Nobody seems to love Ryan Tannehill all that much around here.
Never made the playoffs. Not really earning his big bucks. Checks down too much on third down. Why, if a rumor started that Tannehill also fails to floss regularly, would Dolphins fans be prone to believe it and demand rapid improvement? In a heartbeat.
How different it would be if Ryan were on the open market this offseason.
You saw where Brock Osweiler signed with the Houston Texans for something like $18 million per year? That’s a lot of dough for a guy with seven NFL starts.
Tannehill, if it matters, has never missed a start in four pro seasons, beginning with the first game of his rookie year.
And there’s Chase Daniel, too. He just signed an outrageous deal with the Eagles that includes $12 million in guarantees. Never mind that he has thrown just one touchdown pass in his career.
Tannehill, if it matters, has thrown four touchdown passes in a single game during his Dolphins career, and he has done it twice.
Meanwhile, in other desperate deals still to be made, Colin Kaepernick and Robert Griffin III are being vetted by multiple NFL teams with no viable options at quarterback.
The 49ers are looking to trade Kaepernick, who was benched last year in favor of Blaine Gabbert and is rehabbing from offseason surgery on his right thumb and left knee. As for Griffin, who did not play at all last season, the Redskins cut him loose for anyone who may be interested.
Again, if it matters, Tannehill has never gotten himself benched like Kaepernick and Griffin. He has not allowed his career to flame out entirely like Johnny Manziel. He has never done anything but work hard to stay physically ready for action and mentally ready to learn, no matter which coach in a long line of Dolphins offensive gurus happened to be doing the teaching at a particular moment.
Sure, Miami has never made the playoffs with this quarterback. Matter of fact, they haven’t even had a winning season. With all of that, Tannehill is exactly the kind of young leader that other teams would love to land.
Brandon Weeden was a first-round pick in 2012, just like Tannehill, but these days he’s looking for work as somebody’s backup. He visited the Dolphins the other day but left without a contract.
Nick Foles, another 2012 draftee, had an early flash of success with Chip Kelly at Philadelphia but suddenly he’s behind Case Keenum on the Los Angeles Rams’ depth chart.
Do you think the Browns would like to have Tannehill right now, or is drafting another kid quarterback, this time from North Dakota State of the lower FCS division, a more pleasing prospect?
How about the Broncos? They’ve got Mark Sanchez at the moment and a not-so-secret plan to get Kaepernick on a restructured and reduced contract. Tannehill, who was drafted 49 spots ahead of Osweiler in 2012 and has started 57 more games, would look pretty good to John Elway right now if he could get him, but he can’t.
That’s because new Dolphins coach Adam Gase wants to see what he can do with Tannehill in 2016.
Gase interviewed with the Giants. They’ve got Eli Manning, a two-time Super Bowl champion but 35 years old. Gase also interviewed with the Eagles, who apparently are sticking with brittle Sam Bradford. Altogether, Tannehill must have come across to Gase, an outsider, as the best quarterbacking foundation on which to build.
Makes me happy for Ryan, even though sometimes his play frustrates me, too.
Either Tannehill and Gase strike it rich with the Dolphins this season, which is a win for everybody, or Miami probably cuts ties with Tannehill a year from now by trading him or cutting him, absorbing whatever heavy financial hits go with that.
That second option would work out well for Tannehill, too, if only because here will be another list of teams desperate to overpay for a decent quarterback in 2017, and another market somewhere that would welcome Ryan with all the hope in him that so many Dolphins fans seem to have lost.
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Never made the playoffs. Not really earning his big bucks. Checks down too much on third down. Why, if a rumor started that Tannehill also fails to floss regularly, would Dolphins fans be prone to believe it and demand rapid improvement? In a heartbeat.
How different it would be if Ryan were on the open market this offseason.
You saw where Brock Osweiler signed with the Houston Texans for something like $18 million per year? That’s a lot of dough for a guy with seven NFL starts.
Tannehill, if it matters, has never missed a start in four pro seasons, beginning with the first game of his rookie year.
And there’s Chase Daniel, too. He just signed an outrageous deal with the Eagles that includes $12 million in guarantees. Never mind that he has thrown just one touchdown pass in his career.
Tannehill, if it matters, has thrown four touchdown passes in a single game during his Dolphins career, and he has done it twice.
Meanwhile, in other desperate deals still to be made, Colin Kaepernick and Robert Griffin III are being vetted by multiple NFL teams with no viable options at quarterback.
The 49ers are looking to trade Kaepernick, who was benched last year in favor of Blaine Gabbert and is rehabbing from offseason surgery on his right thumb and left knee. As for Griffin, who did not play at all last season, the Redskins cut him loose for anyone who may be interested.
Again, if it matters, Tannehill has never gotten himself benched like Kaepernick and Griffin. He has not allowed his career to flame out entirely like Johnny Manziel. He has never done anything but work hard to stay physically ready for action and mentally ready to learn, no matter which coach in a long line of Dolphins offensive gurus happened to be doing the teaching at a particular moment.
Sure, Miami has never made the playoffs with this quarterback. Matter of fact, they haven’t even had a winning season. With all of that, Tannehill is exactly the kind of young leader that other teams would love to land.
Brandon Weeden was a first-round pick in 2012, just like Tannehill, but these days he’s looking for work as somebody’s backup. He visited the Dolphins the other day but left without a contract.
Nick Foles, another 2012 draftee, had an early flash of success with Chip Kelly at Philadelphia but suddenly he’s behind Case Keenum on the Los Angeles Rams’ depth chart.
Do you think the Browns would like to have Tannehill right now, or is drafting another kid quarterback, this time from North Dakota State of the lower FCS division, a more pleasing prospect?
How about the Broncos? They’ve got Mark Sanchez at the moment and a not-so-secret plan to get Kaepernick on a restructured and reduced contract. Tannehill, who was drafted 49 spots ahead of Osweiler in 2012 and has started 57 more games, would look pretty good to John Elway right now if he could get him, but he can’t.
That’s because new Dolphins coach Adam Gase wants to see what he can do with Tannehill in 2016.
Gase interviewed with the Giants. They’ve got Eli Manning, a two-time Super Bowl champion but 35 years old. Gase also interviewed with the Eagles, who apparently are sticking with brittle Sam Bradford. Altogether, Tannehill must have come across to Gase, an outsider, as the best quarterbacking foundation on which to build.
Makes me happy for Ryan, even though sometimes his play frustrates me, too.
Either Tannehill and Gase strike it rich with the Dolphins this season, which is a win for everybody, or Miami probably cuts ties with Tannehill a year from now by trading him or cutting him, absorbing whatever heavy financial hits go with that.
That second option would work out well for Tannehill, too, if only because here will be another list of teams desperate to overpay for a decent quarterback in 2017, and another market somewhere that would welcome Ryan with all the hope in him that so many Dolphins fans seem to have lost.
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