First off, being drafted by the Miami Dolphins. Going through a series of incompetent coaches, never building the offensive line, on and on. Tannehill's not a great quarterback, but he didn't exactly come into an ideal situation either.
The point really is that we will never know what could have been with RT because of the previous coaching he had.
He did well under Gase until the injuries began to happen. Wasn't RT the record holder for having been hit his first 5 years? Didn't his coaches do more to hold him back then to develop him his first 5 years in the NFL? Clearly the first 5 years set RT up for failure rather then success.
That Gase was able to get some really respectable and successful play out of him in 2016, prior to the series of major injuries, speaks well for both of them. The reality is that there are a bunch of lemmings out there who claim a righteousness of their opinions that is not supported by the realities of what they are trying to evaluate.
So RT had a good 2016, so what.
Their whining goes like this:
He was bad the first five years and will be bad forever.
Forget his success in 2016 after he got accustomed to his third or forth system in his professional career.
He is prone to injury because of his ACL injury at the end of 2016 and a shoulder injury shortly after he returned.
Forget how tough he was after his first five years of taking the most hits the NFL had ever seen.
He never made the playoffs.
Forget that he had us playing for the playoffs before he was injured by what many consider a dirty hit.
The lemmings are more full of themselves then they are of football knowledge and that's a fact!
RT's current reality is as follows:
RT has been unproductive since 2017 due to injuries and an offensive line that seldom played well. There is a new coaching staff that will want to bring in their preferred players. He is more then 1/2 way through his career and is being paid as the teams primary QB. The team is severely cap limited and in need of filling many weak positions on the field. This places RT in the difficult position of being a potential cap casualty like so many other higher paid NFL players each year, and being evaluated to see if the new coaching staff even wants him.
All this adds up to RT probably leaving the Dolphins, either this year or next year, barring his having an outstanding 2019 season, and that assumes he even gets to play.
This clearly isn't related to any of the reasons the lemmings are floating out there to sooth their damaged egos.
We now have a new coaching staff. Lets try something different for a change.
Lets pretend that the new coaching staff know more about football and football players then we do. Lets pretend that they are constrained by available capital and the available players in putting together a team for 2019. Lets go all the way out there and, based solely on averages, pretend that we finish near the middle of the league in most ratings this season. Lets pretend we like seeing improvement in the teams play and growth in the teams players, no matter what obstacles befall us.
Lets pretend we are mostly fans and not lemmings.
Lets pretend that most of the negative responses to this post aren't from lemmings.
There, that's enough pretending for this season!
