M. Flowers...good news

[SoldierGriz]

https://www.underdogdynasty.com/2022/7/15/23196181/fcs-football-top-20-special-teams-malik-flowers-richard-mccollum-2022-western-carolina-sac-state

 

[mthoopsfan]

"1. Malik Flowers, KR - Montana

There’s no return man in the country more dangerous with the ball in his hands than Malik Flowers. Montana’s speedster has five total kick return touchdowns on his resume (a school record), two of which came last season. Flowers’ five career return touchdowns are third all-time in FCS history behind only Monmouth’s Jerome Mathis (6) and Weber State’s Rashid Shaheed (7). Flowers has returned 72 kicks in his four years with the Grizzlies and has racked up over 2,000 return yards. He’s lightning quick and is a threat to take it the distance any time he has a touch. With house calls of 99 and 100 yards under his belt, it’s safe to say he’s one of the best to ever do it."

 

[alabamagrizzly]

He will break the montana career KR yardage mark, the career returns mark if he’s kicked to about 20 times, and he currently holds the return average mark and must maintain a 28 yard average to keep it. He already holds the singke season yardage and TD marks for school history. His 31 yard average last season was 3 yards off the 40 year old school record of 33 held by Greg Anderson. Like what LV was for PR’s, Malik is for KR’s. I say he’s a generational talent but he’s more then that considering he’ll go down as the best in Montana history.

 

[Dillon]

Well deserved @ #1

 

[AZGrizFan]

He will break the montana career KR yardage mark, the career returns mark if he’s kicked to about 20 times, and he currently holds the return average mark and must maintain a 28 yard average to keep it. He already holds the singke season yardage and TD marks for school history. His 31 yard average last season was 3 yards off the 40 year old school record of 33 held by Greg Anderson. Like what LV was for PR’s, Malik is for KR’s. I say he’s a generational talent but he’s more then that considering he’ll go down as the best in Montana history.

I can’t imagine him getting 20 KR’s this season. Teams learned mid-last year to stop kicking to him, and it led to many great returns from Graves and a couple others. I think if this kid doesn’t touch the ball 12-15 times a game they’re vastly underutilizing him.

 

[alabamagrizzly]

He will break the montana career KR yardage mark, the career returns mark if he’s kicked to about 20 times, and he currently holds the return average mark and must maintain a 28 yard average to keep it. He already holds the singke season yardage and TD marks for school history. His 31 yard average last season was 3 yards off the 40 year old school record of 33 held by Greg Anderson. Like what LV was for PR’s, Malik is for KR’s. I say he’s a generational talent but he’s more then that considering he’ll go down as the best in Montana history.

I can’t imagine him getting 20 KR’s this season. Teams learned mid-last year to stop kicking to him, and it led to many great returns from Graves and a couple others. I think if this kid doesn’t touch the ball 12-15 times a game they’re vastly underutilizing him.

I think Bobby as the special teams coach, needs to find a way for Malik to get every KR. I appreciate how well Graves returns but Malik is something special.

 

[SaskGriz]

He will break the montana career KR yardage mark, the career returns mark if he’s kicked to about 20 times, and he currently holds the return average mark and must maintain a 28 yard average to keep it. He already holds the singke season yardage and TD marks for school history. His 31 yard average last season was 3 yards off the 40 year old school record of 33 held by Greg Anderson. Like what LV was for PR’s, Malik is for KR’s. I say he’s a generational talent but he’s more then that considering he’ll go down as the best in Montana history.

I can’t imagine him getting 20 KR’s this season. Teams learned mid-last year to stop kicking to him, and it led to many great returns from Graves and a couple others. I think if this kid doesn’t touch the ball 12-15 times a game they’re vastly underutilizing him.

I think you are right about him not getting 20 returns in a season. He had 16 in 13 games last year. One good problem is that a solid defense means fewer scores for the opponents and fewer kickoffs. Second, it is just top easy to take a single returner out of equation. Squibs, angled kickoffs, touchbacks, they all play a part. It's not like a punt where as the punter I'm under pressure to just get it out of there so a single returner can deal with me. Plus my cover team isn't having to block, release and then get down field. There are 10 hungry animals with a head start sprint down on coverage. In addition as the kicker I have all time in the world to line up my approach and put the ball where I want. Therefore you need two guys back because one guy will be doing so much lateral running that he'll rarely have the upfield momentum to get much on the return.

Not sure we have enough touches to get Malik 12-15 a game. If he's a starting WR we can maybe get him another 6 or 7 but I'm not sure were he fits with Roberts/Simpson/White/Bergen/Fontes/Racanelli and I know they like the metrics on Williams but I guess he had some troubles holding on during the spring game. I also see the Griz going to even more 2 TE sets (Grossman, Elwell, Barker, plus Rensvold if he's healthy and Jake Olson from Butte).

 

[AZGrizFan]

I can’t imagine him getting 20 KR’s this season. Teams learned mid-last year to stop kicking to him, and it led to many great returns from Graves and a couple others. I think if this kid doesn’t touch the ball 12-15 times a game they’re vastly underutilizing him.

I think you are right about him not getting 20 returns in a season. He had 16 in 13 games last year. One good problem is that a solid defense means fewer scores for the opponents and fewer kickoffs. Second, it is just top easy to take a single returner out of equation. Squibs, angled kickoffs, touchbacks, they all play a part. It's not like a punt where as the punter I'm under pressure to just get it out of there so a single returner can deal with me. Plus my cover team isn't having to block, release and then get down field. There are 10 hungry animals with a head start sprint down on coverage. In addition as the kicker I have all time in the world to line up my approach and put the ball where I want. Therefore you need two guys back because one guy will be doing so much lateral running that he'll rarely have the upfield momentum to get much on the return.

Not sure we have enough touches to get Malik 12-15 a game. If he's a starting WR we can maybe get him another 6 or 7 but I'm not sure were he fits with Roberts/Simpson/White/Bergen/Fontes/Racanelli and I know they like the metrics on Williams but I guess he had some troubles holding on during the spring game. I also see the Griz going to even more 2 TE sets (Grossman, Elwell, Barker, plus Rensvold if he's healthy and Jake Olson from Butte).

I liked him on the jet sweep. :thumb: :thumb: Some way to get the ball to him in space.

 

[SaskGriz]

I think you are right about him not getting 20 returns in a season. He had 16 in 13 games last year. One good problem is that a solid defense means fewer scores for the opponents and fewer kickoffs. Second, it is just top easy to take a single returner out of equation. Squibs, angled kickoffs, touchbacks, they all play a part. It's not like a punt where as the punter I'm under pressure to just get it out of there so a single returner can deal with me. Plus my cover team isn't having to block, release and then get down field. There are 10 hungry animals with a head start sprint down on coverage. In addition as the kicker I have all time in the world to line up my approach and put the ball where I want. Therefore you need two guys back because one guy will be doing so much lateral running that he'll rarely have the upfield momentum to get much on the return.

Not sure we have enough touches to get Malik 12-15 a game. If he's a starting WR we can maybe get him another 6 or 7 but I'm not sure were he fits with Roberts/Simpson/White/Bergen/Fontes/Racanelli and I know they like the metrics on Williams but I guess he had some troubles holding on during the spring game. I also see the Griz going to even more 2 TE sets (Grossman, Elwell, Barker, plus Rensvold if he's healthy and Jake Olson from Butte).

I liked him on the jet sweep. :thumb: :thumb: Some way to get the ball to him in space.

A play that ironically Coach Stitt hardly ever ran. As opposed to the bubble screen which we checked into more often than Cowboys 84 would check into the lid on a pot of lard gravy.

 

[AZGrizFan]

I liked him on the jet sweep. :thumb: :thumb: Some way to get the ball to him in space.

A play that ironically Coach Stitt hardly ever ran. As opposed to the bubble screen which we checked into more often than Cowboys 84 would check into the lid on a pot of lard gravy.

:lol: :lol:

 

[EverettGriz]

They should run Malik on so many fly sweeps and end arounds and quick hitters that 11 guys just stand up and tell the defense, “Yep, he’s gettin the damn ball again on this snap. Try to stop him”.

 

[Yukon]

Reminds me of that player Gump at Alabama. Nobody could stop him.

 

[WaGriz4life]

I can’t imagine him getting 20 KR’s this season. Teams learned mid-last year to stop kicking to him, and it led to many great returns from Graves and a couple others. I think if this kid doesn’t touch the ball 12-15 times a game they’re vastly underutilizing him.

I think Bobby as the special teams coach, needs to find a way for Malik to get every KR. I appreciate how well Graves returns but Malik is something special.

Not possible

 

['68griz]

Glad he plays for the Griz.