So obviously a lot of hot takes on our current QB situation and who is starting on Sunday Vs who should be but one thing keeps coming up that I just haven’t seen.
Where is this “Malik has supreme athleticism” coming from?
Maybe at Liberty, playing at that level of college ball, he looked like a Lamar-esque QB but I haven’t seen a trace of that with his snaps in the NFL.
He has trouble letting the ball fly which you don’t want from an NFL qb to begin with, but if he was making plays with his legs it would be somewhat forgivable, but he doesn’t. He generally looks like one of the slowest people on the field. He’s not juking anyone out of their shoes. He’s not breaking big runs when protection fails (which is far too often). Hell, he’s not evening beating d linemen in a foot race when it looks like he has the ground to get to the sideline and turn it upfield for a few yards.
So what am I missing?
I think it’s the same issue that he has with making throws—he’s not committing. He hesitates deciding to either throw or scramble rather than committing to one or the other. I think Lamar’s strength in scrambling is that once he decides to run, he commits everything to the run.