If we have a top 5 pick, we need a reason to not draft a QB. It would be annoying as hell to draft 3 QBs in 3 years. However, Malik is not looking too much better. Time to confirm what we have in Levis.

Willis has had two full off season, mini camps, camps, preseasons and now played in multiple games and still looks like the game is happening way too fast for him. He also struggles to make easy throws on time once he’s in the game.

Also, for some reason, Jrob drafted a qb with a play style the polar opposite of Tannehills and what our offensive style is built for. Ran drafted a qb whose pro comp is Tannehill, the best qb we’ve had in decades, who ran our style of offense at a super high level for years.

So it’s a combination of those things and the fact that we’re headed into one of the deepest qb drafts in years,remember how thin the class willis was in was, this class is the opposite and they need to know what they in Levis before then.

Willis couldn’t compete in the SEC, he’s shown in limited opportunities that he can’t read defenses. He’s a perfect Madden player but if you can’t read the field in college, you aren’t going to be able to in the NFL

Malik is consistently a half-step late on his drop backs, which makes him immediately late getting into his progressions.

Once he gets to his progressions, he can’t see the field, refuses to anticipate or throw to open guys because they aren’t wide open by 5 yards.

This then causes him to drop his eyes and scramble, so the potential second window or bigger play never gets a look.

It’s the same mistake over and over. If you can’t play within the offense and can’t make plays down field with your arm or worse, aren’t willing to throw it, you aren’t an NFL QB. Simple as that.

We have a pretty good idea of what Malik is. We don’t with Levis and need to because if he sucks, we’re probably in position to draft Maye or Williams.

If we find out he’s a potential franchise guy, we can start adding high end pieces to surround him immediately. Insert MHJ please!

Willis last year leading up the to the draft was talked about as a possible #1 pick…has looked far from it.

Ridder picked 12 picks before him looks miles ahead of him. Bailey Zappe picked in the 4th has looked better than him and played well enough that people wanted him over Mac Jones. Sam Howell picked in the 5th is starting for the Commanders and has shown bright spots even with all the sacks. Brock Purdy last pick of the draft, doesn’t matter that he is on a good team, he was still having to make the throws.

Hahahahha

One person covering the team this week (I can’t remember who) made a very good point about Malik Willis:

We should not be angry at Malik for his limitations. Direct your anger towards Hugh Freeze. In his offense at liberty, he had basically two things to do. 1) Look and see if WR1 is open, and chuck it to him if he is. 2) If WR1 is not open, tuck it and run as much as he can. Malik never learned how to make multiple reads and actually play QB. Either he can’t learn how to play QB, or the titans just can’t teach someone how to make NFL caliber decisions like that, and I could see both being true.

Levia was actually asked to run our offense (and the offense of the rams, lions, Seahawks, raiders, packers, and jets) while he was at Kentucky under Liam Coen. He had to use all the wordy play verbiage, make checks at the line of scrimmage, operate a huddle, call hot routes, make audibles, and read 3 receivers to decide when and who to throw the ball. Those are all things that Malik has not been asked to do. Anything outside of his two decisions was backyard hero ball stuff.

That’s not to say that Levis didn’t do some backyard hero ball stuff too. Both QBs had to do it at times because of their poor college situations. But one of them can theoretically run and operate an NFL offense, and the other cannot. How many times do we watch Malik Willis and say “throw the darn ball Malik, make a pass or throw it away, quit running around back there for 10 seconds and make a decision”? I think that’s what the coaches DONT see in Levis. For better or worse (and this may cause some mistakes), Levis is willing to let it rip and decisively launch the ball. Malik is not.

Because Willis is awful. It’s clear he is not NFL material and I hope they don’t waste any more time trying to see if a miracle will happen and he magically becomes playable.

Loooool have you seen Willis? He blows

Willis has had ample opportunity to show us and win the job, this year and last. He didn’t capitalize on it and the gains he did make aren’t enough. Knowing what we’ve already seen Willis do, it’s time to see what Billy Blue Jeans can do so that we know if another QB needs to be picked in the 2024 draft.