Chris Simms unveiled, his rankings. He has Malik Willis
at number three. He had his pro day today at Liberty. Here's
Willis on having dinner
with a head coach, who may be interested
in drafting Malik Willis with the 20th overall pick in this
year's selection process. Here's Willis.
It was cool. I mean he a normal dude. That's what you want.
I mean he was normal do in this chicken wings over there. I'm
like my tummy eat chicken wings.
You think he, you know, I'm saying up here with it. So
I felt like that was cool, too.
You permission. You chicken wings to like
a cool. Now. I was just being myself. I ain't gonna lie.
I love chicken wing. So I was, I was eating those myself and
with the crab fries,
that was fire.
He thought my Tomlin eats, but yeah, there's no special diet
for football coaches. If anything, they eat the same
crap, the rest of us, do when they're grinding away in
the office hour after hour.
There's Malik Willis at his pro day. That is not. That's
an impressive, throw.
Not really a great platform, but it shows some incredible
arm strength, you know, he's one of the top guys will see
what happens, quarterbacks get overdrafted, because teams that
need quarterbacks like the Panthers. I mean, the Panthers
are going to take one of these guys,
clearly, and The problem with the Panthers wherever they're
drafting, you have to worry about getting jumped by
somebody else. Who likes the guy that
that they think the Panthers are going to take
because the Panthers may as well have a sign
on top of Bank of America Stadium saying, we're going to
take a quarterback in round one and it could end up being Malik
Willis.
I'm gonna be really surprised Mike if the Panthers don't
trade up to get one of these quarterbacks. Matt rule has
made the circuit. He was at Kenny Pickett's workout
yesterday, at Pittsburgh. And now he said
today at Malik Willis's work out. So the Panthers are going
to take one of these quarterbacks. It's a question
of how high, are they going to trade up to get one of these
guys, but I do think they trade up because they're not going to
want to miss out on the guy that they really feel
good about and I think that's the direction. They're I want
and I think it's pretty obvious. That that's
the direction they're going. And it'll be interesting to see if
anybody else. Also tries to make that move and then you're
exactly right, quarterbacks are overvalued because there's
not enough of them. And because this is not a quarter, good
quarterback graph. Does it matter the teams that need
a quarterback are going to move up to get those quarterbacks
despite what it cost because they don't have one. And they
feel like this guy could be their quarterback of
the future. Whoever that
might be.
And even though the Panthers draft at six and even though
you'll hear the draft experts say there's no quarterback.
That should go until the middle around one. The bottom line is
if you are the Panthers
and you cannot get any of the franchise quarterback, sure
established to play for. You mean they have put it on
the line twice with the Sean Watson and were shot down both times.
They can't make it work. They couldn't get Russell Wilson,
even if they tried to get him.
So the only way to do it is use the process of involuntarily
forcing. Guy to come play for you, whether he likes it or
not. I guess that would be the ultimate dignity for
the Panthers, if they draft a quarterback, and it's
the latest, Eli Manning, John Elway. I'm not going to play
for you
position, and I've said, time, and again, more players should
do that, but there's reasons to not, go to Carolina. Matt, rule
is clearly on the hot seat. Bend McAdoo is the offensive
coordinator.
There's a sense of dysfunction.
Just from the circumstance
that if things don't go well, this year, there's going to be
a changing the guard. What if the new coaching staff doesn't
want you? You got a problem.
So, there are reasons. Now, most of the players are very
well brainwashed at this point to just accept it. But how many
quarterbacks have we seen get ruined
by all of this turmoil? That happens early in
a career. Daniel Jones is dealing with it in New York
and other quarterbacks. We've seen they get they get in this
position where the offense changes coaching staff changes
and it really Lee slows down their overall career
development.