Its good to hear Lazor verbalizing a lot of our apprehensions about Tannehill .Hopefully it will result in a better performance.:yes:
And it seems Philbin is serious about trying Misi at MLB
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Here's Bill Lazor's presser:
http://www.miamidolphins.com/multim...hll_More/c6007255-3f45-490b-98a7-5ffd021c7213
Came away very impressed with how he well he communicates and how focused and organized he seems to be. Looks like he knows exactly what needs to be done to get the offense up and running and how to do it. I liked what he said about the QB position and how Tannehill needs to progress. I like how he wants to get the opposing defense off balance with the up tempo offense and unpredictability in the snap (which means no more GO and GO, GO! :hi5:).
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Wow that was refreshing to see a coach talk about specifics within the game instead of the bland "Well we'd like to see improvements in all areas. More TD's less INT's."
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He seems to bring some intensity, which I'm all for.
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This staff definitely needed some fire behind it. Hopefully Philbin being more laid back in approach to players and Lazor being more passionate will be a good mix.77FinFan likes this. -
Huge difference between Lazor and Philbin at the podium, Philbin talks exactly like how he looks: dead. Lazor is lively and actually answers questions honestly.
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Tannehill looks like he has put on some muscle himself...
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Excited about tannehill this season if the oline doesn't fall to pieces this year. -
While this post will probably not be liked its something I want people to read and really think about. This is Tannehill's first year inside a new offense. One that is completely foreign to him, not the same offense he was accustom to at Texas A&M and his first two years here. There will be some kinks to work out. The growing pains associated with adjusting to a new offense will bear their head some this season. I love Lazor and I'm a huge Tannehill fan, but I don't think the transition will be as smooth as most people here think it will be.
This is just one of the reasons why I could see us finishing this year 6-10 to 11-5. I'd be more adpt to bet that we finish 7-9 or 8-8. Just my two cents. -
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After talking about teaching fundamentals (footwork, etc.), and how the coaches need to be great teachers - and that everything is communicated clearly about what they want and how to do it, Lazor said:
"As we are on the field we started with how we want them to play physically. Playing with great fundamentals, footwork, base, playing on a certain tempo. As I finish studying the practice today, I want to see the ball coming out on time, letting his footwork tell him when to throw, and I want to see that he trusted us that this is the way it needs to be. The quarterback has got to play at game speed - every day in practice. The receivers will catch up to him, but the quarterback has got to play at game speed and that's the first thing we are trying to do with Ryan from the very beginning ... the only way to learn it is to do it."
This is very good stuff. I hope Lazor succeeds because he is a very good communicator and I think can be a good head coach. -
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I'm optimistic about a coach that will ride Tannehill harder because I have a feeling that Mike Sherman and Zac Taylor became so used to Ryan Tannehill that perhaps they were inclined to let certain things go because they'd gotten acclimated to them...and that's not good for a player that is still developing.
HOWEVER, as always you have to hold some of these statements up to scrutiny lest we all fall into the same trap of every off season where the coaches all talk big and use buzz words like "aggressive" and "attacking" and "play fast", etc...and we get all starry-eyed thinking they're geniuses for wanting the same things every football coach in the history of the game has wanted since time immemorial.
To that end, something I'm a little confused about is the concept that Tannehill's problem is he needs to get the football out of his hands. Consider this:
1. Nick Foles took an average of 2.88 seconds to throw the ball in 2013. He held the ball 2.6 seconds or longer on 61.2% of his drops. Both of these were good for highest place in the entire league. Literally no quarterback (that met certain playing time standards) held the football longer than Nick Foles prior to the throw.
2. On the other hand, only a total of 6 (out of 26) quarterbacks got the football out of their hands on average more quickly than Ryan Tannehill did in 2013.
I fully believe that there were DEEP BALL plays that needed to be sped up, particularly focusing on Tannehill's footwork to speed up the execution of the play, and so I was glad to hear Lazor talk about Tannehill's feet bringing him to his throw more quickly.
However, on the other 95% or whatever of throws that constitute a quarterback's work...getting the football out of his hands "on time" has not been an issue for Ryan Tannehill.
I think a good part of the deep ball problem lies in the foundation of the play design. There's only so quickly you can execute a play-action pass with an off-center mesh point where Tannehill has to turn his back to the defense, sprint out to the off-center mesh point, curl back around, locate the defense and then release the football. There was often too much backfield action relative to how long a guy like Mike Wallace needs to get open. Tannehill's feet need to speed up on these plays but the plays themselves need to meet him halfway.
So far I'm positive on Lazor, the way he presents himself as being hard on Tannehill. I'm positive generally on the concept of speeding up Tannehill's feet, particularly if he means deep ball plays. There have been some some references to horizontal stretch option plays that was pretty unique to Philadelphia last year, and I was a big fan of them.
But a lot of the stuff coming out in the particulars of how he's going to change things around Miami don't have substance. Stuff about changing the tempo...Miami already had fast tempo. They were very similar to Philly in how they manipulated their tempo. Stuff about Tannehill getting the ball out more quickly, Tannehill already got the ball out quickly on the overwhelming majority of his plays. That was not the problem. The new offensive coordinator is not going to impress me by talking about tempo and getting the ball out of Tannehill's hands more quickly (unless he's specifically talking about the deep ball).
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Can't mistake discretion and misdirection for dishonesty. I highly doubt Philbin is trying to be malicious in his answers, but he's got a job to do that entails not CNNin' the entire foreign policy of the Miami Dolphins for the media.
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In regards to the tempo, he said that "tempo" to him, usually refers to the amount of time taken between the break of the huddle to the snap of the ball, which to me indicates unpredictability as to when the ball would be snapped, catching defenses off guard... that, IMO, is not something we saw last year.
Another thing that Lazor said is that in his analysis he was specifically talking about what he saw on the field, and not what he saw on tape. So his comments were mostly targeted at how the QB's we're running HIS offense right now and not comparing what they did in last season's offense. -
People are just happy to hear someone say something they agree with, of course we gotta see it to believe it... I was encouraged with the talk of screens run, various Wr/Te positioning, and a deliberate attempt to move the QB. Was discouraged at Tannehill's accuracy issues in his reps, and continuing Deep pass issues (excuse away...). Hopefully Lazor is a man of his word, and Tannehill's reign hasn't gone to his head, though he seems a humble and willing guy.
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Tannehill's footwork and stances have needed work for a while. I was happy to read a few days ago that Lazor had changed the QB stance under center to the old Dan Fout's type stance with the left foot further back, so that the QBs are further away from the Center once the ball is snapped, allowing for the QB to be further from the line, have a better view of the field, and decreasing any chance of having the center step back on the QBs foot.
A lot of ball placement issues and such is dependent upon proper footwork and timing. Tannehill didn't just lead the league both short sacks and overall sacks, he was also under constant pressure from the edge, usually the right side. Also, it's easy to climb the pocket in such situations, IF one exists, but it often didn't, so a lot of times he wasn't stepping into a lot of throws or was shuffling to his left as he was trying to throw and this leads to bad habits in the footwork. Improving the OLine and having an established QB coach in Lazor should be able to correct a lot of these type issues.jason8er and PhinishLine like this. -
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I cant wait for preseason..thats all I can say. From the sounds of it....our Offense is gonna look alot different.
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