Learn from the criticism

Tannehill would be wise to hear out Landry, Pouncey

This is about the pressure on Ryan Tannehill, how they’ve turned the locker room over to him and why it’s really — no, I really mean it this season — now or never for him. But I don’t want this to come off as just another rant about the Miami Dolphins quarterback situation.

I’ll repeat what I’ve said: Tannehill is good enough if those around him are good enough.

But Jarvis Landry’s shot fired from Cleveland this past week raises a point. And it’s not the direct point Landry raised, which is his new quarterbacks, Tyrod Taylor and Baker Mayfield, are better than “what I had in Miami,” as he said.

You never know how to take words of divorced players. Maybe Landy is right. Taylor has a better career passer rating (91.2) than Tannehill (86.5), and Mayfield, by all accounts, would have been a Dolphin if they’d had a chance to draft him.

Maybe Landry is wrong. Tannehill had a 93.6 rating in 2016 — and 100.7 in his final eight games before getting hurt. That’s beyond Taylor and more than Mayfield can be expected to do out of the blocks. Landry, later in the Cleveland interview, even said Tannehill was “good enough” to lead a winner.

But Landry wasn’t alone in taking a shot at Tannehill. Center Mike Pouncey said upon arriving in San Diego to play with an “elite guy” like quarterback Philip Rivers is “something I always dreamed of in my life.” This praise of Rivers has a