Malik Willis is the worst qb to ever wear a Titans Uniform

[charleytolar]

Used to be that colleges aimed to prepare players for the NFL. Now the NFL seems to have to re-make the college players or re-design their own game to utilize the talent coming out.

[TerryBoats]

1 hour ago, charleytolar said:

Didn't Tannehill have a couple of playoff games like that? Not saying it's good or anything! You want to make it sound like Willis is the first man on Earth to do this.

To be fair to Charley, the offense isn't much better with Tannehill.  Willis is the worst QB in the world-this is supported by statistical, analytical, and observational data- yet the offense only scores 2.5 PPG fewer than they do with Tannehill.  

 

Big and others bring up how Tannehill ultimately isn't the long-term answer, regardless of age.  But the gap between Tannehill and top-shelf QBs is much closer than the gap between Willis and Tannehill.  There's not a single QB in the league who can make offense look respectable.  Just something to keep in mind when thinking of tanking for a QB

[rns90]

It's not even the offense lack of weapons.  It's like Willis has zero idea on how to execute something like a simple pass play.  You could give him the best OL, WR and he'd still screw it up because he has zero idea about the basics of playing the position.    That's not going to be solved by more playing time.  He's a stiff.

[charleytolar]

3 minutes ago, TerryBoats said:

To be fair to Charley...

It's about being fair to Willis. I don't disagree with anything you said. What are the odds that an "inexperienced" QB like Willis won't show improvement. I doubt he is as dumb as some of you are projecting. He would not have been a prospect. Most of the prospect rankers had him Top 3 QB. Here is the NFL who had him #1. 

 

https://www.nfl.com/prospects/participants/all/qb/all-colleges/

[Supernope]

I want the absolute worst possible backup qb if the starter is done for the year.  Jrob nailed this one, haters!

[TerryBoats]

50 minutes ago, charleytolar said:

It's about being fair to Willis. I don't disagree with anything you said. What are the odds that an "inexperienced" QB like Willis won't show improvement. I doubt he is as dumb as some of you are projecting. He would not have been a prospect. Most of the prospect rankers had him Top 3 QB. Here is the NFL who had him #1. 

 

https://www.nfl.com/prospects/participants/all/qb/all-colleges/

The problem is that Willis has done nothing but sow doubt about him ever being a guy to lead a football team or to bring it on himself to get better.  A rookie isn't expected to play like a franchise QB, but he's expected to act like one.  

 

I took up for Josh Allen on here during his rookie year- no matter his issues as a passer, I could see that he was a competitor who was going to make plays, be his best during big moments, and win games for this team. 

 

When the offense has needed him to make plays, Willis has arguably been his worst (those final 2 drives, the 4th and 8, the final drives vs KC, etc).  He leads neither by words nor actions.  I'm not writing him off due to what we have seen. It's due to what we haven't seen- something that can't be taught, and that you see in all franchise QBs.  Willis doesn't have it

[BTiger3733]

Malik Willis - 12.0

[El Guapo]

13 hours ago, BlueThunder said:

The SEC is running plays on average that are 19 seconds apart. So there is no reading a defense. They come to the line knowing what they are going to do. No check downs, no reads, just snap and then analyze. 

Maybe TN is but not the entire league. And for the homers that think Hooker is an answer, nope. Has played in a system that wont translate very well to the nfl.

[Alcibiades]

I don't think any of the QBs in this year's draft is the answer. Young will make some team better, but not us, and that's all there is. OT is where I go, and if they are gone, I trade DOWN and grab an interior OL or speedy WR. 

[El Guapo]

Just now, BlueThunder said:

I mentioned Hooker because he had an ACL injury and could fall far enough in the draft to take a chance on him. We need a LT far too worse than to take a QB with our first pick. Lane Kiffen started this hurry up at Ole Miss and TN followed suit. Not sure how many others are doing it. Hooker has a good arm and is mobile. Holds up well under fire. Makes good decisions. It would be a better start than Willis. 

Better start than Willis is not much of a compliment.  He doesn’t have to make too many decisions since TN only has 10 or 11 plays with a simple read.

 

Sure, he could be decent but man, we have so many holes it just seems like an unaffordable hail mary.

[El Guapo]

4 minutes ago, Alcibiades said:

I don't think any of the QBs in this year's draft is the answer. Young will make some team better, but not us, and that's all there is. OT is where I go, and if they are gone, I trade DOWN and grab an interior OL or speedy WR. 

Yup. 

[charleytolar]

14 hours ago, TerryBoats said:

The problem is that Willis has done nothing but sow doubt about him ever being a guy to lead a football team or to bring it on himself to get better. 

Doubt I get. It's the death sentence I'm concerned about. People here fretted about Henry getting tripped up in a ladder drill his first camp. Then the fretting when Burks missed so much of camp early. People back here are too reactionary and rush to judgment. Still, doubt I get.

[titans79]

12 minutes ago, charleytolar said:

Doubt I get. It's the death sentence I'm concerned about. People here fretted about Henry getting tripped up in a ladder drill his first camp. Then the fretting when Burks missed so much of camp early. People back here are too reactionary and rush to judgment. Still, doubt I get.

I am guilty of being digusted with his play in real time as well. Truth is, I believe he was drafted, knowing he was probably a 2 year project at best. The issue, deep down is more of one with the organization. Project QBs belong on the practice squad, not in a position to be playing for your teams life in the final quarter of the season. Gotta get an experienced guy to be in this spot. In some ways, his play isn't necessarily his fault just yet, the nonchalant response to it, which is not as fully nonchalant as it is being portrayed, but is slightly concerning nonetheless. 

[OILERMAN]

They were most def going to use him as a gadget type player, how much we'll never know. He was terrible in the limited opportunities he did that. 

[charleytolar]

6 minutes ago, titans79 said:

I am guilty of being digusted with his play in real time as well. Truth is, I believe he was drafted, knowing he was probably a 2 year project at best. The issue, deep down is more of one with the organization. Project QBs belong on the practice squad, not in a position to be playing for your teams life in the final quarter of the season. Gotta get an experienced guy to be in this spot. In some ways, his play isn't necessarily his fault just yet, the nonchalant response to it, which is not as fully nonchalant as it is being portrayed, but is slightly concerning nonetheless. 

The obvious answer, and this will make you guffaw, is the Titans expected someone to nab him off the Practice Squad but not Woodside. The response should bother us, but I think he can grow out of that.