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There is a lot of questions about Ryan Tannehill's long-term future with the Miami Dolphins but his head coach Adam Gase is sticking up for him.
“The first three games he played pretty good,” Gase said, responding to a reporter's assertion that Tannehill hasn't been better in 2018 than previous seasons via ESPN. “You're asking me that question and you don't even know what you're talking about. It's hard for me to defend anything when you don't know what you're talking about. You don't. I've watched the film. I sit there. We evaluate the scheme we're asking him to do and he does a good job on it.”
There were already questions about Tannehill's future with the team heading into the season and now with the injury and games missed this season, it seems to have raised even more questions.
Brock Osweiler has started the last three games and although the team's record isn't as good the offense has actually scored more under Osweiler. Osweiler has made it clear that when Tannehill comes back he would like to keep the job, but with Gase protecting Tannehill it's hard to imagine that the job wouldn't be handed back to him.
Gase also said that people outside the organization aren't seeing everything, and it's not all about wins, it's also about the process.
“That's how you look at things. Everything is results to you,” Gase said. “We're going through a process because that's what it is. That's what the season is. It's about trying to get guys to trend upward. We were headed in the right direction. We hit a speed bump with New England. Then Cincinnati, he was playing well and then we lose our left tackle and we make two bad decisions.”
Tannehill still has two years remaining on his contract with the Dolphins and with all the dead cap it's hard to see the team cutting him this offseason.
