Malik Willis Looks Like He Will Make 1st Team All Bust

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He can't seem to make a throw after his first read and he's not some Vick/Lamar type runner. Basically a Justin Fields sized dude (big-ish QB) but not as gifted.

Feel like maybe he doesn't trust his arm and doesn't wanna make mistakes given they have Henry + a good defense. NFL "open" is pretty tight unless you scheme guys open. He's gonna have to chuck the ball around to learn.
 

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Feel like maybe he doesn't trust his arm and doesn't wanna make mistakes given they have Henry + a good defense. NFL "open" is pretty tight unless you scheme guys open. He's gonna have to chuck the ball around to learn.

He did the same thing in college with a lot less pressure while dealing with "college open". If it was one place to unlearn it, it was there. All tonight probably did was sink his confidence even further. He shouldn't have been put in a single game this year.
 

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The fukked up thing is that in college (in a situation like this), you’d prolly try to go straight up RPO, with an emphasis on the R, and run him like 15 times, but in the NFL, you don’t got too many QB options as is.
 
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He did the same thing in college with a lot less pressure while dealing with "college open". If it was one place to unlearn it, it was there. All tonight probably did was sink his confidence even further. He shouldn't have been put in a single game this year.
Agree.

He'd be better off on a really bad squad with zero expectations. That way he can take his lumps and learn what works and doesn't work. Tennessee is actually pretty solid, so there's pressure to not mess up games.

Dude needs to be able to drop back 20-30x/game and run 5-10x/game and just go ham. He'll throw ducks, picks whatever....but he'll learn what he can and can't do.

Part of me thinks sitting is good because he can learn the mental side....but part of thinks that he's so scared to throw that he needs to make mistakes and get it out of his system. Might have some perfectionist tendencies. He gotta have one of those 1989 Troy Aikman-type situations where he learns the hard way.
 
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