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Why does Tannehill only have 6 td's?

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He has thrown for a decent amount of yards, and has started all of our games, but only has 6 touchdowns. I wonder why that is? Receivers? For contrast Chad Henne has only 1 less touchdown as a backup. Hopefully we can see a few more touchdowns for tannehill and see some strides!
 
No redzone threats.. No big playmakers.. Take your pick
 
Crazysimon said:
He has thrown for a decent amount of yards, and has started all of our games, but only has 6 touchdowns. I wonder why that is? Receivers? For contrast Chad Henne has only 1 less touchdown as a backup. Hopefully we can see a few more touchdowns for tannehill and see some strides!
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Not a fair comparison to Henne as he had a once in a lifetime game for himself yesterday. Red Zone offense or lack thereof would be the reason.
 
andyahs said:
Not a fair comparison to Henne as he had a once in a lifetime game for himself yesterday. Red Zone offense or lack thereof would be the reason.
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Aside from Henne, he is 31st in the league.
 
Why didn't davone bess look for the ball b4 birds interception during the bills game? Its a combination of inexperience, poor play calling and lack of playmakers.
 
No real WR that can catch the ball, break tackles and take it in. Once the team gets in the red zone they usually put the ball in on a running play.
 
I trust Ireland's drafting .. He will get us the playmakers we need..
 
Just look at our weapons. While they may get yards between the 20s they are terrible red zone targets. Theres a reason Hartline has only a 4 or so tds in 1592 games. Bess is a slot receiver who can beat his man off the line but isnt a threat in the endzone. Who do we have who can break a tackle and take it to the house? Who do we have that can get seperation in the endzone or go up and get the ball high?
 
Lets take a look at 2 of the TDs from that Jags Texans game....

The Blakmon 81 yard TD from Henne, it was about a 20 yard throw I believe, Blackmon made a great catch in traffic, the Texans defenders crashed into each other and took each other out of the play and Blackmon was left all alone and took it to the house... so it was a 20 yard pass from Henne and 60 yard run from Blackmon

The 48 yard game winning TD from the immortal Shaub to Andre Johnson, it was literally a 1 yard almost lateral pass on a WR screen that with help from good blocking and the awful Jaguars secondary, went for a TD.... so a 1 yard pass from Shaub and 47 yard run from Andre... goes down as a 48 yard TD pass from Shaub in the stat sheet

Stats as meaningful as they may be, sometimes need to be put into perspective like the "long td passes" above
 
We need a playmaker with he ability to break a tackle or juke in open field and take it to the house. Our yac is pretty bad.
 
28 pass attempts in the red zone might have something to do with it...that for the season. Tannehill has 3 TDs and 1 INT in the red zone on those 28 pass attempts on roughly 29 or 30 red zone possessions...he's passing once each trip on average.

Has no one else noticed that when we get in the red zone all Sherman calls are runs?
 
He would have more if we still had Ginn and Marshall. Say what you want about about Ginn, but his speed would take the top off the defense, and BM is one of the best red zone threats in the league. Put them on this roster, with Bess and Hartline, and that six would be at least twelve...but instead we rolled out Legadu, Armstrong and Gaffney. Those guys suck even compared to Ocho...

I mean really, we were going to start this season with David Garrard as our QB and Legadu and Ocho as the starting wr's....that let's you know the talent level of our offensive skill positions.
 
Dudes! Homer's Defend, Defend, and Defend. But the reason he only has 6 TDs through 10 Games, is the reason our record is 4-6, and he has 11 Interceptions and a QBR of 48. Say what you want about Playmakers but 2, 3 INT Games, and 2 more against Buffalo are the reason for 3 Losses. Can't turn the Ball over and Win, Playmakers or not.
 
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