Yeah, I know. I share the identical frustration and I've voiced the same thing countless times. It is still startling to me because where I lived for so long the tape guys were not allowed any weight at all. They were literally laughed out of the room. Bottom line town so adjustments not exactly appreciated, not unless they involved which team was likely in situational positive mode or situational negative mode. That stuff does work...more often than not.
I'll point out that the tape guys like Sons of Shula and Hoops were also the ones who claimed that Tannehill would naturally rise up the ladder due to attrition alone, as Manning and Brady, etc. retired. I emphasized it was nonsense, that normalcy doesn't go away, and therefore we'll have guys taking those spots ahead of Tannehill, even if we don't know the names right now. I certainly didn't know Patrick Mahomes' name at the time. I might have heard of early Baker Mayfield. None of it is surprising. If we are content with a quarterback on this level the remainder of the league aspires above us.
Tannehill has good numbers this year, albeit partially due to the short shovel passes against the Raiders. Still, I'm not going to ignore the high YPA. He needs to be trusted to cut loose early in pivotal games especially as underdog. A few years ago at Cincinnati he hit Stills on our first possession for a deep touchdown. We didn't do much the rest of the game. But that type of early aggression is necessary. I am not conceding anything to a Crowd team like the Cincinnati Bengals. Who cares how many points they have scored? Is that supposed to be season long norm? Hardly. They can regress and will regress. But if it happens against us we need to be there to take advantage of it, instead of hoping they stall at our 1 yard line early, enabling another late comeback.
I hope the offensive line injuries don't mean this is another season we rationalize that we don't really know what we have in Ryan Tannehill. That is beyond old.
