I’m just asking for someonw to explain why we are going straight to Levis for the start? I’d get mixed snaps but why are we just giving up on Willis? He hasn’t had many opportunities and I don’t feel like he’s all to blame when he has played. This isn’t Levis hate, this is not understanding why we’re jumping over Malik to him.
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.