Jaguars Claim Dolphins Will Take Tannehill

[jtnc]

It’s unclear which team wants to trade down more: the Vikings at No. 3 or the Jaguars at No. 7.

For now, we’ll call it a tie.

Minnesota is trying its damnedest to drum up a market for the first pick after the top two picks, which barring the intervention of a bus, a lightning bolt, and/or a Biblical plague will beAndrew Luck and Robert Griffin III. The Jaguars, who widely are believed to be hoping to trade down from the seventh spot, are now openly selling the idea that the Dolphins will take quarterback Ryan Tannehill with the eighth pick in the draft.

Appearing on 930AM with Pete Prisco (via Tania Ganguli of the Florida Times-Union), Jaguars director of player personnel Terry McDonough said that “people know Miami’s going to take [Tannehill," and that "if a team wants a quarterbackthey're going to have to come in front of Miami."

And who's directly in front of Miami? The Jaguars.

That dynamic could help explain the Dolphins' aggressive and repeated denials of the reports that owner Stephen Ross wants Tannehill. If the Dolphins don't knock that one down, they're bolstering the notion that they'd take Tannehill -- and they're encouraging a team like the Seahawks at No. 12 to trade up five spots.

Conversely, if the Dolphins don't want Tannehill, they have every reason to create the impression that they do. If, after all, someone leapfrogs Miami to take a player the Dolphins don't want, it'll push someone the Dolphins actually want one spot farther down the board.

So if they want him, they should create the impression they don't. If they don't want him, they should create the impression they do.

Unless they're operating on a higher level of misdirection, which would entail creating the impression they don't want him and hoping that someone will interpret that to mean they do want him, when in reality they don't want him.

Jaguars want to trade down so bad, lol.

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[TylerVagyler]

this draft is getting ridiculous before it even starts

[frash.exe]

they're getting desperate to find someone to trade up to 7 that it's painfully obvious at this point and everybody knows they're bluffing

[KendrickPanther]

They are acting way to desperate.

[Dex]

lol Jags. Can smell their desperation from Connecticut.

[ladypanther]

Why would Seattle want Tannehill after they just got Flynn?

[Ivan The Awesome]

Of all the stupid things I've read today.

[Carl Spackler]

Why would anyone want Tannehill with a first round pick?

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Tannehill is Blaine Gabbet 2.0 but worse. Decent career but hyped up by experts only to fail later.

[CRA]

Tannehill is Blaine Gabbet 2.0 but worse. Decent career but hyped up by experts only to fail later.

I think he will be better than Gabbert but that isn't saying much. Gabbert and Clausen play scared....you can't fix that

[SOJA]

Gabbert is Clausen 2.0.....at least Tannehill has some potential

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

I think he will be better than Gabbert but that isn't saying much. Gabbert and Clausen play scared....you can't fix that

Yeah, I didn't mean game wise or anything I just meant the way the both seemed to creep up the draft board and some team in desperate need of a quarterback fell in love with them.

[PantherPhann89]

At least we're set at QB. Although I wouldn't mind Wilson as Cam's backup, but we've got a lot of other needs and I'm not big on short QB's.

[Marguide]

Minnesota, Jacksonville, and probably St. Louis are all trying their best to get someone to bite. That tells me the market is weak to non-existent.

Hopefully Marty has the good sense to stay put and not fall for this nonsense.