NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Line them up like old-school Amtrak conductors: NFL national analysts, so many of whom punch holes in Ryan Tannehill the way the guys running trains punched holes in paper tickets.
The Titans quarterback is a success only because of Derrick Henry, they say, he can’t throw deep, he’s a product of the system, he lacks pocket awareness, he’s injury-prone.
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Pool photo: Alison McNabb, Tennessee Titans
Too many of his critics from too far a distance are unwilling to offer a revised opinion of Tennessee’s quarterback or discount his work for silly reasons.