The knee injury probably has some input in this. He has been moving better of late.

 

That's pretty weird. I would think a rookie QB under duress would take off running by instinct, but Tannehill rarely did early on.

Do you think it was coaching?

 

Boomer was really, really onto something when he mentioned this a few weeks back. Numbers bear it out as well.

 

Yeah. Just saying it has something to do. His last game was his best rushing game. Not counting last game, the previous 3 he had 4 rushes per game for 25 yards a game. Last game he took off. Maybe knee injury had small impact that's all.

 

He needs to do it more often, I love his athleticism.

 

I would take him over any QB that's going to be available in the '13 draft, and considering if we didn't take him last year we'd probably still be looking this year (unless we happened to rate Wilson higher than Seattle) then we definitely chose right.

Edit - oops, somehow managed to reply to wrong thread!

 

When this stuff gets harder in the playoffs, and we start facing the better teams, the ball in his hands and his ability to make plays running and scrambling, will be critical..

 

Would need to rewatch the games, but this could possibly be due to him extending drives which gives him more chances to hurt defenses. I'd like to know what happened on the drives where he got out and ran. Were they on average more successful than stationary pocket drives? Did the defense spy him and take a defender out of solely coverage? And did the play calls take him out of the pocket to trick the defense into biting on QB runs?

 

I was a little curious as to why they didn't call any designed runs the first half of the season. And it seems like he was coached to run only in absolute dire need, which I can understand to an extent.

But you draft Ryan Tannehill partly because of his athleticism. And when you take his athleticism away, you're taking a big part of his game away and letting the defense off the hook.

I'm glad either Ryan, himself, or the coaches are realizing his capabilities and the effect it can have on a game. And they're doing it intelligently. Calling designed runs where he slides at the first sight of danger. Smart.

In this case, I do believe correlation equals causation. Ryan's running has had an effect on defenses which has had a positive effect on his passer rating IMO

 

until very recently, it's not been part of his repertoire, or built into the scheme..it hasn't been good on both counts, looked better last week, hope the more experience he gets the more it will become second nature to him..

Still can't see how a coaching staff purposely constricts a Qb thru scheme but if that's true on some level, then maybe there's some more ceiling.

 

IMO (opinion. means I have no empirical evidence to back this up) the coaches wrote this season off the minute Garrard got hurt. I think from there they decided this season was going to be Tannehill's training. I think this was an extended scrimmage for him.

 

That's a pretty big freakin story lol...not sure I can buy it.

 

Ok, I don't mean they purposely lost games or anything, but I think they may have approached the season with their #1 goal of getting Tannehill ready instead of the #1 goal winning the SB. Know what i mean?

 

Well truthfully Fin D, this season was a throw away with Garrard too. I have a hard time believing that coaches, Philbin specially, thought this was a winning roster. Garrard is a savvy veteran and all, but he is not necessarily a world beater.

I think we'll regard Garrard's injury ultimately was a blessing in disguise, and perhaps the very best thing that could have happened for us this year. (since it opened the door for Tannehill to get his feet wet with relative very little pressure)

 

This roster is better than 2008's, coaching and game planning is better too.

 

I think it is either that or Tannehill had so many other things to worry about doing right that he just didn't think about running. Now that the game is slowing down he is able to use his athleticism more.

 

Yeah, but is it a winning roster? Would Garrard playing all year make us noticeably better?

 

2008 we went 11-5. So yes.

 

Yeah i'm not so sure. You're giving too much credit to what Garrard would have brought. I don't think he would have been that good.

 

We are over estimating Penny's performance. He was smart and made few mistakes but he played on a compressed field because his arm was held in place with a paper clip, a rubber band and that clear sticky stuff they use to attach gift cards to their cardboard packaging. We had to bring in the wildcat. Basically, Penny was half a really good QB that year and the WildCat was the other half. Garrard would have given us that more or less, probably a little less....but the defense is better this year.

 

Yeah maybe. In any case, i think it worked out for the best. I would take Tannehill 1 year experience to Garrard starting and at best a first round playoff exit.

 

I think tanny being able to extend the play on sunday and throw the ball while running was huge. That's a veteran move IMO.

 

Yeah I totally agree. its also why I keep saying we are close.

 

He is a pretty fluid runner too. It does not take him long to reach his stride but the thing that scares me about his running is when he slides. You can tell he's either never played any baseball or running bases just wasn't his thing. He even slightly hurt his foot when he caught it on the sod as he was sliding.

It may seen like a minor thing but if he gets hurt sliding?

 

Id agree with that 100%. Id go as far to assume that they didnt want him scrambling around to start the season off. Teach the kid the right way, to stand in the pocket, make a play through the air. Then, if it breaks down use your legs. You dont learn the QB position by tucking it and running for your life the second you get confused. Think your way through it, trust the gameplan, trust the playcall, trust what you read.

 

Too many young QB's who are athletic play like Jake Locker. I think what the Dolphins did was try to force him to play like Aaron Rodgers instead.

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Shou, don't sacks count as rushes? He was getting sacked more earlier in the season, less so the last games. Maybe that can account for the rush attempts earlier with little yardage, and the more attempts now with 10 times more yardage. Rush attempts now are actual rushes, as opposed to sacks?

 

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no need to rely on, if we provide him some better weapons to work with though

 

That would not be the first time sliding has caused and injury... And there is a difference between sliding on clay and sliding on sod. It needs to be taught, as well as covering your head from the idiots that want to end your career illegally and early.

 

This isn't college, sacks don't count as rushing attempts or against rushing yards.

 

I actually think that one slide Ozzy is taking about is when his knee brace caught in the ground on the slide in the first half. He then took the brave off in the second half.

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