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The “For Real?” Files: Laremy Tunsil

is Laremy Tunsil for real? Is this a member of the “young nucleus”?

  • Yes

    Votes: 35 71.4%

  • No

    Votes: 14 28.6%
  • Total voters
    49
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The premise for this series is simple: we want to know who is in our “young nucleus”. Today, we’ll vote on Laremy Tunsil.
There’s not many meaningful stats to dissect on OL anyway. This is an “eye test” sort of thing. To frame this in what I feel is the appropriate context, the OL is defined by its whole. Yes, the individuals give shape to the whole, and you can analyze the individual parts, but the ultimate goal for a high quality OL is in its interconnectedness.
Installment #1: Xavien Howard, 91% Yes, 4% No, 5% I’m stupid.
Installment #2: Kenyan Drake, 93% Yes, 4% No, 3% I’m stupid.
I, for one, thought Laremy Tunsil would be dominant by now. It might be unfair of me since his rookie campaign was spent at guard which potentially decelerated his transition to tackle, but I had the bar really high for him. As with just about everyone on the Miami Dolphins offensive line, he had his ups and downs: you see plays of stunning athleticism and balance, and you see plays where his reaction is slow and he loses leverage. PFF ranked him as the 47th tackle. He was the undisputed leader in penalties (12) on the 2017 Miami Dolphins roster.
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It's hard to say, I think any half way decent player is going to get voted yes because people get caught up on potential and hope. I mean had you asked this last year Ajayi would have probably gotten 100% yes, now he's not even on the team.

I voted no for the simple reason of he just seems like someone who is never going to reach his full potential, just doesn't strike me as a guy that puts in a ton of work to try and be the best.
 
I have to say yes, purely based on potential like superphin stated. This kid can be great if he takes his career seriously and puts in the work, not only on his game but his body too.
 
superphin said:
It's hard to say, I think any half way decent player is going to get voted yes because people get caught up on potential and hope. I mean had you asked this last year Ajayi would have probably gotten 100% yes, now he's not even on the team.

I voted no for the simple reason of he just seems like someone who is never going to reach his full potential, just doesn't strike me as a guy that puts in a ton of work to try and be the best.
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exactly what are you basing that on? Or is this just more of your 'everything in Miami is wrong' stuff?
 
fin415 said:
exactly what are you basing that on? Or is this just more of your 'everything in Miami is wrong' stuff?
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Simple the fact the fact that he was billed as the best OT in his draft class and has yet to live up to that or any of the expectations placed on him. So basically I'm basing it on his play on the field as well as my own personal opinion. Could I be wrong? why yes I can since I don't have an office in the Dolphins facilities. As far as me saying everything is wrong in Miami, I don't recall that, if you could enlighten me that'd be great.

Also Tunsil himself admitted that his practice habits weren't the best and was something he needed to improve on or something to that effect.
 
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I think he’s a potential hall of fame guard. Wasn’t great at Lt last year but he’s most likely not moving back to guard.
 
I think having 2 different offensive line coaches and 2 different blocking schemes last year really hurt some of the offensive lineman. I will be watching LT closely this year to see how his responds to the new coach. We really need continuity on the line as a whole, from coaching to personnel.
 
The answer here is TBD.
Playing LG year 1 certainly didn't help his development as a LT. The OLine coaching mess was another bump in the road (no pun intended).
But it's up to Laremy. IMO he could be physically stronger. His body conditioning seems a little meh to me. He needs to hit the weight room and film this offseason and frankly get a little nastier on the field.
 
Hard for me to say definitively. I felt his play was generally OK to good, but seemed inconsistent. When a player comes in with all the hype he had, he can play OK and never satisfy some of those who will accept nothing less than the hype.

I anticipate he will improve this year in terms of consistency and that his playing was good enough last year to justify voting YES, considering his change in positions from the previous year and the coaching mess the front line had to contend with last year.
 
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