This isn’t even about the booing (I don’t boo my own team) but about the value of bringing Malik in a few times per game. I noticed it on his run in the second half. If you watch the sideline, you can see that Levis is getting some intense coaching during that play. My guess is the reason Levis hasn’t played much thus far is that he’s still growing into the playbook, and it seems like they’re using Malik to give themselves a minute to explain to Levis what they’re seeing on the drive and how he needs to react. That will probably decrease as Levis gets a better command of the offense, but it seems like a good use of both guys. (I like Malik as a person so I hope he can develop into a career backup for someone, even if it’s not us, but having two cheap QBs would be really good for us the next two years.)
That is definitely not a good way to use timeouts, regardless of half. Timeouts should be saved til the end of the half to give you a chance to score on a short clock. Using a timeout as a communication break happens, but it’s usually seen as a blunder and a waste of a timeout.