Don't sleep on Josh Malone

#27
#27
He needs to break out this year or his opportunity will disappear. We have a bunch of young guys who are very good as well and want the ball.
 
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Remy said:
I would love to see it! Also do not go to sleep over young Mr. Jennings. The youngster is just too athletic and an aggressive football player to not make a significant impact this year as well!
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This, Jennings was a high school quarterback who, played receiver as a freshman in college. Watch out for him this year :rock2:
 
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Meachem was a bad, bad man. His junior season he was, in almost every game, the best player on the field. Against LSU's vaunted secondary and with Crompton throwing the ball up for grabs, Meachem was a man amongst boys and nearly singlehandedly won the game for us on the offensive side of the ball. I believe that is one of the most impressive games that I've seen from a Vol offensive player in the last decade. If Malone, or PWill or Smith or Jennings, can get to 80% of the production of Meachem's junior year, we will be rolling this year.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Man, I have held tightly to my high hopes for Josh over the past couple of years. Sad truth, though, is that if the spark doesn't take in two seasons, it is far less likely in the third season and beyond.

So, much as we all hope all our players excel, the chance of that happening with PWill is higher than it is with Malone, at this point.

Would love for Josh to come out this fall and prove me wrong. Throw us in that briar patch. :)
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VFL, you are one of my very favorite posters on here and I agree with more than 99% of the time ... but not this time.

There is NO kinda rule that says if they haven't done it the first two years ... they won't learn and grow and develop in years 3 and 4. I know that's not exactly what you said, but in essence, it is. No reason Malone can't go lights-out this year, and no reason that's unlikely. In fact, it's more unlikely that upperclassman starters would fail to develop/progress than they would develop/progress.
 
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VOL 4 Life 83 said:
Every receiver, no matter how good, has a few drops a year. I don't recall Malone having anymore than a couple.
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Go to the UT football stats & you'll find out that two drops are a little low. It was more than that. Look it up & find out for yourself. He had the dropsies!
 
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tonybologna said:
Go to the UT football stats & you'll find out that two drops are a little low. It was more than that. Look it up & find out for yourself. He had the dropsies!
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Tell us where to look. I honestly don't know how many official drops he had, but I doubt it was more than anybody else.
 
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tonybologna said:
Well, it's not double-digits & it's not two so you'll have 7 numbers to guess now. :)
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Ok so let's say it's 5 since I don't have the time to look through the play-by-play game log from every game. And let's assume that he was solely responsible for half of them by just plain dropping them, and the other half he may have gotten a hand on the ball from an errant pass that may have been a difficult catch.

You really still gonna hate on Malone for dropping maybe 2-3 passes he was solely responsible for?!
 
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WhatInVolnation said:
Meachem was a bad, bad man. His junior season he was, in almost every game, the best player on the field. Against LSU's vaunted secondary and with Crompton throwing the ball up for grabs, Meachem was a man amongst boys and nearly singlehandedly won the game for us on the offensive side of the ball. I believe that is one of the most impressive games that I've seen from a Vol offensive player in the last decade. If Malone, or PWill or Smith or Jennings, can get to 80% of the production of Meachem's junior year, we will be rolling this year.
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If we get anything near 2006 Meachem play this year from one of our guys we are winning big.
 
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KBVol said:
Tell us where to look. I honestly don't know how many official drops he had, but I doubt it was more than anybody else.
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Not sure who would get to make the call between a drop and a poor pass.
Wouldn't take whoever at their word regardless.
 
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VOL 4 Life 83 said:
Ok so let's say it's 5 since I don't have the time to look through the play-by-play game log from every game. And let's assume that he was solely responsible for half of them by just plain dropping them, and the other half he may have gotten a hand on the ball from an errant pass that may have been a difficult catch.

You really still gonna hate on Malone for dropping maybe 2-3 passes he was solely responsible for?!
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Seriously. If that's "the dropsies", I hope the whole receiving corps comes down with a bad case of em this season.
 
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KBVol said:
Seriously. If that's "the dropsies", I hope the whole receiving corps comes down with a bad case of em this season.
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I agree. Malone I thought was solid last year. Every receiver has drops. I'd say out of the drops he had, >50% of them were questionable whether it's on him or the QB.
 
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ScornedPapaVol said:
If we get anything near 2006 Meachem play this year from one of our guys we are winning big.
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A lot of the change in Meachem was due to Coach Cut coming back. I don't see any major changes like that to affect our WRs. Now if we're talking about TEs...
 
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Biggest thing for Josh this year - draft eligible.
We've had a lot of great players over the years who didn't do much for two years and then blew it up that third year.
 
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VOL 4 Life 83 said:
Every receiver, no matter how good, has a few drops a year. I don't recall Malone having anymore than a couple.
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I think the drops thing is overstated with Malone as well. But on the other hand, I can't remember him really attacking a ball and using his size the way a 6'3 WR should either. Closest that comes to mind is the one nce catch he had over the middle at Bama.

Seems like he's more of a run and catch guy than a go get the ball type. Hopefully this year he rounds out his game.
 
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orangebloodgmc said:
VFL, you are one of my very favorite posters on here and I agree with more than 99% of the time ... but not this time.

There is NO kinda rule that says if they haven't done it the first two years ... they won't learn and grow and develop in years 3 and 4. I know that's not exactly what you said, but in essence, it is. No reason Malone can't go lights-out this year, and no reason that's unlikely. In fact, it's more unlikely that upperclassman starters would fail to develop/progress than they would develop/progress.
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Yeah, man, I deeply, hugely hope that I'm wrong here. Would love to see Malone get bust out this season.
 
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08Vol said:
A lot of the change in Meachem was due to Coach Cut coming back. I don't see any major changes like that to affect our WRs. Now if we're talking about TEs...
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I can certainly agree that Cut made a big difference for everybody when he came back in '06, so it's very likely Meachem benefitted a lot from his return as well.

The difference in his production was 40+ catches, 900+ yds and 9 tds. While I agree that Cut was a part of it, I'd also guess that Meachem being draft-eligible and a year older/more mature and just overall more focused, like I would expect Josh to be this year in similar circumstances, had a whole lot to do with it.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Man, I have held tightly to my high hopes for Josh over the past couple of years. Sad truth, though, is that if the spark doesn't take in two seasons, it is far less likely in the third season and beyond.

So, much as we all hope all our players excel, the chance of that happening with PWill is higher than it is with Malone, at this point.

Would love for Josh to come out this fall and prove me wrong. Throw us in that briar patch. :)
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Robert Meachem had a break out season his jr year. The "spark" lit and he had 1200 recieving yards his junior season, here is to hoping Malone has a similar jump his junior season.
 
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