disdain for Tanehill. It really is getting old.
 
shouright said:
Going on the math alone, if Chad Pennington would have attempted the same number of passes per game in 2008 as Ryan Tannehill has attempted this year, he would've thrown for 4,586 yards.

Yards per pass attempt means far more than yards alone.
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Hell of a lot easier to have the Yards per pass attempt when you have a significantly better line and run game....even a statistician as yourself should understand that a multiple of variables can effect any given stat. To look at a stat and not take those into account is just plain ignorant, but keep banging that Yards Per Pass Attempts drum and ignore the hundreds of other factors that play into every stat in football.
 
Chad Pennington with his Dink and dunks vs top 10 scoring defenses had a career sub 32% winning record and in that magical 2008 was even worse going 1-3 vs those D's if you count his 8 men in the box humiliation against the Ravens in the postseason,...which is closer to his approximately 29% vs playoff teams, To extrapolate out his short pass accuracy and ignore his limitations that good defenses historically have feasted on vs Tannehills big arm that keeps formidable D's honest speaks loudly to how misleading, rigged and/or irrelevant the manipulation of statistics often really is. Not all 4000 ye passers are created equally.
 
Nublar7 said:
Tannehill is the real deal.
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He's certainly been the real deal over the past six games. This is the first time in his career he's been able to stretch together a significant number of games in a row of high-level play.
 
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