Miami Dolphins Keep Firing Coaches, But They're Stuck with Ryan Tannehill
By Jason McIntyre
After the Dolphins were embarrassed (again) by the Jets, Miami made another coaching move: Offensive coordinator Bill Lazor was fired. Earlier this season, when Miami was pounded by the Jets in London, the Dolphins fired head coach Joe Philbin.
Miami can replace coaches, and they can try and upgrade the wide receivers (Kenny Stills was acquired from New Orleans in the offseason; he had 85 targets in 15 games last year, but only has 46 this season), and they’ll probably tinker with the offensive line in the offseason.
One thing Miami can’t fix? Ryan Tannehill. It lavished a $96 million contract on him in the offseason (“only” $45 million is guaranteed) and that was before he even got to a playoff game. Hell, he’s never guided the Dolphins above .500 in the regular season.
But because there’s a dearth of QBs in the NFL, Miami paid him. And now they’re stuck with him for at least one more season.
His QBR seemed to peak last year at 58.0 – he had a career-high in TDs (27), career-low in INTs (12) and also career-highs in rating (92.8) and completion percentage (66.4). Way to perform in that contract year, kid.