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​The Dolphins Are Stuck in Quarterback Purgatory
The Miami conundrum: Ryan Tannehill is neither good enough to win nor bad enough to replace
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[FONT=&amp]Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill has put his team in a bind. He isn’t bad enough.
[/FONT][FONT=&amp]This season, Tannehilll has posted a mediocre quarterback rating of 83.6, which falls in line with his consistently mediocre career mark of 85.1. Like always, there are worse passers in the league this season, some even in his division. Which is why Tannehill has again been good enough to keep his job. But Miami is also 1-4 and given that just 7.5% of teams that start this way make the playoffs, according to Stats LLC, it’s a safe bet he’ll miss the postseason for a fifth straight season. If this happens, Tannehill’s unique ability to be neither good nor terrible will set a record of sorts and crown Miami as the most patient team in NFL history.

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]Among quarterbacks drafted in the first round since 1990, only former Texans quarterback David Carr started more games for the same team without making the playoffs. At 69 starts, Tannehill will soon pass that mark. But while Carr toiled for an expansion franchise, Tannehill joined a Dolphins team coming off a 6-10 season.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]Tannehill nominally became Miami’s franchise quarterback prior to the start of last season when the Dolphins decided to pay him nearly $100 million over six years. Despite that paycheck, history has shown that NFL teams will eventually make a switch if the team isn’t going anywhere.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&amp]Jeff George was once the future of the Colts as the first overall pick in 1990. He was jettisoned after 49 starts. Another No. 1 pick, Sam Bradford, matched that total with the Rams before he was traded.
[/FONT][FONT=&amp]George would eventually make the playoffs with two different teams and Bradford is currently leading the 5-0 Vikings. So there may be hope for Tannehill—just not in Miami.[/FONT]
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dolphins-are-stuck-in-quarterback-purgatory-1476231434
 
Can we PLEASE get a separate forum for all Tannehill threads?
 
roy_miami said:
Yup. Maybe we can trade him to the Vikings when Bradford gets hurt.
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Honestly the article is not wrong though. It is not unheard of that the first marriage between QB and team is a failure and both might thrive with different partners.

What the article did not mention is that in 2013 we had a grand opportunity to at least make the playoffs. Who knows how the future would have been if we would have made it.
 
When WSJ goes out their way to write a negative sports article about your team you know you've got problems.
 
The Dolphins are not in quarterback purgatory. They are in quarterback hell. If you don't have a quarterback that can make you at least a consistent playoff contender, then you don't have a quarterback and you are in quarterback hell. There is no way you can pay Tannehill $20 million next season for the level of play he gives you. It is definitely time to look for Tannehill's replacement.
 
rickd13 said:
The Dolphins are not in quarterback purgatory. They are in quarterback hell. If you don't have a quarterback that can make you at least a consistent playoff contender, then you don't have a quarterback and you are in quarterback hell. There is no way you can pay Tannehill $20 million next season for the level of play he gives you. It is definitely time to look for Tannehill's replacement.
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You do understand that the level of talent around him would hold back all of about 2 QBs from being successful here.

I can't wait to hit the reset button and be right back here 2-3 years...
 
QB Purgatory?

How about Owner Purgatory. Where the Owner is committed enough to spend money to try to improve the team, but simply has no idea about football and gets hoodwinked by snake oil salesmen pretending to be GMs.

I don't even care if we get rid of Tannehill, it would be interesting to see how he does on a different team, but it's ridiculous that people think a QB is going to fix the circus we're running.
 
Considering Football Outsiders has the MIA OL ranked 32nd in pass protection thru 5 games, coupled with PFF ranking the line 32nd in 2014 and 31st in 2015, I'd pronounce the entire team to be in "Offensive Hell" for the last 3 years... but would agree that Tannehill is on the precipice of IR and/or field triage "purgatory" as a result.
 
I have been referring to RT as QB purgatory for as long as I have been around. He isn't good enough to win because of, but not bad enough to replace.
 
slk018 said:
I have been referring to RT as QB purgatory for as long as I have been around. He isn't good enough to win because of, but not bad enough to replace.
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I feel like I coined the term QB purgatory. Should have trademarked it.
 
QB purgatory is that space behind our line, that's the correct definition of it...
 
I do not understand how people can be so supportive of such a mediocre player. If this was any other position nobody would be supporting him. There's this pattern that is starting to emerge where he plays like crap everybody realizes it watching it in realtime but then by the end of the week everybody has made 1000 excuses as why he is playing poorly and have re-convinced themselves he isn't that bad. This evaluating him after every game is pointless we've got five years of evidence. He's not a leader he's not a play maker and he's not the guy you want for the face of your franchise it's time to move on. You last holdouts just need to except this fact.
 
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