Okie doke folks, draft day is coming up...and there is this thing that is troubling me. This thing is Ryan Tannehill, first of all people are raising his stock because he is impressing scouts with combine stunts and drills. This is the whole thing, pros and TV personalities all say the same thing about Tebow being a "bad QB", which they may be right, but his athleticism is impressive none the less. I'm guessing NFL scouts must think he'll produce these epic moments of Tebow-ism considering the fact that Ryan's first position is athlete, not Quarterback.
What people don't get is once you hit the NFL, quarterback takes about forty steps up from college. Now some quarterbacks are anomalies and have the skills (Mike Vick, Cam Newton, Ben Roethlisberger) to produce at a higher level, but the ones who have the knowledge and only use college ball to improve this skilled position are the ones that find success in the NFL.
The other thing is people forget, that football is a team sport. The good teams are balanced in all aspects. For instance the New York Giants, they have great line play, a Manning at QB, good Wide Receiver, good Tight Ends, and a Balanced Running attack. Offensively they are amazingly balanced, then you look at the Defensive side of the ball and you highlight their strengths at Defensive line. Their one true weakness is the coverage in the backfield, but even then they still won the Super Bowl, and they have developing talent back there with Prince Amukamura. The thing is most of the good teams are balanced, and it seems to be coincidental that their QBs are good, or to put in better terms the QB position is balanced on that team.
So with this Tannehill kid people are acting like he's going to bring balance with the Dolphins, but the thing is they have Matt Moore, who was better than Jimmy Clausen (who was suppose to be good out of college). I mean are they going to develop him under Matt Moore and let him sit, or is he going to be a wide receiver? The whole thing is fishy and it seems like the Dolphins are wrecking what was set up for them by Bill Parcells, the philosophy of "Hawk the ball on Defense, and Run or confuse the other team on Offense".
I don't know what is going to happen for this guy's career, but all I can say is he is not from the SEC, his athletescism is his key attribute, and you didn't see Texas A&M dominating the BCS during the Tannehill era. If he somehow becomes starter in the middle of the season and proves me wrong by taking the Dolphins to a 10-6 record then I guess I'll be looking like a retard, but I'm more interested in Andrew Luck or RG3, or even Trent Richardson (because the Browns need a new RB and he has qualities I like).
Better luck next time Dolphins, but it was hard for your franchise to Lose for Luck. I guess there is always Matt Barkley in a year or so.
