By Omar Kelly Sun Sentinel

3:11 p.m. EST, December 17, 2012

Ryan Tannehill put together his best performance as the Miami Dolphins starting quarterback during Sunday's 24-3 win over Jacksonville, and he did it with one arm figuratively tied behind his back.

Davone Bess, the team’s slot receiver since 2008, missed his first NFL game on Sunday. That meant Tannehill was forced to make the best of what was already perceived as a talent-strapped receiving corp.

We’re talking tailbacks – Reggie Bush and Marcus Thigpen - lining up as receivers.

We’re talking Marlon Moore starting his first NFL game.

We’re talking newly signed receiver Armon Binns, who was claimed last week and practiced with the team for all of three sessions, playing flanker.
We're talking Brian Hartline blanketed by a receiver and safety for the first half of the game.

None of that stopped Tannehill from carving up a mediocre Jaguars defense ...

The Dolphins rolled Tannehill out more. They also used a quarterback option to help create favorable down-and-distances for the offense.

"He managed the clock and used his feet to get key first downs to keep the chains moving," Moore said of the difference he saw in Tannehill.

Tannehill attacked the middle of the field consistently for the second straight game.

Many of Tannehill's incompletions were either drops (four) or passes that got broken up (one). That's a step in the right direction for a quarterback with accuracy problems (58.7 percent
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Blossoming? Man these writers switch superlatives every week on how to describe his play.

That being said, with Bess out it forced Tanny to look to other receivers and that's something I wanted to see. He used his feet more in this one to create more opportunity for the receivers to get open .... and that's also something I've been begging for Sherman to do.

There were a couple of TD drops in this one that would've made Tanny's number even better and it was nice to see him not playing down to the competition. That said, it's the Jags. I want to see how he does when we play the Pats again.

Good Lord, they beat the Jags....the putrid Jags.....featuring our castaway QB.

Former New York Giants star quarterback Phil Simms, who was the MVP of Super Bowl XXI, spoke glowingly of Miami Dolphins rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill on Wednesday.

"It's been a very successful year for him and the Dolphins," Simms said on The Sid Rosenberg Show (640-AM).

"I was watching [Tannehill] play against the San Francisco 49ers and I just remember saying, 'Wow.' He just really had a presence about him," said Simms, who has two Super Bowl rings.
"I thought he handled himself well," said Simms, an analyst for CBS. "I just remember thinking, 'Boy, it's been a real successful year for Tannehill.' That's just how I feel.

"I think the Dolphins did the right thing and they've got this team going in the right direction. Now it's just about putting players around him and continuing to build around the quarterback."

Phil gives Tannehill more praise than Eli

Hey , lets call it the signature win of the season.

I'll call it that. Simply because the Jags have our castoff QB starting for them. If Jax comes down and wins that game.... and more importantly if Henne had a good game carving up the Dolphin secondary, the fallout would've been IMMENSE.

In the last 4 games he has 4 TD's and 1 interception. He is progressing. I'd love to see him throw more than 2 TD's in a game one time this year. Lets see how he finishes up the last 2 games of the year.

Averaging 1 TD a game in that span is progress? Two of them came vs. arguably one of the crappiest teams in the league.

He's kept the INT's down lately which is good.

In the last 4 games he has 4 TD's and 1 interception. He is progressing. I'd love to see him throw more than 2 TD's in a game one time this year. Lets see how he finishes up the last 2 games of the year.

Nah ....

The downside was certainly catastrophic if we lost. But beating them has very little upside since they are a terrible terrible team. You can draw nothing from such a boring win.