Only in Dophins lala land.
For years we always said we need a franchise QB to build around. That one guy who takes his team on the back. After 3 years of Ryan "oh QBs are not that important." "QBs don't win games by themselves"
Now we are possibly in front of a pile of crap after 6 years (depending on Ryan's injury and if the Dolphins want to further invest) and we start questioning the phrase "franchise QB".
What is a franchise QB? A QB who elevates the talent around him. A QB who has the natural feel for the game. Pocket presence, acurate passing (outside dinking and dunking), pre snap reads and adjustments, can read defenses, is the exended arm of the OC, continues learning, arm strength and most of all plays at least for a decade for the team and will be a player we remember 10, 20, 30 years after he is gone.
Ryan went through some, I don't know, 40 OL players? How many different wide receivers? How many different OCs and HCs? Running backs? He is the only constant in that equation.
If nothing is ever good enough or the QB cannot elevate some of the OL play what do you have? Just another QB who might end up a journey man.
I am still baffled that people think our OL played stellar out of nowhere in the last game. They were put in the position to succeed. And the QB was a big part of that. He changed some protection at times which put our OL players in a position to succeed. Osweiler is anything but a franchise QB. He just used the basic requirements off an NFL QB after half a decade in the lague.
Should Ryan be gone soon then in a few years he will be a footnote in our history. He will be joining the Henne's, the Fiedler's, the Brian Griese's, the AJFeelys.
Unless a QB elevates himself to franchise QB that QB is just a QB we once drafted.
Depending on how the Dolphins feel about Ryan or his injury status he will either become another footnote or he will have another chance for another 2 years to proof that he is or could be a franchise QB.
