“He’s ahead of where I thought he’d be,” Mike Sherman said, via David Hyde of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. “I always want him to be better and better. But he’s doing things now you expect in the fifth or sixth year for a quarterback.”

The guy who quickly is becoming the franchise’s best quarterback since Dan Marino reminds Sherman of another Miami Hall of Famer.

“He’s off-the-charts smart,” Sherman said. “He’s a Bob Griese-type of quarterback mentally.”

Sherman compared Tannehill to another Hall of Famer which whom Sherman, the former Packers head coach, is somewhat familiar. “He doesn’t hold onto the previous play,” Sherman said. “Brett Favre was the same way. He wasn’t worried about the last interception. After an interception, a lot of guys are hoping you call a run. He wants to pass.”

The Miami Dolphins head into their bye week with a 3&3 record and a share of the AFC East lead. The team has transitioned from a power running team last year into a west coast offense this year, lead by rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill. Tannehill, however, is running the offense unlike any rookie before him.

SI.com's Peter King wrote in his Monday Morning Quarterback that the Dolphins are currently leading the NFL in use of the no-huddle offense. The team, according to King and STATS, Inc., ran the no-huddle on 58.9% of their snaps through Week 5 of the season. And, King goes on to explain, the Dolphins are highly effective in it, averaging nearly a yard more per play on no-huddle plays than when they do huddle.

King goes on to use fellow rookie quarterback Andrew Luck to emphasize his point. Luck ran 13 no-huddle plays in the Indianapolis Colts' Week 5 win over the Green Bay Packers. King writes that Colts coach Bruce Arians explained that running no-huddle plays at that rate is something Peyton Manning did not do until this third or fourth year in the league.

All preseason, the talk around Dolphins camp was the tempo of practice. The offense was looking to get to the line of scrimmage fast and run around 90 offensive plays a game. While the team is still rushing to the line of scrimmage, offensive coordinator Mike Sherman explained during his press conference Monday that wearing out the defense is not the main focus right now.

"It's not tempo because we're not snapping the ball as fast as I would like at this point," Sherman explained. "It's more his ability to see what the defense is deploying and get us into the right protection or the right check. He's not threatened by the clock as much as if he were in the huddle. You'd probably have to take eight to ten seconds off the clock, so he's snapping the ball at about ten seconds, maybe sometimes eight. Sometimes even lower than that. His ability to be able to make some schematic decisions to put us in the best situation possible is enhanced by us being at the line of scrimmage sooner."

Below, you will find the previous ratings for Philbin. Make sure you vote in the poll, and if you haven't yet, vote in the two polls linked above to make sure you get in your view on Ross and Ireland.

May 2012: 82%
June 2012: 85%
July 2012: 86%
August 2012: 83%
September 2012: Omitted

Below you will find the previous results from Ireland's approval ratings. Make sure you vote in the poll as well, and, if you haven't vote in the Stephen Ross poll, follow the link to that as well.

May 2012: 65%
June 2012: 73%
July 2012: 66%
August 2012: 40%
September 2012: Omitted

Sherman's not doing anything some people here aren't. Just sayin'.

Definitely. Some of the posts I see about Tannehill (not necessarily here, but certainly on FH and other sites) are insane.

Whoa whoa WHOA...back it up there!!! YOU actually VISIT FINHEAVEN?!?! You'd be as out of place there as a black man at a KKK meeting, what's up with that???