Some of the best teachers are the players who weren't great at the sport. I have no problem with it all
Right, maybe Malik is the kind of guy who actually knows what he's doing, but just didn't really have the talent to execute at a high level.
I bet a lot of what he's working with TVD on is how to properly diagnose what the defense is doing in the read-option game. He was actually pretty good at that himself, especially in 2017.