The comparisons are long past the point of tiresome irrelevance. Score points and win games. That's the comparison Tannehill needs to win, in relation to his prior seasons. It's ridiculous to pretend there aren't valid concerns. At Texas A&M he directed a team with a huge power rating yet finished 7-6 with many blown leads.
Bortles has been able to finish off those games. Likewise with Kaepernick so often. He rallied Nevada from a huge halftime deficit to upset a terrific Boise State team that had legit designs on the national championship game. Heck, as a freshman Kaepernick nearly upset Boise State on the road as a 35 point underdog, losing 69-67 in a game then went into overtime tied at 44-44. I remember it well because I had Boise State -17 in the first half and never had a chance. Who is this gangly kid scoring all those points against me?
You can see how absurd it's become when a thread shows up regarding Foles' level of play this preseason. That has no relevance to anything but via the desperation to adjust we want to believe Lazor was solely responsible to Foles' terrific 2013 and now will do the same for Tannehill.
When I was watching Russell Wilson the other night against the Bears I had to belly laugh at all the claims that he's not really much of a player, strictly the product of a system and boosted by supreme teammates. Minus the pathetic notion that we have to compare and apologize, those posts wouldn't exist. Wilson would be accepted for what he has been on every level, an excellent quarterback who overcomes his stature.
As a kid I distinctly remember not caring how good the rest of the league was. We were better. It would show up on the field. As I posted in the "scared" thread, those early '70s teams didn't need to tell the rest of the league why they should be worried about us. It's only when we're stuck in this pathetic range of slightly varying mediocrity for so many years that we resort to never ending worthless comparisons combined with whining that our team and players don't get enough respect.
Get in the end zone and earn it. At that point you won't care what Johnny Manziel and Blake Bortles are doing. Right now it's guaranteed that if either one of those guys -- among others -- gets into a game and stinks it up, there will be gloating threads. Meanwhile, do you really think Seahawk fans care about Ryan Tannehill's level?
Bortles has been able to finish off those games. Likewise with Kaepernick so often. He rallied Nevada from a huge halftime deficit to upset a terrific Boise State team that had legit designs on the national championship game. Heck, as a freshman Kaepernick nearly upset Boise State on the road as a 35 point underdog, losing 69-67 in a game then went into overtime tied at 44-44. I remember it well because I had Boise State -17 in the first half and never had a chance. Who is this gangly kid scoring all those points against me?
You can see how absurd it's become when a thread shows up regarding Foles' level of play this preseason. That has no relevance to anything but via the desperation to adjust we want to believe Lazor was solely responsible to Foles' terrific 2013 and now will do the same for Tannehill.
When I was watching Russell Wilson the other night against the Bears I had to belly laugh at all the claims that he's not really much of a player, strictly the product of a system and boosted by supreme teammates. Minus the pathetic notion that we have to compare and apologize, those posts wouldn't exist. Wilson would be accepted for what he has been on every level, an excellent quarterback who overcomes his stature.
As a kid I distinctly remember not caring how good the rest of the league was. We were better. It would show up on the field. As I posted in the "scared" thread, those early '70s teams didn't need to tell the rest of the league why they should be worried about us. It's only when we're stuck in this pathetic range of slightly varying mediocrity for so many years that we resort to never ending worthless comparisons combined with whining that our team and players don't get enough respect.
Get in the end zone and earn it. At that point you won't care what Johnny Manziel and Blake Bortles are doing. Right now it's guaranteed that if either one of those guys -- among others -- gets into a game and stinks it up, there will be gloating threads. Meanwhile, do you really think Seahawk fans care about Ryan Tannehill's level?
