Tannehill shuts up EK for 1 week.

[Cathal]

It was definately offensive pass interference and it should have been called. Oh well. You don't get all of the calls. I guess the roughing the passer was karma for them missing that call.

[MaineDolFan]

One and only warning on this one ~

Bring down the tone towards each other or it gets locked.  Keep it about the game / player / etc, not about each other.

Thanks.

[EKnight]

One and only warning on this one ~

Bring down the tone towards each other or it gets locked.  Keep it about the game / player / etc, not about each other.

Thanks.

What did you expect from a thread that was titled with a member's name in it? The entire thing was "about each other." MikeO wonders why I don't post after a win, it's because it's never enough to keep conversations here in bounds of games and players- he starts with the childish name-calling and the thread degenerates from there. EVERY thread. It's why I stopped responding in this one yesterday.

Re. the call for hitting Tannehill, even the Dolphins reporters call it questionable. He got bailed out on it.

"Having said that, he got bailed out by a questionable roughing penalty that nullified perhaps his dumbest throw of the season — a throw against his body into a crowd that was intercepted. The penalty erased the interception from the stats, but not from memory."

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/26/3113591/grading-the-game-dolphins-vs-seahawks.html

Tannehill HIMSELF knew the call wasn't great- his quote on the officials in the game:

Tannehill chuckled when asked about the officials negating his turnover.
 
“They were looking out for me today,” he said.


-EK

[Spider-Dan]

MikeO wonders why I don't post after a win, it's because it's never enough to keep cinversations here in bounds of games and players- he starts with the childish name-calling and the thread degenerates from there.

That's the excuse you're using for why you were stone silent in Week 2?  Why you suddenly went M.I.A. in weeks 5, 6, and 8?

Maybe if you weren't so hyperactive in loudly proclaiming how much Tannehill sucks during every loss, people wouldn't feel the need to rub it in your face after every win.  In fact, had you not pulled a disappearing act after the wins earlier in the season, this entire "EK only shows up after a loss" theme would never have been created.

[Pappy13]

I'm not discounting the fact that the call bailed him out, I'm just saying that the call was the correct call based on the rules and it happens from time to time with all QB's including Seattle's. The pass to Tate that set up Seattle's first TD could have been called OPI too, Tate was bailed out by the refs by NOT throwing a flag on that one in my opinion. If you want to call Tannehill lucky on the one play then you have to admit that Tate was lucky as well and if you take away both TD's, you could have ended up with the same result, Miami still wins with a FG at the end of regulation. That's how the game of supposition works. You can't simply say "Suppose that call isn't made, then Seattle wins" without acknowledging the other possibilities as well. At least not without being unbiased about it.

Now forgetting for a moment all this supposition stuff, suppose we just focus on what ACTUALLY happened. Tannehill brought the team from behind TWICE in the 4th quarter to tie the game and then drove the Dolphins for the game winning FG. That's a HUGE accomplishment which you have YET to acknowledge. Earlier in the year there was a couple of posts where people talked about how they needed to see that from Tannehill, well now they have. Anyone who is being unbaised about Tannehill HAS to recognize that was a pretty important step. It's ONLY a step, no one is claiming this now means that Tannehill is the savior, it just means that it's a step in the RIGHT direction. For me that's enough because that's ALL this year is about, a step in the right direction. For you to continue to argue against it is baseless since only the week before you were claiming that Tannehill snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the 4th quarter. Well he didn't THIS GAME. This game he played well in the 4th quarter. I don't know if it will EVER happen again, but you have to admit that it happened ONCE. The ability is there to lead the team to a come from behind victory. Now we just have to see it again.

Admit that, if you can.

[EKnight]

I admit it was a step in the right direction. No doubt. 100% absolutely. BUT- and this is a big but- it doesn't excuse the fact that he was playing one of his WORST games up to that point, and made some horrbile decisions. The run game absolutely carried him in the fourth quarter until the last drive, but everyone is acting like RT played a perfect quarter. Not so. Bush and Thomas had nearly a third of their rushing yards in that quarter. And starting a thread solely for the purpose of "calling out" another member is why so many of these threads end up in personal attacks. -EK

[Fins4ever]

Sorry, I got to agree with EK on this one. Tanne sucked for 3 quarters and if not for that bogus call that negated his interception,he would have single handedly lost this game for us. I am glad we won and give Tanne credit for a couple good drives at the end of the game. Tanne gets credit for good 1 quarter of play. 1 quarter of play does not a make a full game and will not win games in this league. If he can get consistent with it, great. But that garbage they put on the field today is nothing to go around celebrating.

Agree with most..... Fins got lucky on that call and while RT made some good plays, he also made some bad decisions. It comes with being a rookie.

Maybe I give the Seahawks too much credit, but I think the Fins had a good outing against one of the leagues better defenses....esp. running the ball and stopping the run.

[EKnight]

That's the excuse you're using for why you were stone silent in Week 2?  Why you suddenly went M.I.A. in weeks 5, 6, and 8?

Maybe if you weren't so hyperactive in loudly proclaiming how much Tannehill sucks during every loss, people wouldn't feel the need to rub it in your face after every win.  In fact, had you not pulled a disappearing act after the wins earlier in the season, this entire "EK only shows up after a loss" theme would never have been created.

Let's revisit shall we?

Week 5 I STARTED a thread about Tannehill. No one responded. Not my fault. Not MIA:

http://www.thedolphinsmakemecry.com/forums/index.php?topic=20664.0

The week after the Rams loss, in the Tannehill thread, wherein I AGREED with you:

http://www.thedolphinsmakemecry.com/forums/index.php?topic=20686.15

And the "Tied for first place thread"

http://www.thedolphinsmakemecry.com/forums/index.php?topic=20723.0

And gee...wonder why I didn't post in the thread for the Jets game? I counted 3 separate posts from MikeO that were blatant name-calling attacks on me, in a thread that I wasn't taking part in. Landshark is forever telling us to "cut the drama," but I can't win, can I? If I don't respond to MikeO's baiting, then I'm MIA or only come around for a loss. If I DO respond, then it's my fault there's drama. Obviously, you're wrong about me not posting after wins, because I just linked some of the threads I DID post in, and I just gave you the reason I didn't post in the Jets thread. I didn't create these links. They are what they are. Let's not twist history, when I can provide what actually happened. -EK

[Pappy13]

And starting a thread solely for the purpose of "calling out" another member is why so many of these threads end up in personal attacks. -EK

I've tried to reason with you on at least a dozen threads about Tannehill, but you'll have none of it. You lobbed the first grenade with the post about Tannehill "sucks" and how you called it and how you didn't care what anyone here thought about you. That was after I had made several attempts to ask you to tone it down on Tannehill. Well I've grown tired of asking politely so I returned the favor and lobbed a grenade of my own. I didn't think you would really mind that much seeing as how you couldn't care less what anyone on these forums thinks about you. Yeah, in hindsight it wasn't maybe the smartest thing I've ever done, but in my opinion you've got what you deserved. Payback is a bitch.

I'll drop it now, but I didn't start this, I only continued it. For that I apologize.

[EKnight]

I've tried to reason with you on at least a dozen threads about Tannehill, but you'll have none of it. You lobbed the first grenade with the post about Tannehill "sucks" and how you called it and how you didn't care what anyone here thought about you. That was after I had made several attempts to ask you to tone it down on Tannehill. Well I've grown tired of asking politely so I returned the favor and lobbed a grenade of my own. I didn't think you would really mind that much seeing as how you couldn't care less what anyone on these forums thinks about you. Yeah, in hindsight it wasn't maybe the smartest thing I've ever done, but in my opinion you've got what you deserved. Payback is a bitch.

I'll drop it now, but I didn't start this, I only continued it. For that I apologize.

Pappy, that's cool. I have no issue with it. But in all fairness, a mod can't expect a thread like this to NOT end up  in personal attacks, which, btw, you'll note I had nothing to do with. It's just my opinion, but I see a clear difference between thread A: "Tannehill sucks, blah, blah, blah," and thread B: "Tannehill shuts up a member." -EK

[Spider-Dan]

Yeah, "I couldn't post because people would have said mean things" is not even close to an excuse.

The reason why this thread exists is because of the enormous volumes of anti-Tannehill trash you have been talking after every loss (starting with declaring him a failed pick at HALFTIME OF THE FIRST GAME), followed by invisibility or a few paltry lines of grudging left-handed compliments after a win.

The fact that you are a prolific poster after every loss but much more subdued after each win is something that one would expect from a fan of another team, not a fan of the Dolphins.  It seems like your perspective is, if there's nothing negative to say about Tannehill, there's not much worth talking about.

[EKnight]

Spider, I don't expect you to follow how often I do or don't post, but if you had, you would have noticed I don't post in ANY of the boards as frequently, irrespective of the outcome of Dolphins games. Has nothing to do with any player/team performance. I just don't frequent the boards as much. You're making something out of nothing here. You flat said I disappeared after the losses and I showed you otherwise. You were wrong. There's nothing more to discuss. -EK

[MaineDolFan]

Agreed.  There isn't anything left to discuss in this thread.