http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nfl/miami-dolphins/article144385454.html
Truth is, as it has always been, Thill is actually one of the better QBs in the league and his team has been just been that bad.
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Saying that Thill would be a great QB if the offense and everybody around him functioned perfectly is not a great revelation, most NFL starting quarterbacks would be great under ideal conditions.
What truly separates the great ones from the decent or average ones is being able to succeed and show their stuff in spite of adversity and things not functioning perfectly.
Tanehill so far has not shown he can succeed in the face of adversity and elevate his play to meet big challenges. He is a decent QB, not one of the best in the league as you say please stop it with this nonsense.
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My favorite part of this article is how it does not rely on magic.
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When did Marino ever have a running back like Jay Ajayi to hand off to? Never.
Marino's offensive lines were not anymore talented than what we have now. Yet marino always showed his greatness despite playing on some very ****ty teams.
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But to Hitman's point- Brady just won a Super Bowl with receivers that wouldn't start elsewhere. Manning dominated in Indy with little more than a solid offensive line. 14-2 as a starter in his last season there, then 2-14 without him. Marino did the same for many years.
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The proof is that when RT had a running game and protection he put up top 10 QB numbers.
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I've said Thill needs 3 specific things, 2 of the 3 things every great QB has had. He gets those. You pretend it was magic. And you're so dead set on it being magic, that you'll get belligerent at the mere notion that magic isn't involved.
Now, here's yet another person telling you these things, a professional I might add, and again, you harp on magic and **** all over actual facts and results. -
1997 was not a good year for Marino. He only had 16 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. With a rating of 80, which is lower than Tannehill's lowest when he had Wallace, Hartline, and ????.
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As far as the Pats comment, Chris Hogan...our 7 Eleven...was the star of the post season. He wouldn't make our roster. Where would you put Edelman on our roster? Surely not ahead of Parker or Stills. He's not better than Landry either. So you're talking a slot receiver WR4 at best for him. And those were their best two guys last season.hitman8 likes this. -
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What happened in Indy? They went from Peyton Manning to Curtis Painter. That does nothing to disprove the original theory. It just says a team cannot have a terrible quarterback and win games. I do not think the 1985 Bears would have won games with Curtis Painter. -
Tannehill is a decent QB, but he is not great and not one of the best in the league unless your idea of one of the best is being top 20.
Tannehill has up to this point shown some real flaws in his game in terms of bad instincts, poor pocket presence, holding on to the ball too long, inconsistent accuracy on his throws requiring his recievers to regularly adjust to make the catch or have an expanded catch radius, and he also has a tendancy to be gun shy and consistently check down for the safe throw instead of going for it.
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“Timing and placement is easier for him when he pushes the ball to the intermediate and deep routes,” he writes. “One of the best arms in the NFL. ... Throws well from the pocket but becomes more confident and aggressive outside of the pocket. ... Exceptional deep passer. ... Pressure doesn't impact his mechanics.”
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Well, guess what? Manning was awesome and the Colts sucked. Yet they went 14-2. Painter proved that by going 2-14 with the same roster. Marino never had a running game...yet Miami almost always finished above .500. There are countless examples of great QB's carrying bad teams.
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How any rational person can believe that the Colts didn't purposefully tank that season to get Luck is beyond me.btfu149, djphinfan, Unlucky 13 and 1 other person like this. -
Almost everyone here likes Tannehill these days and we're excited for the 2017 season. Please stop enabling this kind of stuff.Puka-head likes this. -
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2. It is frustrating that, no matter what evidence is given regarding Tannehill, the same arguments are used to try to show Tannehill to be not good. This article is more of the same. The guy destroys the arguments that many on here use, yet it's simply dismissed out of hand. -
But no. Hell, you can't even accurately restate your misrepresentation of my stance.....ON THE SAME PAGE OF THE SAME THREAD!!!!!danmarino likes this. -
And sure, you can keep creating scenarios to avoid disproving whatever the hell you're trying to prove in the first place. Do you even know what you're trying to argue about? Because nobody else does...you can't even agree that the OP said that Tannehill was great. It's so incredibly annoying to have every thread hijacked with this nonsense just to piss people off and drive them away from Phins.com.
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Thats an exciting article, he's always been an innately accurate QB..I hope he implements the one part of the game that his coaches and a couple others have been talking about..its his best way of becoming a better QB, and improving our chances of winning championships...the art of winning...convert at all cost.
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A big part of the reason why tannehill has taken so many sacks in his career is because he has terrible pocket presence, holds on to the ball too long and has a relatively slow release, all three of which are things that marino was amongst the best at and enabled him to avoid many sacks.
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