When you see the raw numbers on Ryan Tannehill, his steady year-to-year statistical gains, you kinda/sorta want to believe…
2013 – 3913 pass yards, 6.7 Y/A, 24 TDs, 17 INTs
2014 – 4045 pass yards, 6.9 Y/A, 27 TDs, 12 INTs
2015 – 4208 pass yards, 7.2 Y/A, 24 TDs, 12 INTs
I mean, those are completely respectable totals right there. In fact, Tom Brady’s stats in his age 25-27 seasons weren’t really so different (that is, if you ignore all of Brady’s winning and the Super Bowls and various individual awards. Which you shouldn’t). It’s not hard to find reasons to be semi-optimistic about Tannehill’s future. He’s a young player who’s already delivered a few nice on-field moments, and he’s never missed a game in his four NFL seasons.
But then you flash back to the many stalled drives, the head-scratching throws, the miles of field position lost to sacks, the red-zone failures, and, well … your optimism recedes. The fear with Tannehill is that he’s the worst variety of NFL quarterback — adequate enough to never lose his job, flawed enough to never win anything meaningful.
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