Remember just yesterday when I said I thought I was back on the Tannehill bandwagon?
That was pretty short lived.
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The story of the day was defensive pressure and Tannehill simply had no answer for it.
This is such a recurring theme that we've seen year after year.....teams dial up the pressure, the line collapses and Tannehill turns into a deer in the headlights.
To Tannehill's credit, he was scrambling for his life and this was MOSTLY an offensive line issue.
It's never the QB's fault when an untouched defender lights them up, and it's even harder to blame a guy with a sprained ankle.
But at the same time, we can't win football games without an answer in sight.
Either we need to leave two TE's in there for max protect, keep two backs on the field...something.
One thing I watch for in these games is a close-up of Tannehill's face in the replay, and what I have seen this season is not promising.
On a few of today's sacks he had his eyes/mouth wide open (a look of panic), his eyes were closed once (a look of defeat), and a grimace of anticipated pain on several others.
He simply cannot react fast enough to evade pressure and I don't know how he's ever the answer without stellar protection.
When he's safe in the pocket the guy is incredible- maybe a top-5 quarterback.
When he's challenged though, he falls out of the top 30.
I had to stop watching with about 4 minutes left after his 8th or 9th sack- he just didn't belong on the field taking those hits.
Fear not though Dol-fans, because this was a game most of you expected us to lose.
Just like the Miami Miracle was a single win, this was only a single loss.
We still have the Jags at home next week and it's a very winnable game to at least reach .500 on the season.
The other good news, hopefully Howard is ready to go next week....he's sorely missed!
He would have negated 3 of those passing TD's from McCain and McTyer getting smoked straight off the LOS.
Not saying we would have won today with him on the field, but it would have at least been a contest in the closing minutes.
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