Darnold decision is easy!

[Dunnie]

If Darnold had the best coach in the league, the best offensive line, and elite wide receivers, running backs and tight ends then it would be fair to criticze him

So you are saying that for any QB to look respectable the need the best everything.... w t f is wrong w you.

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2 hours ago, Dunnie said:

So you are saying that for any QB to look respectable the need the best everything.... w t f is wrong w you.

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I hope he was joking but the best humor does start with truth and even satirizing the last bastion of Darnoid self-soothing comfort hope is almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

[Dunnie]

I hope he was joking but the best humor does start with truth and even satirizing the last bastion of Darnoid self-soothing comfort hope is almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

Personally I would have hoped Darnold would have gone full Martel by now and played by his own rules schoolyard style ...but he respects Gase too much, and is too polite to do that.

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32 minutes ago, Dunnie said:

Personally I would have hoped Darnold would have gone full Martel by now and played by his own rules schoolyard style ...but he respects Gase too much, and is too polite to do that.

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Pity because he has crushed his next contract value by going along with Gase's moronic plays.

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35 minutes ago, Dunnie said:

Personally I would have hoped Darnold would have gone full Martel by now and played by his own rules schoolyard style ...but he respects Gase too much, and is too polite to do that.

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I don't think this is any kind of realistic option at all.  QBs don't just blatantly disregard their HC. 

I mean, if Adam Gase tried to tell Peyton Manning that he wouldn't be allowed to audible, Peyton would have obviously had the power to tell the HC that Gase isn't the OC for him (and Gase would have been sh*t-canned).  But Peyton was already a HOF QB at that time.

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9 hours ago, Maxman said:

You just completely made my point. Tannehill played for several years before Gase. He was terrible under Gase. And he is fine now.

Darnold never had a chance to shine because Gase got him so early in his career.

He will be traded for a 2nd rounder and he will be okay elsewhere.

 

 

All they do is win, win, win (Dolphins’ Ryan Tannehill, with Adam Gase)

 

 

 

By Joe Schad

Posted Sep 19, 2018 at 12:01 AMUpdated Sep 20, 2018 at 9:06 PM

   

All they do is win, win, win, no matter what

And every time they step onto the field

Everybody hands go up

With a hat tip to DJ Khaled and Ludacris and friends, all Adam Gase and Ryan Tannehill do is win. Together.

Hands go up? Sure, like officials and fans, who more often than not are able to celebrate when Tannehill and Gase are on the same sideline, working together, on game days.

Don’t believe me?

Gase is 10-5 when Tannehill is under center. And 8-12 (including a playoff loss) when anyone else is.

Tannehill is 10-5 when Gase is his head coach and sort of not very good when others are. (Tannehill was 24-28 with Joe Philbin and 5-7 with Dan Campbell.)

“I think it’s just the cohesion of our two minds,” Tannehill said Wednesday. “We work really well together. We think alike. He’s constantly pushing me to get better, whether it’s something pre-snap, post-snap, during the play, a footwork thing or what to look at. He’s constantly just pushing little areas where I can get better. I love it. I love trying to push myself and being the best quarterback I can be.”

 

 

Tannehill said in a preseason interview that he wishes he was where he is now five years ago. That was a telling statement. Tannehill is an improved players, for many reasons.

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Notably, Tannehill has the full endorsement and support of a coach who took this job believing the quarterback would flourish running his plays, and with his coaching.

And though the Dolphins surely would have considered drafting a young quarterback in the last NFL Draft, Tannehill was led to believe he was the team’s starter this year, no matter what.

There is a lot to be said about working for someone who puts you in a position to succeed, who takes a vested interest and who has your back. To a large degree, Gase and Tannehill are attached, even though Gase essentially adopted his quarterback.

″(Ryan) makes sure that we complete the ones when they’re open,” Gase said this week. “His accuracy down the field is probably one of the better ones in the league, which I love saying considering that I was told he can’t throw the deep ball. I always like bringing that up.”

Photos: Miami Dolphins at New York Jets, Week 2

 

 

Gase smirked. Gase loves that Miami was predicted to be terrible this season. And so far, they’re not.

And he loves that people knock his quarterback. Because there’s pretty much nothing Gase enjoys in this world more than told-ya-so.

Tannehill is more reserved than Gase, but they’re both serious about their craft and cerebral in approach. And yes, Gase has brought a little more flair out of his quarterback, the more they’ve worked together.

Tannehill is showing more emotion. And seems to be enjoying his day-to-day existence.

“Just where I’m at in life now, how much gratitude I have after being away from the game for so long and just being able to do what I love, go out there every day, be around the guys, push the guys, try to make them the best they can be and then go out and compete on Sundays, it doesn’t get any better than that,” Tannehill said.

Tannehill was asked on Wednesday about the world sort of expecting the Dolphins to stink.

“I don’t know and I don’t really care, honestly,” Tannehill said.

 

 

The world sort of expects Tannehill to stink, except here’s the thing — he hasn’t.

Tannehill is 8th in the NFL in passer rating at the moment — one spot ahead of Tom Brady. And Tannehill is completing 73 percent of his passes, which is 5th in the NFL.

“And Tannehill’s scrambling ability is a winning edge for him,” Raiders coach Jon Gruden said Wednesday. “He can get out of trouble. They can create running plays. They can do a lot of different things with a quarterback that has this kind of athleticism.”

Getting back to winning. Over his last 10 NFL starts, Tannehill has a record of 9-1. Now some will say it’s lame to date back to 2016.

We say, no, it’s relevant and fair. When Gase and Tannehill are together, Miami wins. Why complain? They win.

“I think there was a little bit of a period of finding out what each other did well and how we could best push each other and push this offense and work together,” Tannehill said. “I think we kind of figured that out midway through 2016, then we started playing well and then unfortunately I got injury.”

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Why do we play? We play-to-win-the-game. So, which quarterbacks have the best records in the NFL in that previously-mentioned span?

Tannehill (9-1), Carson Wentz (9-1), Case Keenum (9-1), Tom Brady (8-2) and Jared Goff (8-2).

Wentz’s Eagles won the Super Bowl. Keenum got $36 million from the Broncos.

Brady is the G.O.A.T. And Goff is the young, rising star on a Super Bowl favorite team.

What’s Tannehill?

A guy who gets grief. A guy who, for some reasons, ends up as the butt of jokes. What if Gase and Tannehill — together — is good enough?

I mean, when they’ve been together, hasn’t it been?

 

 

Except he wasn't terrible under Gase.  He had a winning record under Gase on a bad team.  He has a better record now on a much better team.  He ws bad before Gase got to Miami.  He couldn't stay healthy, and stay on the field under Gase.

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4 hours ago, Dunnie said:

So you are saying that for any QB to look respectable the need the best everything.... w t f is wrong w you.

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