WR DeVier Posey (2017 Grey Cup Champion and MVP)

[Buckskin86]

OSU NOTES: Posey isn't looking for jump start
Published: Friday, October 15, 2010
By JOHN KAMPF
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DeVier Posey doesn?t know which musical group performed ?Jump Around.? All he knows is he is getting tired of hearing it.

In similar fashion to how Ohio State pipes ?Hail to the Victors? over the loudspeakers at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, particularly during the week of OSU?s game with Michigan, the Buckeyes have been practicing while House of Pain?s ?Jump Around? and Wisconsin?s fight song, ?On Wisconsin,? have been blaring.

?Any time we have a game, we like to simulate it as much as we can,? Posey said.

Two years ago at Camp Randall Stadium, Ohio State?s players were bouncing around emphatically as ?Jump Around? was played over the loudspeaker, as per Wisconsin football tradition.

?I know we played it on Sunday and (Tuesday),? Posey said. ?By Thursday, I?m going to be asking them to take it off because I?ll be sick of it by then.?

Good night

Saturday?s game, which will be played at 7:15, will be the Buckeyes? second night game of the season. OSU also played Marshall in the evening and has an 8 p.m. kickoff at Minnesota on the docket.

Posey said he enjoys night games, in particular night games on the road.

?I feel it?s harder at home,? he said. ?We?ve been to the Blackwell (where OSU stays on game nights) so many times, we know all the channels on the TV. On the road, you?re at a foreign place. It?s just you and your boys. I feel time goes faster on the road.?

Even faster for road games at night.

?I get my Friday night legs back,? Posey said. ?My legs feel good, like back in high school. Those 12 noon games are like Little League. But you get those Friday night legs back and it feels good. I love night games.?

http://morningjournal.com/articles/2010/10/15/sports/doc4cb7ce6d41078824248838.txt

 

[k2onprimetime]

Hell by the end of the 3rd quarter that stadium could be quiet.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

Sick of Jump Around?

Does not compute.

 

[Buckskin86]

Ohio State's DeVier Posey stays 'humbled' by a challenging junior season
Published: Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer

Marvin Fong / The Plain Dealer
DeVier Posey (8) hasn't had as many chances for big plays as he might have liked so far this season, but the OSU wide receiver doesn't let it rattle him. "I take things in stride," he said. "I try to learn from everything and I never get down on myself."

WAITING FOR DEVIER
Ohio State receiver Devier Posey?s stats through nine games last season compared to through nine games this season.
2009: 43 catches, 595 yards, 13.8 average, 6 touchdowns, 34.9 percent of OSU?s passing yards
2010: 40 catches, 601 yards, 15.0 average, 5 touchdowns, 27.4 percent of OSU?s passing yards

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Terrelle Pryor and DeVier Posey both noticed the one-on-one coverage late in the first half at Minnesota on Saturday night. In a season that hasn't been quite everything that Posey had hoped for, the Ohio State juniors were more than happy to take advantage of it.

"Every time we have man-to-man, we can do whatever we want, there's maybe five or six different routes," Pryor said after that 52-10 win over the Golden Gophers. "So we just did the signal for the go route and he did a good job of getting on top and I wanted to give him a good enough ball to make a play on."

Make a play -- it's what is always expected of Posey, but a few times in the middle of the season, it hasn't happened. A couple catchable passes off his hands, and you had to wonder what was going on with the player expected to be Ohio State's go-to receiver.

Nine games into the year, Posey's numbers are very close to what they were at this point last season. He has 40 catches for 601 yards and five touchdowns, compared to 43 catches for 595 yards and six touchdowns in 2009.

http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2010/11/ohio_states_devier_posey_stays.html

 

[Buckskin86]

Ohio State offensive spotlight: DeVier Posey
Friday, November 5, 2010
By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

DeVier Posey is back on the beam.

The Ohio State junior receiver went into this bye week knowing he had delivered a couple of big plays in the win at Minnesota. They included the coup de grace, the 38-yard touchdown pass from Terrelle Pryor just before halftime that Posey hauled in while falling backwards into the end zone to give OSU a 31-7 lead.

Posey beat man-to-man coverage to catch what he called "a great pass from Terrelle."

"It's been a long year, and you just pray for that," Posey said. "We drill one on one so much throughout the week with our defensive backs. You just want a chance for that in a game."

More than that, he saw it as a great opportunity to make something happen, especially considering a couple of those drops he had during the loss at Wisconsin two weeks earlier. At Minnesota he pulled in every pass thrown his way, leading the team with six catches for a season-high 115 yards.

He now has 40 catches on the year for 601 yards and five touchdowns, second on the team to his starting partner Dane Sanzenbacher's 42 catches for 658 yards and eight TDs.

In the last four games Posey had 22 catches for 340 yards, which he thinks sets him up well for the Big Ten stretch run against Penn State, Iowa and Michigan the next three weeks. And to boost his confidence he also can replay the video of him beating man-to-man coverage for the back-breaking 62-yard catch-and-run to a TD in the third quarter of the 24-7 win at Penn State last year, and of the twisting snare of the clinching TD pass in the Rose Bowl win over Oregon.

"I always want to contribute to the team and contribute to winning," Posey said. "If I get a chance, I just want to make that catch."

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/buckeyextra/stories/gameday/2010/week10/osu_spot_off.html

 

[BB73]

An extended interview session with DeVier after JT's presser today.

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REPORTER: DeVier, there was a lot of talk with Coach Tressel earlier about you guys at times getting off to a slow start, I don't know what you can do to prevent it, but do you guys recognize that? Do you talk about that, about how to avoid that?

DEVIER POSEY: I don't know how you avoid it. I mean, I know before the game, guys seemed like they were fired up, ready to go. I don't know if it's a play that does that to you or I don't really know how to avoid it, I don't have a formula for it.

REPORTER: On the flip side, you guys always counter punch, it seems, is that part of your personality on this team?

DEVIER POSEY: I don't know, maybe we play better fighting uphill, I don't know. I really don't have an answer, and I'm kind of stumped on that question.

REPORTER: Is it easier than not to think about what's at stake here or since you're a football team and you're well aware of this stuff, what all is out there?

DEVIER POSEY: Yeah, I think it's really easy to forget about all that, just being at Ohio State, you have such high expectations and I don't know if you guys heard the boos at halftime, I don't know, I mean, it's just how Ohio State fans are. It's just how college football is. You have high expectations, especially putting on a Scarlet and Gray jersey and it's kind of hard to -- I mean, it's kind of easy to forget about all that stuff because for me and for us, it's just a game that we play, football is a game that we love and I've been playing it since kindergarten every fall, so I don't know, it's just a game.

REPORTER: It's kind of like, if you win, you're still in the hunt for BCS, you're still in the hunt for Big Ten title, but if you lose, you could drop almost to the middle or the back in the Big Ten or at least third or fourth anyway. Have you thought very much about this, just what's riding on the game?

DEVIER POSEY: No, I really don't. We have a lot riding on it each week. You could ask me the same question last week. I don't know, I mean, we just really want to come out and just play and losing is really not in our mind. We focus on each play and we just want to win each play one at a time.

REPORTER: You guys talk a lot about running the ball in November, we saw a lot of that last year. How confident do you feel, if you have to go into this game this weekend and throw the ball a lot, how do you think that would go?

DEVIER POSEY: I think it would go well. Iowa's game plan is going to be to stop Boom and stop our running game so we better make sure we have both prepared. To me it really doesn't matter, whichever one works. I don't mean blocking in football, if a kid runs his butt off, Terrelle runs his butt off, guys line Zach Boren, if they get the opportunity, they'll do the same thing, but whichever formula is working, whichever gets us a W at the end.

REPORTER: When you think of what Terrelle's been able to do, is there a game that sticks out in your mind?

DEVIER POSEY: This season?

REPORTER: Just in his career.

DEVIER POSEY: I don't know. I mean, I'm trying to think back. I really can't recall a game where we had a perfect performance to Coach Tressel's standards or Coach Siciliano's standards. I really think that he played well --

REPORTER: How about the Rose Bowl?

DEVIER POSEY: Yeah, the Rose Bowl was a good game, but I'm trying to think more this season. I don't know, I mean, I really feel like he hasn't played up to his potential or his ability. I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean that in a way, that kid has so much ability in his body that you guys don't even realize. He runs a four-three. He's six-six. He can throw the ball, and, I don't know, I mean, I really don't know what a perfect game for a guy like that is. I guess he'd have to rush for, you know, 15 yards every play, complete every single pass, score every drive for you guys to say he had a perfect game. But I mean, he's a kid, he's not going to play perfect and we understand that, and that's just football, that's the game. Tom Brady throws interceptions too and, I don't know, but I feel like he holds himself to higher standards like that and he wants to have perfect games and he wants to throw every ball perfectly and, I don't know, I mean, just like me, I want to catch every pass, but that's just not football, it's not a perfect game.

REPORTER: How do you feel like you're playing, DeVier? Just kind of rate your performance.

DEVIER POSEY: I think I'm playing within our scheme. Ohio State -- I'm at Ohio State. It's just how things go here. I know in November we're first team and I'm fine with that, and I don't mind blocking, I don't mind getting out there and getting my hands dirty and I feel like I've been playing
pretty good.

REPORTER: You mentioned the boos, what was your reaction to that?

DEVIER POSEY: I didn't actually know until you guys told me after the game. My reaction after the game was, well, I really wasn't surprised, that's Ohio State it's just our fans, they're pretty spoiled, and we've got guys like Woody Hayes and Earle Bruce and Coach Tressel, those guys get a chance to spoil you.

REPORTER: Can you walk us through what happened at halftime, what Coach Tressel said?

DEVIER POSEY: I really can't repeat that. He got pretty animated. He definitely, you know, spilled his heart out to us and he challenged us, he challenged us to go out there the first play, you know, the kickoff team to make an impression and defense to get a stop and once we got the ball back in the huddle, he was like, you know, we had those -- we had that penalty and then we had another penalty, but his attitude didn't change. His eyebrows didn't go up. They were still down. And he was like, well, let's just make the drive a little bit longer. And as offense, we didn't really get discouraged by the penalty. I think B jumped offsides. I knew we had to go a couple more yards to get a score.

REPORTER: Were you surprised or shocked by the way he acted?

DEVIER POSEY: No, it was no surprise. Most of the time he comes in the locker room, but he was just -- his heel didn't stop moving and he was shaking his leg. I knew he had something to say. I just didn't know what it was going to be. He definitely got our team fired up and I think we needed that.

REPORTER: You said you needed that, is there any part of you that's disappointed that this team, this late in the year, would have needed that in a big game like that, or does that just happen sometimes and maybe you come out, you don't play a good half and you need a push or should this team be past that point where you need coach to get on you a little bit?

DEVIER POSEY: I don't really think that's the point. I don't really think that's the case. I'm pretty sure if Chip Kelly probably were in the locker room at that point, he'd probably do the same thing. I just think that's football, you know. Halftime speech is a part of the game and we needed a really motivational one at that point. But at that time in the game, nobody on our team felt like it was out of reach that bad.

I felt like we were there before this season. Wisconsin, I think it was 21-3 at half, and we came back out and made a surge back towards them and I felt like, everyone in the locker room knew that we could do that again, but I guess Wisconsin going out and trying to do that in the second half and us failing allowed us to succeed this time.

REPORTER: Just to be clear, DeVier, are you not repeating the halftime speech because you're trying to keep it private or are you implying the language was a little bit salty?

DEVIER POSEY: You can make a guess on that yourself.

REPORTER: You were talking about Terrelle earlier, talking about what standards he holds himself to, do you feel like that holds him back at all because he cares so much and tries too hard at times? Do you ever feel like that's sometimes a problem or not a good thing?

DEVIER POSEY: I don't know. I really don't know. Anytime we've got a guy like that, I mean, even me, myself, I mean, we want to be perfect. We have standards here we want to live up to, you know, what people say, and do what yourself is able to do. I don't know if it holds you back, but I feel like more than anything it keeps you motivated.

REPORTER: Terrelle coming back his senior season, what's your reaction to that and are you coming back?

DEVIER POSEY: No, I'm not surprised. I really would love for him to come back. That's definitely one of my goals and definitely on my agenda to come back. Me and him always sit down and talk about creating a legacy here, being able to, I say, live in Columbus forever, not physically, but be able to, when people see 2 jersey, they think about Terrelle, Number 8 jersey, they think about me. I don't know how to create that, but we probably need a senior season just to catch that off and I think coming in as a freshman, me being able to see guys like Laurinaitis and Robiskie, Hartline being a fifth-year guy, seeing the maturity, seeing how they handled football, they come into the Woody with a business-like attitude and I'm not sure that we have that, per se, now, but I mean, I don't know what happens between your junior year and senior year, but those guys had it and they got it, and being able to see that and witness that, and see guys like Malcolm Jenkins on his four-year plan, I don't know, you kind of want to be a part of that. You get to see the things that our seniors get to do. To be a captain around here is pretty amazing. I don't know, going into the NFL, you'd have to give all that stuff up. It's a decision that he's made and it's a decision that I'll have to make in a couple weeks and I don't know, I'll just think my way into it.

REPORTER: Will you test the waters, at least put your papers in with the draft committee to see where your stock is at?

DEVIER POSEY: Definitely that's on my agenda I'm sure all the guys like Brewster, Mike Adams, and Boom, I'm definitely put my papers in too just to see what's going on, but, like I was telling Dom before, you know, when you get to the NFL, it's the pinnacle, that's the last level of football. I don't know how much of a rush I am to get into that, to be almost done with the game, any injury, if anything happens, be able to leave all this comradery I have, all my best friends, guys that I've been through so much with, that's kind of hard to give up.

REPORTER: After you and Terrelle hooked up on that deep ball in that series, did you maybe think this is going to get the passing game going, we're really going to be able to throw the ball today? Did you feel like this might be a big throwing game for us after you guys did that off the bat?

DEVIER POSEY: Definitely. I hope for a big throwing day every Saturday. That's just my position. I don't know, I definitely thought like that play would be one that would help the game and maybe another big play, a big passing play would help the game like last year and we had one in the fourth quarter, the one I tipped to Dane, anytime you feel like a running game, Penn State, or the ball is going to be ran, that's just the game, between the two schools, but anytime you can get a momentum changing pass, that helps out a lot.

REPORTER: What did you think about the tipped play to Dane when you watched it on film?

DEVIER POSEY: I don't know, I really couldn't see. I remember like, in my mind, I felt a guy on my back and I saw somebody closing in on me so I thought, well, I'll just jump and try to catch it. And I jumped and had my hand on it and the guy smacked it out and I fell, and as soon as I hit the ground, I just heard a roar, and I was just like, I know I'm not at Penn State right now. So I got up and I saw Dane in the end zone with the ball, I didn't know what happened. While we were celebrating in the end zone, I was looking up at the screen to catch the replay.

REPORTER: Has Terrelle talked at all, have you all given him any grief about, you need to match Cam Newton, everybody is talking about you and Cam Newton, you look alike, do you bring that up at all? Is he aware of everyone making that comparison?

DEVIER POSEY: I don't know, we joked about a guy that looks exactly like Terrelle, they wear the same wristbands in the same place, the same shirts under their jersey, that's about as far as it goes.

REPORTER: Do you think he could be that kind of player? Could Terrelle play like Cam Newton?

DEVIER POSEY: I really don't know. They're two different players and I really just see the good stuff that Cam Newton does, I just see the ESPN highlights and I bet there are some guys that just see the good stuff Terrelle does, they just see the highlights. I really don't know what he does good and what he does bad and it's really hard for me to compare the two, I don't really get to study other than in our film room.

REPORTER: What do you know about Iowa?

DEVIER POSEY: They're a good team. They're a senior-led group. I know those guys don't have amnesia, they remember the last time we went against them. They remember the Barclay kick and just stepping in their shoes a little bit they probably felt like we slipped away with an easy one, slipped away with a win because Ricky Stanzi got hurt the week before we played them and the running back got hurt as well, so they probably feel like they're at full power now and just stepping in their shoes, they probably feel like they can beat us, on their home turf and it's going to be a good game. They're not going to let us just come in there and roll over them so we know we're going up there for a battle.

REPORTER: Can you talk about the exhilaration of Barclay's kick last year?
DEVIER POSEY: I don't know, I just thought my prayers were answered that night right before that kick. I just remember being on one knee right after that. After our defense got a stop, I kind of expected that Coach Bollman went would just run the ball, take it down and make sure the ball was in the middle of the field. Barclay, that kick is like a lay-up for him, he's made it a hundred times during camp and I just remember storming the field and having a lot of emotions going through my body that night, it was a great feeling.

 

[Buckskin86]

PRYOR SAID 'NO' TO THE NFL, WHAT ABOUT POSEY? ... Last week, Ohio State junior quarterback Terrelle Pryor announced that he would be returning for his senior season at Ohio State in 2011.

It really wasn't too much of a shock since Pryor had been indicating all along that he planned to play all four years for the Buckeyes.

Now, the NFL attention shifts to the Buckeyes other big-time junior prospect, wide receiver DeVier Posey.

Posey said that he'll hold off on that decision until after the season, but also hinted that he is leaning the same way as his quarterback.

"That's definitely one of my goals and definitely on my agenda to come back," Posey said.

The talented OSU wideout stated that he and Pryor want to be remembered as Buckeye legends, and the only way to really do that is to stay all four years.

"Me and (Pryor) always sit down and talk about creating a legacy here," Posey said. "Being able to, as I say, live in Columbus forever, not physically, but be able to, when people see a number 2 jersey, they think about Terrelle. When they see a number 8 jersey, they think about me.

"I don't know how to create that, but we probably need a senior season to do it."

Posey recalls being around former OSU stars like James Laurinaitis and Brian Robiskie - players who stayed at Ohio State for their senior seasons.

"I think about coming in as a freshman being able to see guys like Laurinatis, Robiskie and (Brian) Hartline, seeing the maturity, seeing how they handled football," Posey said. "They came into the Woody with a business-like attitude and I'm not sure that we have that, per se, now.

"I don't know what happens between your junior year and senior year, but those guys had it."

Posey has 43 receptions this season, with 664 yards and five touchdowns.

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20101117/SPORTS/101119545/1085/SPORTS03

 

[Buckskin86]

Ohio State notes: Posey's drop isn't costly, is humbling (with video)
Published: Sunday, November 21, 2010
By John Kampf
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IOWA CITY ? Had Ohio State not won on Saturday, this one would have stuck with DeVier Posey for a while.

The normally sure-handed junior from Dayton was wide open in the end zone when he dropped a pass from quarterback Terrelle Pryor late in Ohio State's 20-17 win over Iowa on Saturday.

After the ball slipped through his hands, Posey ? who caught two passes for 32 yards in the game ? fell to his back in agony and placed his hands on his head in disbelief. A few feet away, OSU Mascot Brutus did the exact same thing.

Fortunately for Posey ? and Brutus ? Ohio State scored a handful of plays later.

"I went down, I saw the ball, and to me it felt like it was in the air forever," Posey said. "I've caught so many deep balls in my career. That one got away from me. I think I relaxed too much. It happens to the best of us."

Posey is one of the most consistent receivers on the Buckeyes. He has 47 catches this season, four behind team leader Dane Sanzenbacher.

"A play like that humbles me as a person and humbles me as a player," Posey said. "It means I have to get back to work."

http://news-herald.com/articles/2010/11/21/sports/nh3321314.txt

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

http://news-herald.com/articles/2010/11/21/sports/nh3321314.txt

Great to hear the kids talk about the drop honestly like he did. Its a good sign for sure, if you don't have a good head on your shoulders this is the type of drop that would stay with a guy. Glad to hear he's ready to get back to work and improve.

 

[matcar]

Great to hear the kids talk about the drop honestly like he did. Its a good sign for sure, if you don't have a good head on your shoulders this is the type of drop that would stay with a guy. Glad to hear he's ready to get back to work and improve.

I'm not sure what it is about DP, but he drops more balls that I'd expect. He's still an awesome weapon but I hope he can improve on this aspect of his game.

 

[cjmik_75]

Drops are not always a physical thing, but the biggest hurdle is the mental block the receiver needs to overcome. The negative thought that goes through their mind: "Don't drop it. Don't drop it. Don't drop it." instead of the positive mental image.

I'm not bashing Devier, really. I just think it's been a mental thing for him because he definitely has the physical tools to be great.

He'll work through it and be better because of it.

 

[shetuck]

Folks (some / a lot / most?) are treating this as a no-brainer catch. That was the tone on the broadcast last night. I think the truth is that we've become so used to DP making these overhead catches seem so routine that we've started to take them for granted.

I can't help cringing every time I see that replay, but I also try and keep perspective that as much as it was a perfectly thrown ball to a wide-open receiver, it was by no stretch of the imagination an easy play to make... over the shoulder, in a tight spot (sideline no more than 1 or 2 strides away), high arc slightly wobbly ball, light all over the place overhead.

I'm not making excuses for DP, but I want to make sure that we give him a little bit of a break from our own possibly inflated expectations - especially on a night where TP had as much trouble putting his passes on the money as any time this season.

 

[shetuck]

...he drops more balls that I'd expect...

No fair...

Do you mean he doesn't measure up to your expectations or that he's a lousy receiver, or that he's a great receiver but he get the dropsies?

In either case, I'm not really sure what you're trying to measure or point out.

To me, he's been fairly dependable. He's caught balls that most guys at that level wouldn't even be able to lock in on. I haven't looked at his stats, but I think your "impression" is based on his last game and that's just a bit of piling on, I think.

 

[NFBuck]

No fair...

Do you mean he doesn't measure up to your expectations or that he's a lousy receiver, or that he's a great receiver but he get the dropsies?

In either case, I'm not really sure what you're trying to measure or point out.

To me, he's been fairly dependable. He's caught balls that most guys at that level wouldn't even be able to lock in on. I haven't looked at his stats, but I think your "impression" is based on his last game and that's just a bit of piling on, I think.

I think he's just pointing out that he's dropped quite a few balls this year. At least more than you'd expect from an elite-type receiver. I don't know the numbers, and maybe it is just over-inflated expectations, but it does seem that way sometimes. Does that make DeVier a bad receiver/player? Certainly not, just means there's something he has to work on.

 

[shetuck]

I think he's just pointing out that he's dropped quite a few balls this year. At least more than you'd expect from an elite-type receiver. I don't know the numbers, and maybe it is just over-inflated expectations, but it does seem that way sometimes. Does that make DeVier a bad receiver/player? Certainly not, just means there's something he has to work on.

Fair enough...

I don't know how to get those stats either. According to the official site, there have only been two dropped passes this season: one for Corey Brown in the Marshall game and the second for Posey in the Wisconsin game.

The drop from last night isn't recorded as a dropped pass in the official stats.