If the Packers get down to their 3rd string QB in the playoffs, unless he is in their to kneel on the ball, I am guessing it wouldn't matter if it was Ridder or Tune, game over.
I can give you about 20M+ reasons why Malik wants to be a starter. Follow the money.
Yea, that's the bait on the hook isn't it. And ego, of course.
But say he does go to a team that's building, as a starter. Like many many Packers players have done... For the extra money...
I've noticed they tend to disappear quick... They learn that the raiders, jets, or a cut throat big city, isn't like the nurturing, building players environment we have in GB. Opposite actually. "You perform now, and it better be good.". One slip and they crucify you. Chitty QBs, new players all around you...I mean look at every WR who ever left our system. Only adams really survived outside GB. And he has Mathew Stafford.
I like to think Donald driver is the blueprint for a real GB Packer. Drafted 7th round. Earned that last spot a couple years... Worked his way up to #1 WR! Got paid a modest #1 wr contract, and when his next contract was due, he didn't go to a competitor.(Like Jennings did later) He accepted he is now #2 and future #3. And would be great in that role. Took the pay cut and played more years with a hall of fame QB. Making GB contenders every year. Got that last year contract for 1 mil too, which I don't think anyone else would've got offered in that position...
It was a symbiotic relationship. Win/win for both parties.
So with willis. What does he get if he stays? Well, I bet he could average $10 mil a year(?) for the next 10 years(12-15?), if he stays and embraces his current role(which gives the GB franchise important insurance)....He will have less miles on his body, for life after football. He can raise his kids in Greenbay Wisconsin, which is wholesome AF. Ideally he never plays, but when he does, it will be prime time. Stepping into the driver's seat of a race car. He won't be getting the hall of fame jacket most likely. But he will be hanging out with all the hall of famers. A local legend long after he quits playing football. Because packers fans are loyal. We're old school... That's a good life lived, being liked AND respected, by the GBP organization...
Or he could go to some lacking organization like the jets, get smeared into the grass. Hated for it, and dumped into free agency as soon as the coach is fired. Find himself #2 on some chitty franchise if he is lucky...
Who knows? Maybe Jordan love prices himself out of GB in 5 years. Willis might get the nod of he is in fact a true #1... Leave that up to the guys who watch them every day and do the books...
