Very interesting blurb from Peter Kings Monday Morning QB on Tannehill and Jarvis Landry (who may be the perfect fit for this offense and Tennehills strengths): Three: Is Ryan Tannehill for real? Lately it sure looks like he is. I’m really interested in seeing Tannehill against a pressure defense tonight, even one without its best pressure player, Muhammad Wilkerson, who is out with a toe injury. I’m impressed with what the man picked six slots after Robert Griffin III is doing in his first year without Mike Sherman coaching him since 2007. True story: In his redshirt freshman year at Texas A&M, Sherman took over as coach, and Sherman coached Tannehill for four years in college and then as his offensive coordinator for his first two seasons in Miami. Philbin replaced Sherman with Lazor after the 2013 season ended with a profound offensive thud. A year ago, the Incognito-Martin brouhaha brewed for the second half of the season, and the offense struggled. Now, with a new offense and a no-hazing policy strictly enforced by Philbin, it’s a new world around the 6-5 Dolphins. It’ll be a struggle for them to make the playoffs, but with two games against the Jets and one with Minnesota on the slate, it’s at least possible. “A year ago,” Tannehill said over the weekend, “we were in a state of turmoil. Now our attitude is, We’re all in this together. We’re all equal. No rookie hazing. Nothing like that. On the football side, there was a pretty steep learning curve. I’ve been doing the same thing for a while, basically. It took me a while to get comfortable with our concepts, but I am now. I like it. There’s a lot more pre-snap shifting with coach Lazor. We’re going to call the plays, do some shifting and motion, and see what kind of pressure it puts on the defense. It’s a change for me, because we didn’t shift much under coach Sherman. But it helps us. You can see, every game, how it affects the defense.” I wondered about the accuracy, particularly in a new system. Last year, he was a 60.4-percent passer. This year, he is at 66.1 percent … and he has been over 70 percent in six of his last eight games. “In this system,” he said, “I just feel relaxed. I’m not always trying to make the perfect throws. And I’ve got great receivers. What I’m proud of is how we’ve improved in the red zone. We’d struggled at times time year, and then last week, at Denver, we were five for five in the red zone. That’s big for us.” The addition of Landry, Beckham’s buddy, has been big too. As with Beckham, the Dolphins see Landry make one-handed catches in practice all the time. “It’s funny,” Tannehill said. “We were on the plane in Denver last week, getting ready to take off, and we saw the highlights of the catch by Beckham. Everyone was talking about it. I was like, ‘Did that just happen?’ And I went to see Jarvis on the plane and said, ‘You gonna let him do that? You gotta do that!’ I’ve seen you make that catch.” Getting Landry in the second round will seem like a huge bargain if he starts being the kind of deep threat (he hasn’t been yet) that Beckham is with the Giants. “It’s only a matter of time,” Tannehill said. Miami, which has lost three games at the wire in the last two months, is going to be an interesting team to watch in December.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:42:18 +0000
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