Ryan Tannehill

[laughs] That was a broken play, where he's sitting there trying to steer Chris, and Chris is working with him, you know.

So that type of communication, I don't know if that's something that we had seen very much with Tua, or we saw with, you know, Ryan Tannehill, or we've seen with many of our past quarterbacks.

And, you know, when you see the successful quarterbacks in the league, Patrick Mahomes, he's like a master at that, right? Um, also, uh, Josh Allen in Buffalo, he's kind of a master at that, right? Where they start running because a play has been broken up, but they can find that open receiver, or they can make something happen, you know.

So again, there's these encouraging signs that we just wanna see all of these things come together for one consistent game where we can get the victory, or we can score more than 13 points in a game, right? 'Cause we all know scoring 13 points ain't gonna win you-

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Matt Hasselbeck, and Ryan Tannehill, and what do they all have in common? They weren't drafted by this franchise.

Well, right, but that's also a league thing.

A little bit, uh, more now, right? But again, the point is what you're talking about is really a fan experience thing.

There was no home field advantage, all of those things.

When you go back and you look historically, it's pretty hard to find a situation where an established veteran starter in his prime is benched for a backup because he had a couple of bad games the only real example I could find was you go back to 2019 with the Titans Marcus Mariota um the team got off to a two and four start he was the established starter there high first round pick Ryan Tannehill replaces him in weeks uh seven and then he goes on takes him the AFC championship game but they they gave Mariota six games and then you go back to 2001 here in Seattle Dilfer Hasselbeck going back and forth But that was a rebuilding team.

This is a team that still has the ability to win another Super Bowl this year.

Once you take that genie out of the bottle, it is hard to get it back in.

Yeah.

Um, and then Ryan Tannehill, number eighth overall pick, won 2019 Comeback Player of the Year after being traded from the Dolphins to the Titans.

So those ones turned out okay.

Okay, I'm gonna list about a dozen that are not so good, and I'm gonna go through these fast.

And, you know, we thought last year, hey, maybe this guy's like the latest resurgence in a new team with a new coach and he just needed a fresh start.

Maybe he's kind of the next Ryan Tannehill, Sam Darnold, whatever.

But you've also then you got the Achilles tear, which people forget, like it takes time to look right after an Achilles tear, especially like his game probably relies a little bit more on mobility than, you know, a guy like an Aaron Rodgers or a Kirk Cousins.

But Kirk Cousins, he's dealing right now.

They kept the

Jags from going to the playoffs with that Derrick Henry, Ryan Tannehill, last Mike Vrabel game.

Didn't he have a big drop in that game?

If I remember correctly, I feel like there was a deep ball to Ridley that he just stone cold dropped.

I try and take a very positive outlook.

when the Dolphins are trying to find a new quarterback, be it when it was with Chad Henney or Ryan Tannehill or Tuatunga Valoa.

I'm on the side of the team and the quarterback, I'm hopeful, all right? I'm willing to have the hope.

And I felt the same way about Malik Willis, where I think this is going to be the guy.