BREAKING: Vikings, Ryan Tannehill in negotiations to be QB2

[MaroonBells]

This could be interesting...I didn't realize he was a FA.

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This was last September before the season started...
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Report: Ryan Tannehill will return only for the perfect opportunity
ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports
Sun, Sep 8, 2024

Free agent quarterback Ryan Tannehill is not retired, but he is in no rush to return to the field, either.

Tannehill would need the perfect opportunity to play this season, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network.

That would include the team reaching out to him being a playoff contender in need of a quarterback, having a strong offensive line and offensive weapons, and offering him the kind of money he's looking for.

Essentially, Tannehill would like to follow in the footsteps of Joe Flacco, who signed with the Browns last year only after Deshaun Watson had been lost to a season-ending injury. Flacco ended up starting for the Browns and helping them get to the playoffs.

Will that kind of opportunity arise for Tannehill? It's possible, but there's no guarantee that any team checking all of his boxes will call. If it doesn't happen, the 36-year-old Tannehill may have played in his last NFL game.

I know just the team.

[pattersaur]

I hadn’t thought of the comp pick factor. Smart by the Vikings to leverage Jones and now possibly Tannehill to skirt some of the comp pick tax. Reminds me a little bit of the Pats dynasty, how they’d find ways around rules. Granted they were usually cheating, but at times when they weren’t, they’d find a loophole and exploit it brilliantly. I believe they were the first team to start declining penalties in order to run clock, for instance (before the league and other teams caught on).

[RS_Express]

Looks like Kwesi listened last year when he got dragged all over every kind of media for costing us a comp pick with the Shaq Griffin signing just before the deadline.

As for Tannehill himself... meh. As a #2 he'll do. If he has to start more than 1 game at a time, we're in #2.

[JR44]

I am good with anyone not named Aaron Rodgers, think we would have been better off keeping Mullens, but Tannehill would be a good fit.

[StickierBuns]

As for Tannehill himself... meh.  As a #2 he'll do. If he has to start more than 1 game at a time, we're in #2.

But so is any other team playing their #2 for any length of time.