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  1. 1 hour ago, Cooley said:

    Any Iowa State DB’s in the portal?

    Would like to have had a Texas connection and/or DC experience at a known university. 
     

    Anyone know if we’re looking at 3 or 4 man front?

    Here are all the Iowa State defenders in the portal:

    from Texas:

    https://247sports.com/Player/Mason-Chambers-46081367/
    https://247sports.com/Player/Jayden-Gray-46100308/  (He was offered by UNT out of high school. Looks like he has been liking UNT related tweets so would not be surprised to see him transfer here!)

    Not from Texas:

    https://247sports.com/Player/Tayvonn-Kyle-46038606/

    https://247sports.com/Player/Blake-Peterson-46037127/

     

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  2. On 10/28/2021 at 4:57 PM, Cougar King said:

    Mel Kiper has Hall as the 5th best defensive lineman and a late 1st round projected pick. He also leads the AAC in sacks.

     

    Littrell missed on this one for sure.

    Just got drafted at #33 overall too. 

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  3. As a die-hard Bucs fan and UNT alum, I can tell you first hand that Darden has had a pretty terrible season. He hasn’t been used much on offense due to depth and bc it is fairly clear he doesn’t have a good understanding of the playbook yet. Even on one of his best offensive plays of the year, it was an endaround handoff that TB12 and all the skill players had to yell at Darden and gesture for him to go in motion and he looked like he had no idea what was going on. He has also run pretty lazy routes when he does get to play WR. Almost everytime he touches the ball he falls down before getting tackled and has not had much success as a returner.

    The Bucs have a complex offense with lots of option routes, and he has clearly struggled to transition to it. He also has definitely struggled with his size as he can’t just win with his speed like he did at UNT and has had a lot of trouble separating and lack of strength on the outside. Luckily he will still be around until next season due to his draft status, so he still has some time to improve. However, the start of his NFL career has been about as bad as it could be. Part of it is just a bad fit in the Bucs offense as their slot receivers are used as run blockers and are usually bigger (think Larry Fitzgerald) so he is strictly an outside WR. Still holding out Hope and obviously rooting for him to succeed more than anyone, but it has not been promising. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, Monkeypox said:

    Standard roster move, if I had to guess. They needed to bring up some OL depth with Jensen with a hip injury. Darden likely needed some time to get up to speed with the NFL, and may still, but he has more upside and versatility than Mickens, who's a 27-yr-old practice squad journeyman.

    It's up to Darden to keep the job now.

    Yes, this is what happened. They had a reserve OL get healthy off of IR so they had to release someone to activate him. There are only a few guys that they could release and with how deep they are at WR, they couldn’t keep 6 WRs at the moment. I bet that Mickens is back on the practice squad though so they theoretically could elevate him up to be the KR/PR for the next 2 games before having to bring him back onto the active roster. Or they could be giving Darden a full-time shot.

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  5. 8 hours ago, greenminer said:

    I feel the same way about this as I do overtime rules in the NFL.

    Darden was not allowed to dress for G1 and Mickens gets the nod because "he played well in the opener"...."?

    An NFL team can lose in OT because the other side wins the coin toss and scores first, and they aren't even allowed to respond.  "Nah, just go home and take the L.

    The League can be strange to me sometimes.

     

    20 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

    You have to think something happened that was not made public. With all of the positives from the preseason and now this sudden shift makes you wonder

    Honestly it is just bc Darden struggled in the return game during the preseason. He had a great camp at the start but kinda fizzled out toward the end and had struggles in all of the preseason games. He is WR6 on the depth chart so his only path to be active at the moment was to take the return job. As a UNT alum, I’m obviously rooting for him, but he was given every opportunity to win the return job but didn’t capitalize on it and Mickens has a history of being a pretty decent returner in the NFL.

    Also toward the end of camp and the preseason, Darden struggled a bit on offense with drops and routes. The Bucs run a lot of option routes and he read the defense incorrectly a couple times which led to at least 1 interception in the preseason. The Bucs have a very complicated offense (according to Tom Brady it took him until like week 13 to fully understand and be confident in it), so it will take some time.

    He still has a lot of potential and the Bucs still really like him, but unfortunately with them being squarely in their Super Bowl window, they can’t always wait on potential to develop and have to rely on what they know. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, Jonnyeagle said:

    Maybe just trying to protect him for the real season?

    They played the starters for the first quarter and Darden didn’t really play until the 3rd string came out. But he by far had his best game of the preseason. Had 3 catches for 35 yards with a long of 26 yards. He also had a very nice 17 yard punt return.

    In other UNT news, Hambone had a really nice sack and had some other good rushes. Definitely a good final impression to leave right before final cuts.

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