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?
Firstly, I’m over Malik and want them to give Levis a shot. Malik doesn’t have the processing speed for this game at this level, it seems.
I don’t think he has very good top end speed. But he does have very very good elusiveness for a QB. He almost never goes down from first contact. Sometimes that works to his detriment where he runs around in the backfield breaking tackles and loses an extra 5 yards. But the man is HARD to bring down
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.
Remember that he only ever went to Liberty because he wasn’t good enough to be in the Power 5. He was originally at Auburn and then had to transfer to Liberty.
Malik runs around like a full back. Which is shocking cause that’s supposed to be his strength
We should unload malik now for a 5th for a team that might have liked him in the draft