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"malik willis liberty" Discussed on The MMQB NFL Podcast
"So, stylistically, we're looking for Arthur Smith wide zone type of quarterback here. Malik Willis fits the bill just fine. He's something of, you know, I think you can mold him in a number of ways, but you can, you'd feel good about dropping him into this offense, I think, probably more than most in the league right now. Other than that, you're obviously you're looking at Kenny Pickett if you are worried about Kenny Pickett and his hand size and what's gonna happen when it gets a little chilly out when it's jacket weather and can he still hold on to the ball or are you just gonna be all fumbly? Yep, they play indoors and they play in the NFC south. So if you like can you pick it, he makes sense there as well. And those are, yeah, those are probably your top two, I would think. Yeah, I like Willis slightly more because I think there's more of an upside. And I think there's more untapped potential. I think what's the stupid phrase like Pickett probably has the higher floor, but Willis has the higher ceiling. I think that's probably the thought process there. And if you're the falcons, you take a big swing and, you know, you get a guy that at worst, you're going to be able to run some mobility stuff with and get by. And kind of mess with some offenses. In the meantime, mess with some defenses, I should say. Very good. Malik Willis, liberty quarterback to the falcons at 8. That brings us to the Seahawks at 9, another quarterback needy team, although another team that also needs quite a bit here. And they are coming back into the top ten, they lost a first round pick in the Jamal Adams trade, and they end up gaining this one from the Broncos in the Russell Wilson trade. Yeah. Interesting team interesting spot, I don't think they're drafting a quarterback. What do you think? I would be open to a Malik Lewis pick here, but again, I'm just looking at Willis, the shorthand is I could see Willis as being a guy who, I don't know, 25% of the league looks at and say like, well, this is the kind of guy we want. This is the kind of guy we're gonna roll the dice on. And if it's not him, it's no one. So yeah, if they are one of those 25% of teams, that's not much of an answer. I'm giving you Connor. But my answer is maybe. But probably not. Yeah. So. I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say, I think Seattle needs edge presence and there's lots of good edge guys there. They have their pick of versatile linebackers..
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"malik willis liberty" Discussed on The MMQB NFL Podcast
"The creatives, like showrunner Shonda Rhimes, who brought them to life. Everything's true. Until it's not basically an Anna's world. Listen to inventing Anna, the official podcast starting march 2nd on the iHeartRadio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Hello and welcome to the mmm Monday morning NFL podcast. I'm Gary gramley. And I'm Conor and Connor, we are just getting into the off season here. So we're gonna do two things on this show. 'cause we're not really in mid off season form or anything like that. We're kind of working some of the kinks out, you know, trying to get ourselves going for free agency and draft season and all that fun stuff. But we are going to do two segments on this show. The second one is going to be the free agency preview preview. We're going to Connor and I always team up on the always, this is the second year we've done it. Since the beginning of time. But Connor and I team up on the free agency rankings on S dot com and I have put together basically the preliminary list and then Conor goes through and shouts about stuff and gets really upset and then we scream at each other and don't talk for a couple of days, but we're going to do that live on air this time. He's going to take a look at the list for the first time and we're going to run through it. But before we get to that, we're just going to do a little warmup, little spring training, if you will for the podcast. We're going to do our off season takes warmup show. I think that's the best. I think it's the best title we have for this wine. And by the way, at some point, Connor is going to tell me about the new Pokémon game as well, which I'm eager to hear about. But we are going to start this off with basically, these are not official takes yet. These are takes in the works. We're kind of going to the lab and just seeing how they come out when we run them out into the public here. So these are not official takes, but these are kind of, these are takes in their embryonic stage. Yeah? Okay. Yeah, all right. I like that. You're reluctant, but that's okay. It's just weird to think about all the people involved in my takes now as little embryos. I don't know why I'm thinking about that. There will be born into the world and we'll reject some of them, I'm sure as we go on, but I have three. Do you have three or you have two? I have three. Okay. So why don't you go first? And like you said, I'm still like you said, this is a warmup show. I'm still stretching a little bit, so I don't know if you stretched before you got on here, but let me hear your best take in the work right now. I mean, this is it. This is like, you know, new pitches in the repertoire and we'll see, we'll see how they work. This is my mildest one. And really it's not even, well, I don't want to poo poo it before I even throw it out there, but no one in this draft should trade up for anyone. In the first round, except for Malik Willis who should go in the top 5. Whoo. Wow, that went from like, that went from like, did this even like I ordered hot sauce on this to like, wow. Holy crap. I love it. Yeah, I mean, the first part is pretty self explanatory. It's just not a very strong draft. There's no surefire quarterbacks to come back yet. There's really not even necessarily a 8 in Hutchinson and came out too. I like them a lot, but neither guy is a chase young miles Garrett caliber type of a due to this one. But Malik Willis, this is, gosh, I'm just gonna really enjoy talking about Malik Willis all during the draft season. A couple things on him. And I think you're a Malik Willis believer as well, although I want to sort of get I want to shove the driver out of the bandwagon driver's seat and I want to start driving it myself here. So we know he has the physical traits. We know he has, I don't think he quite has the mahomes, Josh Allen arm, but he's like that half a tick below it. Like it's very good arm talent, really good athlete, really good improvisational player. What appeals to me about him is I hate that offense. They run at liberty. I don't think he was put in very good position. It's very often. And it's not exactly what Josh Allen is. Josh Allen's Wyoming offense had drawbacks that were different than Malik Willis liberty offense. But as I watch Malik Willis and some of the really, he made some bad mistakes. He made some bad decisions about throws last season that you wish he didn't see, but a lot of them came off to me as like, yeah, you could coach him out of that or other stuff was like, you know, he thought he could he thought he could hit that hole shot there, but there's no way. And it's just something that he's going to learn as he gets more reps. And I think he's the kind of guy who is going to basically, you know, assuming he lands with a capable NFL coaching app. I think he's just going to take off over the next, you know, probably a red shirt year here. And then come 2020 three, 2024. He's going to be the guy that everyone's going to be like, ah, that's that's who we missed on. We should have listened to the podcast with the warmup takes and come up to the top 5 and gotten them. I love that underrated, I think just in general is the simmering love that you have for people and I don't know that it happens until right when it's brought to my attention. I want to say, what was it, Jared Davis? Was that a guy like a couple years ago from the alliance? Yeah, I love Jared Davis. And you were like, not only do I love Jared Davis. He's the best linebacker in the NFL, and I was like, where did that come from? I didn't say that, but also I was probably much closer to that than I'd care to admit. Yeah, yeah. No, I love this. I like Malik Willis two. I think some of my reservations are the timing stuff, which again, how well designed was that stuff and also, I think, that he still coming around as a passer. Like I think he learned a lot of this stuff late in life. When he was kind of tried to a lot of coaches, I think tried to pigeonhole him into the position, right? And then once he got there, I think he's still getting comfortable with the footwork and all that stuff, but a lot of coaches will say, I'm staying a thousand yards away from that. Get away from me, but I think this is so different than it was before where, you know, here's something that I think a lot of fans don't understand. The quarterback's coach in the NFL does not coach quarterbacks. He is the offensive coordinator that relays the offense to the quarterbacks. Quarterbacks get better at being quarterbacks in the off season with private tutors. Like full stop. And so I think if Malik Willis was able to spend another full off season with his guys, I think he comes out ready to ready to go. I think he's going to be good. And forever and it's like, oh, that doesn't work. It worked for Josh Allen. Because Josh Allen had good quarterback coaching in the off season and then he had a great offensive coordinator. So let's say you put him on this steelers, right? He's going to have a great offensive coordinator. He's going to have a good quarterbacks coach in The Office season. I think I love this. I think this is ghost pepper level take. But a.
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"malik willis liberty" Discussed on Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"Nobody's got a better than we do. Trigger grills are all fired up there. Right, make love and before I get to a professional Matt Miller, ESPN draft contributor. I want you to give us your thoughts on the quarterbacks for this next year's draft. I already told you, I'm going over under. I'm going Five quarterbacks or more first round next year. Okay? I want to give you a couple against the green name. Okay? There's some big names that we know like Sam Howe and spends rather I'm gonna give three short of dark horses. Maybe they're not dark horses anymore and see if You were mad. Think I'm crazy? Okay, I'm start with Malik Willis Liberty starting to get a lot of love this week. He's an Auburn transfer who blew up coastal Carolina in the bowl game. Okay, uh, Matt Corral Ole Miss quarterback because he's got Lane. Kiffin is his coach and he's a gun slinger, and he's really exciting. Uh, was he at USC? I don't think so. Maybe he was, he might have been all these guys have transferred at least once. I don't think so. Okay. And then my dark, dark, dark horse, and this is just what I saw him play. Coastal Carolina quarterback and I'd look up his name Grayson McCall was a three star recruit Kinda looks like Mac Jones. I feel like a coastal Carolina quarterback to be a great story. He's my dark, dark horse. He's kind of young, but he'd be eligible. So they're my three dark horses. Malik Willis. Mackerel and Grace and McCall. Not sure if you stole Matt Miller's thunder, By the way, I don't think so. But my two favorite players Are not skill position players. Derek Stingley Jr. And, uh, Kyle Hamilton, the safety out of Notre Dame thing these Alice, you right? Yeah. They're sorry. Yeah, but Hamilton at Notre Dame. He reminds me a mill Blunt. He's like, Looks like he's 64 safety. Yeah. Oh, wow. Let's bring in Matt Miller. Maybe we don't need you mad. Did we just steal all your draft thunder for next year? Yeah, I think so. Make love has got it. I mean, you might want to keep him giving a race. He s B is gonna try to give him my job with all the dark corners quarterback. Okay, over under five quarterbacks taken in the first round next year, you're going over under I think that's right on the money. I will say this. I have 14 quarterbacks raided already for next year. 14 legitimate quarterbacks, not to mention the two that I have to add to my list, thanks to Andrew. 14 quarterbacks a lot more than there were last year's class man. We received eight drafted, so I wouldn't be surprised if we Seymour quarterbacks drafted, but we haven't seen six in the first round yet, So maybe next year is the year but there's not that clear cut. Trevor Laurence type guy headed into the year. It'll be a lot of players who have to develop in Ascend whether that's you know, Sam how North Carolina after losing his top two receivers and top two running backs Seen. Slovis has a ton of playmakers around him. His offensive line is gonna be a little bit young, but there's not that established big name right now. All right, run down. Some of the other quarterbacks here. At least we can keep an eye on this upcoming season. But I don't want to inflate your ego too much. Your dad, But you hit the nail on the head with Carson Strong. That's my dude for next year, and I thought he was going to be the guy where I would get to come in here and like August and Puff my chest out for me. This is the new battle quarterback Vata. He's good, though. Six ft. 42 20. He's got a huge arm. He could do enough off platform. Hate comparing players when they have the same name. It feels lazy, but when you watch him, you see a lot of Carson Wentz like He's a big quarterback with a big arm and good mobility, so I would not be surprised if he ends up the number one quarterback next year. Spencer Rattler has been in Oklahoma. It feels like forever, but he's actually just the third year player if you're looking for this year's Cuyler Murray or Zach Wilson, the undersized quarterback who's just gonna run around in the pocket and make crazy things happen. I think Spencer Rattlers. One of those players, Malik Willis, that Liberty is another McLovin mentioned he's Malik Will a 61 to 10. He is an electric athlete probably has the strongest arm in next year's class. But then there Kind of your traditional power. Sam Hallet, North Carolina Phil Jirka vets who transferred from Notre Dame to Boston College and looks like he will be an NFL level quarterback. So plenty of guys to fall in love with between now and labor Day when we kick this thing back off, looking back on the draft, which team changed the most with the NFL draft? Think Carolina and you have to include the same Donald trade in there, so they've got a new quarterback. They added A very good corner and JC Horn in the first round. They got terrorist. Marshall Junior wide receiver in the sac around Brady. Christian sent a tackle in the third. Then I thought they really cleaned up on day three tuba Hubbard will play way. No Christian McCaffrey is gonna move around. You got hurt. Last year, Mike Davis had to step in a lot. Think Davion Nixon, the D tackle from Iowa, he's going to play and they drafted a long snapper Thomas Fletcher of Alabama, so we know he's gonna play E. They got six or seven contributors in this first draft for Scott Fitterer. But I always looking strategy. I don't necessarily look at the player. It's like the Raiders with taking Alex Leather, right? Like where you took him. It's not him as much as where you took him. You know, the Steelers taken nausea. Harris. Okay. Did you need to take him there? You know, Carolina decided not to take Justin Fields or Mack Jones. You know that They were going to go with Sam Donald who, if he plays well, is going to cost them an awful lot like did you understand? Who strategy did you question? And whose strategy did you praise? I mean, my job's to question everyone strategy Almost right. I mean, we can even start with San Francisco. Hell, we could start the New York Jets to be like, you know, is Zach Wilson gonna be better than Sam? Donald? Did you give enough framework of structure around him that it's actually gonna work? Historically New York Jets, quarterbacks don't pan out. So if you want to bet on who's gonna bust you just play the odds and take the Jets quarterback, but You know, the Niners gave up the historical amount of draft capital, the researchers, the ESPN told me that is the most a team has given up for a quarterback since Washington traded up for RG three. We know how that worked with the Shanahan's, so that's a lot of draft capital to give up. And then I thought after trailing San Francisco, reached for Aaron Banks is good player they reached for Amory Thomas in the third round. I don't know anyone who had a third round grade on him, and they traded up to take a running back who's been a hurt Every time he's touched the football basically and trey sermon. Then they drafted another running back and Elijah Mitchell. So for all the like we get stars in our eyes. Only thing about John lynching Kyle Shanahan. They've had one winning season and I think outside of Trey Lance, who I loved, that was a very questionable draft for them, And that's something that remember this team drafted. CJ bettered in the third round Joe Williams in the third round after he had basically retired it, Utah. And so they have not done a great job outside of George Kittle with their mid round picks, which is where you have to build your team, so I think you can question their strategy. I liked Washington strategy. To be honest to not take a quarterback at night or not to trade up from 19 to get a quarterback to give up a future first round pick where next year's draft looks to be, Ah, lot deeper..