To Bench or Not to Bench?

Jimmy Bourbon

10 years ago

The silent chatter about benching Ryan Tannehill, has increased to a more loud talking level, and is quickly approaching a deafening screaming level. On Monday Philbin declined to comment on whether Tannehill would start or not against Oakland this upcoming Sunday in London. Some sports betting software like Ace Per Head fans would like to read deeply into this, however if anyone knows Philbin, then they know he does not comment on any of those types of internal team decisions to the media.

The better guess is that Philbin sticks with Tannehill for a few more games, and then makes his decision after that. However, if Philbin decides to pull the trigger now, and bench Tannehill, then this would all but seal Tannehill’s fate as the team’s franchise QB. Tannehill has not played well in his first 3 games, but he has also not played terrible enough to warrant a benching yet. In 3 games he has only thrown 2 interceptions, so I would not really consider that a QB that is making terrible decisions and needs to be benched. His biggest problem seems to be his accuracy, which is a bit of a head scratcher, because besides the deep ball he has proven to be a pretty accurate QB in his first two seasons in the league. If I had to guess, a large part of the accuracy problem is probably from Tannehill having to learn a new offense for the first time in his career. Also this offense has a lot more timing routes where the QB is throwing to spots compared to Sherman’s previous offense.

In addition the Dolphins are 1-2, and have lost their last two games by playing down right terribly, and unfortunately for Tannehill, the QB is the number one scapegoat when a team is not winning or playing well. Besides Tannehill not playing up to expectations, the receivers are leading the league in drops, and the defense can not defend against the run or tackle ball carriers. The special teams is probably the worst of the bunch because it lost some of its key contributors from last season, due to being cut or players being moved to a starting role on the defense because of significant injuries to previous starters. So to put the Dolphins poor performance squarely on Tannehill’s shoulders is not entirely fair, because this is a team sport and as a team they have not played well in many different aspects of the game.

I am not sure if a trip across the pond is going to change the way the Dolphins have been playing lately, but something needs to be done quickly, because if this team does not improve in all facets of the game, then this season will be a lost cause and Tannehill and Philbin will be the first two scape goats to be shown the door. Tannehill has to start showing improvement in his game, but he also needs his teammates to start helping him out by catching balls thrown at their hands, and the defense and special teams need to start tackling better. If the Dolphins are going to turn this season around, then they need the whole team, including the coaching staff to start improving.

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