Adam Gase’s three-year tenure in Miami never featured strong quarterback play, but two of his former starting gunslingers are enjoying resurgent seasons without Gase as their primary play-caller.

Ryan Tannehill, who played 24 games for Gase from 2016-18, is 2-1 for the Tennessee Titans since taking over for Marcus Mariota. Matt Moore only played eight games for Gase from 2016-17, but he’s stepped up nicely for the Kansas City Chiefs in place of the injured Patrick Mahomes.

As Joe Caporoso of TurnOnTheJets.com noted, Tannehill actually leads the league with a 71.8 completion percentage and has a career-high 99.7 passer rating. Tannehill led the Titans in back-to-back wins in his first two starts in Tennessee and brought the Titans back against the Panthers with a 13-point fourth-quarter in what ended up being a 30-20 loss. When Tannehill played for Gase, he completed 65.9 percent of his passes but only averaged 207.25 yards per game. After being traded this offseason to Tennessee, Tannehill is thriving.

Moore, meanwhile, had to step up when 2018 MVP Patrick Mahomes injured his knee in Week 7. Moore, who was actually a scout for the Dolphins this offseason, maintained the Chiefs’ lead in a win over the Broncos, went toe-to-toe with Aaron Rodgers in a one-score loss to the Packers in Week 8 and pulled out a close win over the Vikings in Week 9. He’s completed 65.6 percent of his passes, is averaging 219.7 yards per game and has thrown four touchdown passes without an interception. All of those numbers are significantly better than his eight games with Gase, in which he averaged a 61.9 completion percentage and 234.4 yards per game.

Tannehill and Moore haven’t changed as quarterbacks, but they are in much better offensive systems than when they played for Gase in Miami. Tannehill plays in an efficient run-heavy offense under Mike Vrabel in Tennessee, while Moore plays for Andy Reid in one of the most prolific passing offenses in the league.

The jury is still out on Vrabel as a head coach and Titans offensive coordinator Arthur Smith as a play-caller, but they’ve been able to maximize Tannehill’s skillset without too many weapons and turn the Titans into a competitive team.

While it is surprising how well Tannehill is playing in Tennesse, it isn’t terribly shocking to see Moore succeed in Kansas City with playmakers like Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelce and LeSean McCoy. Those are certainly the best weapons Moore will ever play with as a quarterback. Reid is also one of the best play-callers in the NFL and turned Alex Smith into a Pro Bowler and Mahomes into an MVP.

The real question is how is Jay Cutler faring in his post-Gase life? He came out of retirement to reunite with Gase in Miami for the 2015 season three years after the two joined forces in Chicago. Now, he’s enjoying his celebrity status on wife Kristen Cavallari’s reality TV show, far, far away from the football world.

Gase, meanwhile, is running the 1-7 Jets with one of the worst offenses in the league and a quarterback who continues to regress. He’s certainly no offensive genius, as shown by how well his former quarterbacks are playing without the shackles of his gameplan.