Re: Franchise QB - Tannehill
Date: November 26, 2015 07:27AM
What is the point in playing Moore? He's got his own faults, I'm not sure if his combination of strengths and weaknesses will result in any more wins than Tannehill's do.
The reason people continue to harp on Tannehill is two fold. 1) Lots of people believe you need a franchise QB to win. I've written books on it lately, KB wrote a book about it in this thread. If that's what you believe, then that is obviously the most important problem to address. 2) There's obviously debate about it, some people disagree, so it is discussed.
Nobody is talking about the OL because it's understood that the OL ain't good. Nobody is talking about the LBs because it's agreed that they all suck and need to be replaced.
There's no point in talking about the 3rd down run that the Dolphins gave up to the Cowboys because nobody is surprised, its what we all expect. The only thing to be discussed regarding the defense is why any of us thought this defense would be great (not just good, lots thought it would be a great, dominating unit) before the year began. How could we have thought that knowing who is playing LB, knowing we only have two decent DB's in Jones and Grimes?
To Chryen's point - we need to replace a lot of players. Perhaps these mediocre and below players would be okay if they were platooned with a Pro Bowler here and there. Perhaps if we had a stud MLB, he would make such a difference that we wouldn't need to replace both OLBs. Not sure. I do know that we have three first round picks on our OL and despite that fact, our OL sucks because it's only as good as its weakest link.
So yes, we can look to replacing just about everybody on this team. I think Tannehill is the constant discussion because everybody agrees that the rest of the team is garbage.