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Opportunity has knocked and he has answered

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Opportunity has knocked and he has answered


Losing to your practice-squad QB has to be a tough pill to swallow for the Titans faithful.

Well, they didn’t exactly show up to support their squad. Packers fans owned that place. Hats off to the GB faithful in this one.

LaFleur dusting off an old Jim Mora quote. “You think you know, but you don’t.”

If LaFleur says nobody really understands everything that goes into what Willis has done these last couple weeks, I believe him.

Stephen from Green Bay, WI

That was a master class of coaching. That is all I can say.

It takes a village, and the Packers are using all the villagers.

Steve from Hilton Head Island, SC

What a great kid Malik Willis seems to be. The more I hear his interviews the more I like him. Humble, gracious, thankful and respectful. I can see why his teammates and coaches like him. 2-0 and him playing this well. Has any backup in Packer history played this well?

Well, he’s got a ways to go to reach Zeke Bratkowski territory. Or even Matt Flynn range for that matter. I don’t disagree with anything you said, but I’ll confess it’s a greater challenge to write fun, flashy stuff about him when he plays it so straight at the podium. He did open up on a couple of topics, so I did my best in yesterday’s Rapid Reaction column to capture that. But nothing rattles this guy.

Is Malik pricing himself out of the Packers’ backup role?

He’s on his rookie contract through the 2025 season.

Ralf from Arnsberg, Germany

I thought Malik Willis looked very comfortable for the most part. Playbook seemed to have opened quite a bit compared to last week. How much of a difference does a week make given he’s been in GB for only three weeks? Thanks.

Every practice, meeting and study session is invaluable to him given the circumstances. An extra week probably felt like a month for him.

How cool was it that, due to our past rushing success, play-action was already set-up on the first play of the game? I anticipated that and it really made me smile.

I thought the zone read stuff early really got the Titans on their heels, too. Willis barely ran any of that last week because the traditional running game was so dominant. Tennessee eventually took it away, but that defense didn’t look prepared for Willis to use his legs like he did.

I know Mr. LaFleur doesn’t care about this, but can we get the last two game films in the hands of the Coach of the Year voters? In a league where excuses can be used as currency for failure, our coach never resorts to them. Roll up your sleeves, go to work, shoulder the blame and distribute the credit. That’s got to impress and inspire the players.

No doubt it does, but bringing up COY in Week 3 is a bit much.

Mike, one game is a really small sample size, but while the arm talent, stature, and physicality of Levis is apparent, Willis made better decisions with the ball. How much of that can be attributed to game planning, protection, and other external factors, and how much of that is part of each player?

Impossible to say. I don’t know Levis at all, honestly. I know Willis has been one cool customer since he got here, and they’ve devised game plans that don’t ask him to be a superstar. The pass protection plays a huge part in all of it, too. As LaFleur said after the game, what the Packers put Levis through is tough on any QB, as is learning on the fly like he is.

Leandro from Lexington, KY

Up by two scores in the second half and the D stays aggressive? Just put it right in my veins, Spoff.

The opposing QB had a lot to do with Hafley’s approach.

I continue to be impressed by RB Emanuel Wilson. He’s a lot faster than you think and just seems to get the yards racked up. What did you see from him in the Tennessee game?

I loved what Wilson brought to this game. Patience, burst, vision. He put it all on display with the chances he was given. For that young man, opportunity has knocked and he has answered.

Zeke from Jacksonville, FL

Easily could’ve been nine.

Zak from Huntington Beach, CA

So, does Preston Smith owe Rashan Gary a set of steak knives, or will he have to carry Rashan’s helmet at practice or something, for his offsides penalty that wiped out Rashan’s sack? What’s the rule on the team (unspoken or otherwise) for when one player’s mistake erases a great play by a teammate?

I don’t know what kind of kangaroo court is set up, if any, but Gary gets to hold that one over Preston for a while.



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