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Mike Pouncey sure is doing that with Ryan Tannehill.
"I think he's the best rookie quarterback in the NFL right now," Pouncey said of Tannehill, taken by Miami with the No. 8 pick in last April's NFL draft. "Without his success that he's having right now, we wouldn't be the 3-3 Dolphins that we are."
So Tannehill is better than Andrew Luck, the top pick by Indianapolis?
Pouncey says yes."
I got him at 3 behind RG and Luck..but those guys are incredible prospects, really incredible..Absolutely thrilled our boy is in the conversation.
I believe at this point, we have enough reps to see that certain criticisms were just off predraft.
1) deep ball accuracy.
2) touch and trajectory.
3) working the middle of the field.
4) questionable decision making.
Just check those things off the list, and add poised, smart, tough as hell, willing to stand tall in the pocket, acute accuracy, athletic, can throw on the run, left or right, keeps eyes downfield when scrambling, thinks throw first, always.
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We've seen enough to establish a pretty high floor for him. I think the worst case scenario is a guy you can gut out wins with. What we haven't seen is him go ham and take over a game a la a Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers, Brady, Maning, etc. He is way ahead of schedule and could develop into special territory. The great thing is he already is better than anything we've had for about 12 or so years.
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smahtaz, RoninFin4 and BlameItOnTheHenne like this.
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Next week he will goto Andrew Lucks house, and show him who's boss.
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You know Nasty, all of those things were squashed when you can see it up close and in practice..
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I think that RT's draft ranking was hurt b/c his stats were good, but not great and he was on an okay team with a horrid defense. First of all, most people can't see past the team success. Their level of analysis stops at the W/L record. How many posts did you see here pre-draft that cited TAMU's W/L record as "proof" that RT wasn't worth a top 10 pick? Then next level of analysis is from the people who based it all on stats without watching the games or, just as bad, would watch the games but can't differentiate when a play's success or failure is due to the QB or some other factor. And when the QB is at fault you have to be able to identify if it is correctable (and then try to guess if his personality is such that it is likely to be corrected). These analysts were arguably more annoying b/c they had just as much ignorance, but believed they were knowledgable. The real bottom line on RT pre-draft was that he physically checked off all of the boxes and was highly intelligent and motivated with no obvious character flaws/question marks. A QB like that who played at a major college and had good success is always worth a top 10 pick. All the other "noise" was just worthless.
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Oh my God...I think I just threw up seeing that.
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The thing that has impressed me the most about Tannehill is his football intelligence. We knew he was a bright kid, but the pre snap reads and adjustments at the line he is making already at this stage is just really impressive. You just don't see many quarterbacks period, let alone rookie QBs, making that many calls at the line.
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I saw it live as well. Nasty, nasty injury. Guy flew right into the side.
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OMG....damn.
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I said before the draft that if I could take any QB in the 2012 draft, I would have taken RG3. After watching him play in several games this season. I think he is already a top ten QB in the NFL and he will eventually be the top QB in the NFL, IMO.
This takes nothing away from Tannehill, who I feel will also eventually be a top ten QB in the league. RG3 though is just a player who happens to have the arm, the legs, and the intelligence to be a very special player at the QB position in the NFL. -
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It will not surprise me if Lattimore has some disruption of blood flow from that injury and possible nerve damage. A friend of mine that played at Mississippi State had a similar injury, and he now wears a lower leg brace because he was about 30 minutes to 1 hour from losing his leg entirely.
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Jesus, I just saw the kid Scott from Arizona take a brutal head shot, I saw his eyes roll back in his head, he then thru up, and that staff isn't doing sh$)... If he's going back into the game, I would sue somebody...That kids brain got rocked, Rodriguez is over there acting like nothin happened....unbelievable.
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So check it out, after the timeout, he comes back out, looks disoriented, and blows all the clock and has to call timeout....and then, they call an Iso Qb run play where he gets crushed...I would be ballistic right now if I was that kids father...the while time Rodriguez is screaming at him for calling timeout.
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Replacing him after the fact was too late, as far as I am concerned. It showed me that Rodiguez cared more about winning the game than he cared about his player. I hope the parents of the players Rodriguez is recruiting saw how little he cared about his player and they will convince their sons to go somewhere else. Not to the, University of Arizona and play for a coach like Rodriguez. -
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