First and foremost they have to fix online above anything else including drafting lineman to start and for depth. This is tannehill last yr to prove that he no longer is a project but a good qb. Everyone needs to forget about playoffs or wins, this is about finding out if tannehill is the qb of the future for this franchise. Gase will give him that chance. Tannehill needs to prove to everyone that he can lead this team to success, no excuses. Either you perform or you don't. I criticize tannehill a lot not because I like to but because I want this kid to succeed. He is the toughest qb in the nfl. No other qb can take the amount of hits he takes and still walk. He reminds me of Bruce Willis character in the movie un breakable.
For 2016 tannehill has to be fearless , and find a way to make him hungry to succeed ex he can't get any from his wife unless he throws 3 td per game.Make him desperate. Anything to see him angry the whole game.
Conceding the first 4 years were brutal and he didn't have decent protection to execute and develop his skills while only giving him 1 year to prove himself really doesn't show much fairness.
For every skill he developed during that period of time that could have ended some NFL QB careers, he DID improve every year except the year his coach hung him out to dry to save his own job.
That's like abusing a dog for the first 4 years of his life, placing him in a loving family with children and expecting him to lose his defensive and territorial behaviors and turn out to be AKC Best of Show in just 1 year.
Because this organization and staff has left him hanging without an average NFL OL in his first 4 years he doesn't trust his protection, trust his coaches, trust his teammates and trust himself. Yet all of his supposed excuses are stripped away this year and he had better deliver.
Admitting he has viable "excuses" also admits you accept he was not given a fair chance to start. It's not his fault the fans have waited 4 years for him to ascend to NFL Greatness. But there's not a single fan that would stand behind that OL for 4 years and take the hits he has and not have their own new perspective on the problem.
Giving him 1 year to prove himself is holding him 100% responsible for every decision made by coaches, FO and players around him.
Sorry but that's not the correct way to develop a QB. The fans, organization and coaches must be all in on Tannehill. Developing a QB takes time. Just because the calendar time has passed with insufficient resources and effort applied doesn't mean "we tried". We failed.
Invest in the kid, stop half measuring the solutions around him and commit to him. You'll see the return once he trusts this coach, this staff, this FO, these fans and this organization have his back. He's gutted it out for 4 years taking hits while we've sat in our recliners. He deserves more than what he has gotten.
We need 2 starting OGs and a Swing Tackle. Get proven guys and not another rookie "to develop" and finally once and for all OFFICIALLY start the clock on his ascension. Give him resources, give him protection and give him a chance.
The Miami Dolphins are too blame for this. Not RT.
