Ryan Tannehill Is Going To Breakout This Time We Swear
And now our good friend Ryan Tannehill has finally, finally begun his journey into the realm of the journeyman backup, where he was always meant to be. Unless you think he’s going to breakout. Unless you think he’s a star. Unless things happen as they have never happened.
It feels like it took this long purely because the Dolphins kept trying to make Ryan Tannehill happen. Ryan Tannehill would do just enough to maybe show flashes of a not mediocre to below average QB every year, and the Dolphins would keep him around. Every year, you’d see at least a few Phinheads predict that this year, Ryan Tannehill was going to take that next step. Ryan Tannehill never took that next step. Ryan Tannehill was on a treadmill the whole time. I don’t know this for sure but it feels like he was the longest tenured Dolphins QB since Marino. At least in terms of how long he was the designated starter, even though he spent over a season’s worth of time on IR.
I’m pretty happy about the Phins moving on. Ryan Tannehill was about as exciting as a pile of clay. Maybe the Dolphins will be interesting again this season. They just signed our favorite curse, Ryan Fitzpatrick. That makes this a very unusual situation! Ryan Fitzpatrick is currently the number 1 QB for the fish, he doesn’t have anyone to curse yet. I assume this means the Dolphins will draft a QB, start Fitz, Fitz will suck, new QB will start, new QB will get hurt, Fitz will come in, you know the drill.
This is also a solid move for the Titans, at least for this one year. The Titans gave up a 4th and a 7th and got a 6th as well as Tanny back. Tannehill might not be the answer, but he’s definitely one of the better options at backup in the league. Mariota hasn’t been the healthiest boy so some quality insurance here was necessary. Insurance that isn’t named Blaine Gabbert. Mariota is also a boy on the perpetual verge of a breakout season (same as his draft buddy Jameis, who we may finally know about for sure under Arians this year) so him and Tannehill can sit and discuss all their problems together as they ice up their injuries sustained walking into the locker room.
I predict Ryan Tannehill will play for…5 teams before he retires. I expect him to not last on the Titans past the 2019 season. I assume he will get some playing time this year, look good, and convince some team to pay him a bit to potentially start next year. He will be on that team for a couple seasons, then get cut, end up on a bottom feeder for a bit, and then finish his career as a backup behind a franchise QB and never sees playtime. Honestly, not a bad career all things considered. Plenty of money, only a few lifelong lingering injuries.
So with the news from the AAF, when does Johnny & the King return?
Checked the stats, and he has 88 Games for the Dolphins, the most for a QB since Marino. The next most is Jay Fiedler with 62. There are 2 QBs with more games than Tannehill but less than Marino, Don Strock with 163 and Bob Griese with 161.
Maybe the Dolphins are trying something sneaky with our dear man Fitz.
They could be hoping that Fitz must have ‘gotten so good with his curse’ that it’s preemptively activated on Tannehill, pushing him into a backup job/ruining his career and gifting Fitz the starting job right away, without the two of them being on the same roster at the same time ever. With that done, the Dolphins go and get their QB of the future in the coming draft.
So Fitz will be the starter out of the gate. He plays well enough per his cycle for the Dolphins to be just good enough to sniff a wild-card spot(but not actually get it). Meanwhile, the new guy sits behind ‘learning the ropes’. Come the 2020 season, Fitz re-negotiates for a fatter paycheck for his second year. To the surprise of all(except those of us wary of Fitz’s curse), the Phins cave in fairly easily and give him that bigger one-year contract(not big enough for the Money Wars though). As expected, he sucks massively. However, the Dolphins are strangely in no hurry. They give Fitz enough time to dump all over the field and roll over his mess until the season is irreparably damaged and they are mathematically knocked out of the running. When that happens, they pull him out and finally insert their man of the future… who doesn’t have a career to be damaged yet. It’s all on him and his own talents now. Rather, suddenly pulling Fitz out and replacing him with this new guy in his 2nd year with no tape will shake up the opposition and let him get an easy few wins, making him look like a great rookie and raising the hopes of Dolphins fans. As soon as the season ends, Fitz is kicked to the curb while new guy is officially crowned starter for the (hopefully bright) future.
Is it possible that the Phins have finally managed to figure out the system and get out of the Fitzpatrick curse cycle unscathed while possibly getting themselves a reliable starting QB?
Only time will tell.
First thing for this wild scenario to go smoothly is for the Phins to actually draft a decent/good QB prospect. Which… doesn’t seem very likely given their draft position at #13. There are other QB-needy teams, there aren’t as many eye-opening QB prospects as with the last draft and #13 just won’t cut it. Of course, however, there’s always the option of selling the whole farm to get within the first 3 draft picks…
The Dolphins are tanking for Tua
If they’re trying to speed up the cycle by getting rid of the established starter and paying Fitz, doesn’t that just mean he’s going to suck immediately?
I think he want 6-0 with the Bills with his first starting job and then lost like 9 in a row when they paid him? It might be coming back around with Miami!
The problem with Tannehill isn’t that he is mediocre to terrible. He was for the most part, solid enough when healthy, which is saying something. The problem is that whenever the Phins had a shot at something, he would crumble like Andy Dalton in prime time. The only reason Miami made the playoffs in 2016 is Tannehill got hurt and Matt Moore started the last two weeks. Also, he never seemed to develop. He showed as much last season as he did as a rookie. In 2012 that was enough to get you excited. In 2018, it was enough to getyou fed up after over half a decade of the same. I don’t know if this is all Tannehill. Maybe his floor always was his ceiling. Maybe Philbin sabotaged his development. I do know he was a tough guy for us. The offencive line was never good while he was with us, for all that he wasn’t the best in the pocket. So long Tanny. Hope you can enjoy a full year of not getting sacked.
The next Derrick Anderson you say?
DA WAS DA BEST BACKUP QB IN DA NFL SINCE 2011………
While not great, Tanny didn’t exactly have great coaching. Gase seemed to flat out refuse to use good players when they were getting hot and often coached the team to look mediocre as if that was the next best thing to a SB win. In the right system, he could play well. But franchise QB he is not. Good move by the Titans I guess.
Remember when Tannehill was so bad in practice he started pissily telling guys who picked him off to “enjoy their practice squad checks”. Yeah I don’t think THAT GUY was ever going to develop into a good quarterback.
I think Gary Kubiak was the best pro qb to come out of Texas A&M.
That was some dipshit who picked him off during a walkthrough. Meaning when everyone is working at half speed and everyone knows exactly what the other side is doing.
Cian Fahey is going to be so happy you made a comic about him.
Tannehill is responsible for the greatest sports gif of all time, change my mind.
https://imgur.com/KBFpkDi
That’s not the four angle buttfumble.
Overconfident Jeremy Shockey is still my favorite:
http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1024070/e25edbf0fddc.gif
OK, that’s pretty fantastic.
Ill go on record as saying this.
Miami will score more points over 16 regular season games this year with Fitzmagic than the Titans will score with Ryan Tannehill.
And its entirely possible Fitz, despite being 6 years older, may actually play more games as hes not made of a wet toilet paper like Tannehill. He’s been the Floridian Sam Bradford his entire time in Miami. Fitzmagic is an upgrade.
He hadn’t missed a game before 2016. He’s made of wet tissue paper now, but he was an iron man for his first few years in Miami.
Standard for a lot of QB’s. Teddy Bridgewater is a good comparison. One bad injury but nobody takes a risk after that. Alas Miami had devoted a shedload of cap space into the Tannehill-o-beans and well, since 2016 he’s been Sam Bradford with less accuracy.
What if the Fitzpatrick curse breaks the Marino curse. Fitzpatrick Superbowl MVP next year calling it.
Ill take a pint of whatever this guy was drinking. In fact make it a few pints. Hell I wont care how bad the Eagles get this season after a few of those.
Lol, this comic is funnier looking back now
A modern day Nostradamus
So this actually aged well… Like a fine wine.
this is one of the funny ones to look back on