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Originally Posted by Rain Man
What the heck are you doing? Tannehill is breaking every record in the back, and he's Tannehill.
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Perfect storm stuff, really. I built the team in the initial player draft around a slew of young WRs and an athletic OL that specializes in pass-blocking (in fact Billay even warned me that I'd come begging for Wilson to throw the ball to all these young wideouts). My plan was to suck in year 1 and get my QB and then I fell ass-backwards into Ryan Tannehill.
Then in 2020 Davis was excellent, McLaurin was a strong #2 and Curtis Samuel had the kind of year that people kept waiting for him to have (volume held him back but on a rate basis he was outstanding). And Jonnu broke out to boot. And Tannehill was one of the most efficient passers in the league in '20. I didn't expect this out of him, but I made a really aggressive offer for Russell Wilson in the off-season and then pulled it back because the more I dug around, the more convinced I was that Tannehill was actually a hell of a quarterback and maybe damn near a carbon copy of Russ.
So suddenly everything came together for a year. And honestly, the team isn't THIS good - my schedule has been pretty easy. I've had probably 6 games against dead teams and I've rolled over them all. I've only really flattened one competitive squad - the rest have been pretty nip/tuck. And it won't be this good next season either, I haven't had nearly the depth of premier performances from my WR corps in 2021. But for 2020, it just worked.
Bottom line is that I built the team to be exactly this kind of team and then it came together better than even I ever expected it to. And again - it's not this good. I think Nashville is a better overall team and Billay's group is harder to gameplan for than mine is.
If I'm betting, I still put my money on CD to win this thing. That's a really good squad.
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Originally Posted by Titty Meat
He hardly runs the ball and has an offensive line that doesnt give up sacks. His defense isnt elite but far from bad.
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The defense is pretty outstanding, but I sure as shit can't seem to figure out how to deal with your boys. Finally did some work against your run game last time out and then decided to not cover Antonio Brown. It's designed to be a unit that complements my offense and for the most part it's worked out, but it's also had some real stinkers out there.
But you're right about my OL - man it's been ridiculous. Giving up all of 13 sacks in over 700 drop-backs is just ridiculous. A 15.5% pressure rate is just another example of a plan coming together but coming together FAR better than I expected it to.