Most underutilized Vol?

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PMC2726 said:
Without Fulmer, Witten would have never seen the offensive side of the ball at all. He was recruited as a DE out of high school. We had injuries at TE and he got moved over and made the most of it.

Witten had to split touches with the likes of Dante Stallworth, Travis Stephens, Gerald Riggs Jr, Leonard Scott, Cedric Houston, Kelly Washington. That’s tough sledding to say he was under utilized when there was so much other talent on the team.
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You're just not very familiar with this topic are you?
 
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HoptownVol said:
Uh huh, so what happened in 2002?
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Witten led all receivers in 2002 caught 39 493, you unhappy with that too? Damn shame Washington got hurt but in 4 games he caught 23 443. He does get hurt he's the primary target. Washington would have at least matched, if not exceeded his 1010 in 2001

You did not answer my question?
 
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WillisWG said:
Witten led all receivers in 2002 caught 39 493, you unhappy with that too? Damn shame Washington got hurt but in 4 games he caught 23 443. He does get hurt he's the primary target. Washington would have at least matched, if not exceeded his 1010 in 2001

You did not answer my question?
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I didn't answer your dumb question because it was about 2001. He was criminally underused in 02' when he was competing for catches with Tony Brown and Montrell Jones. Not sure why you're blabbering on about Washington.
 
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knox-townVOL said:
I think AK is probably going to dominate this discussion, but I will throw one out of left field as well: Keller Chryst.

And this isn’t another JG bashing, Chryst was just the better, more experienced player. He was good at things JG was never good at (like throwing receivers open rather than throwing to the open receiver). JG should have sat behind him and learned in 2018, then we may all have a different view of JG.
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Amen brother, Chryst the King.
 
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VolPack22 said:
We weren’t going anywhere that season. We were in the midst of play 5 consecutive top 10 teams. Just run wildcat the rest of the season with Pig Howard if you have to. The first game action of Dobbs’ career were #1 Alabama, #9 Missouri, #9 Auburn. That’s not how you setup a true freshman QB for success. I don’t care what the situation was, he shouldn’t have played in 2013. Once we got to that portion of the schedule, there was no reason to throw him in there. And the same thing happened the following season. Didn’t play him until Alabama. Should’ve started him from the beginning of the season in 2014.
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So you’re saying we’d be better of just hiring JH now? Facts are of Dobbs had been QB in ‘17 he’d saved a disaster in ‘17 but wheels would came off in ‘18 just like they did in ‘17. Tennessee would have hired Gumpbrain in ‘19 and they’d just fired his ass for incompetence (he was fired for losing, UT used his cheating as an excuse not to pay the SOB). Bottom line is UT, in all their incompetence, got lucky that Dobbs did play, wasn’t here in ‘17 and hopefully has a coach for now.
 
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wmcovol said:
So you’re saying we’d be better of just hiring JH now? Facts are of Dobbs had been QB in ‘17 he’d saved a disaster in ‘17 but wheels would came off in ‘18 just like they did in ‘17. Tennessee would have hired Gumpbrain in ‘19 and they’d just fired his ass for incompetence (he was fired for losing, UT used his cheating as an excuse not to pay the SOB). Bottom line is UT, in all their incompetence, got lucky that Dobbs did play, wasn’t here in ‘17 and hopefully has a coach for now.
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All I’m saying is we should have been able to get 4 full seasons out of Josh Dobbs as opposed to 2 half seasons and 2 full seasons.
 
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HoptownVol said:
I didn't answer your dumb question because it was about 2001. He was criminally underused in 02' when he was competing for catches with Tony Brown and Montrell Jones. Not sure why you're blabbering on about Washington.
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Looks like a balanced passing attack for a team that ran the ball 517 times.

Witten's rookie Cowboy year he was targeted 54 times for 35-347. That year Cowboys threw the ball 510 times but with targets like Galloway and Glenn I understand why Witten wasn't targeted more. But did Parcells "criminally underuse" Witten in 2003?

In 2004 Galloway is gone, their WRs are Johnson, Glenn and Morgan. . .Glenn goes down, Morgan goes down and out of necessity Witten is targeted 122 times out of 519 passing attempts. He caught 87 for 980. Cowboys go 6-10. Next time he sees over 100 targets is 2007.

He averaged 11.7 per catch in college and 10.6 in the pros.

No need for Five-O.
 
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WillisWG said:
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Looks like a balanced passing attack for a team that ran the ball 517 times.

Witten's rookie Cowboy year he was targeted 54 times for 35-347. That year Cowboys threw the ball 510 times but with targets like Galloway and Glenn I understand why Witten wasn't targeted more. But did Parcells "criminally underuse" Witten in 2003?

In 2004 Galloway is gone, their WRs are Johnson, Glenn and Morgan. . .Glenn goes down, Morgan goes down and out of necessity Witten is targeted 122 times out of 519 passing attempts. He caught 87 for 980. Cowboys go 6-10. Next time he sees over 100 targets is 2007.

He averaged 11.7 per catch in college and 10.6 in the pros.

No need for Five-O.
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Are you talking about the Cowboys now? LOL Go away Junior, I got this.
 
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vols 30 said:
Jason Witten
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Witten had 39 receptions as a junior, tied for the team lead. Also led the team in receiving yards and td’s. No TE (for Tennessee) has had more receptions since.

Last season all TE’s for Tennessee only had 37 .
Probably under utilized as a freshman; however he was a work horse his sophomore and junior seasons.
 
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You guys realize Kamara had over 100 rushes, 40 receptions and 18 punt returns with 14 td’s…….right?

Sure he could have been the full time runner; however when you got 3 RB’s and your QB rushes for over 800 yards……..your never going to get 200 rushes.

Also Kelly had an average of 6.4 per and he had less runs than Kamara.
 
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