Ryan Tannehill was bad on Sunday versus the New England Patriots. His 11 for 20, 100 yard, 1 Interception outing with a 47.9 Passer Rating is among his worst in his career. So the cliché you are gonna hear this week, is “How is he gonna respond after this?” If history tells us anything, he should bounce right back.

Ryan Tannehill has a career average Passer Rating of 87.1. Under Adam Gase, he has had games under that mark five times. Following those games he averages a Passer Rating of 102.6. In those games, the Dolphins are 2-2. Now, if you dig a little deeper and strictly go to the disaster games he has had under Head Coach Adam Gase (of which this was one), you find only three games where his passer rating dropped in excess of 10 or more points past his career average. One of those games was the opener in Seattle in 2016, where he scored what should have been the game winning touchdown, before the Defense then allowed a Russell Wilson game winning drive.

If you count that game, the passer ratings following these disaster games were 93.5 versus New England, (after that Seattle game), 97.4 versus the Steelers following a loss to the Titans, and a 124.0 outing versus the Cardinals (the last game he played in 2016) following a debacle in Baltimore. Two of those opponents (Patriots and Steelers) met in the AFC Championship game that year. The other, (Arizona Cardinals) were a year removed from 13-3 and a NFC Championship game berth.

The one consistency between these big bounce back games, is his penchant to attack the deeper part of the field and play more aggressively. In those three games, he had 9 passes completed of more than 20 air yards, and attempted another 6. So if these trends hold up, we can expect Ryan Tannehill to indeed bounce back from his debacle in New England, and not only play well, but be more aggressive.

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Alfredo Arteaga is the Co-Host of the 3 Yards Per Carry Podcast along with Simon Clancy and Chris Kouffman on the Five Reasons Sports Network.

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