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  On 1/13/2025 at 3:48 AM, DZX158 said:

The cowboys drafted 5’5 Deuce Vaughn in the 6th rd. If Blue runs in the low 4.4s someone will draft him in the later rounds.

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Deuce had an advantage that Blue doesn’t. 

Posted
  On 1/13/2025 at 3:48 AM, DZX158 said:

The cowboys drafted 5’5 Deuce Vaughn in the 6th rd. If Blue runs in the low 4.4s someone will draft him in the later rounds.

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In the case of Deuce, his dad literally works for the cowboys so I don't know if Blue has that same advantage. Also Vaughn comes across as a "do whatever it takes for the team" type of guy, and Blue is not that.

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  On 1/13/2025 at 3:37 AM, D3zii said:

What’s the point of recruiting all these high caliber players if we’re just gonna give them spots cause they’ve been here longer even though they might not be better 

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that sounds like something mack would do.  I think the best players will play.

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Blue is a mid-to-late Day 3 pick at best. Draft averages about 20 RBs a year and 20ish is right where I would have him rated. 

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  On 1/13/2025 at 3:57 AM, Cap Hooked said:

In the case of Deuce, his dad literally works for the cowboys so I don't know if Blue has that same advantage. Also Vaughn comes across as a "do whatever it takes for the team" type of guy, and Blue is not that.

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Hometown discount? 
 

I’ve heard of teams doing that 

Posted
  On 1/13/2025 at 3:48 AM, DZX158 said:

The cowboys drafted 5’5 Deuce Vaughn in the 6th rd. If Blue runs in the low 4.4s someone will draft him in the later rounds.

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I’m still not in a spot where I can be my usual nice and polished self, so I’m just going to be brief and say that this is a terrible fucking take. 

  On 1/13/2025 at 4:33 AM, MrX said:

Blue is a mid-to-late Day 3 pick at best. Draft averages about 20 RBs a year and 20ish is right where I would have him rated. 

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You clearly haven’t looked at the RB list for this draft. The fucking stud RB from UNC is ranked as low as the late teens by some services. There are known hosses all over the top 30 this year. Blue ain’t one of them. He will need to run a low 4.2 to get into the top 20 and he’s not Xavier Worthy. 

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  On 1/13/2025 at 4:50 AM, 6th Street said:

Blue is 7th round/UDFA. He's going to need to make it as a special teams and 3rd down guy if he ever wants to leave the practice squad.

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Did he ever even play special teams?  I seem to remember he returned kicks a couple of times but don't ever remember him making a tackle or downing a punt.

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No but he will need to make some plays in training camp if he wants to stick. NFL teams keep 4 RBs on the roster so if you're the 3rd or 4th guy you need to be able to play special teams.

Posted
  On 1/13/2025 at 3:25 AM, Atticus said:

Last year's draft was more shallow than usual due to NIL keeping more guys in college an extra year. RB was especially weak last year. This year it's stacked at that position as a result. 

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  On 1/13/2025 at 3:21 AM, texifornia said:

Robinson was a special teams demon. Blue is not that.

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Yeah I mean we’ll see. He may get one of those undrafted tryout deals then. Again, I wouldn’t be surprised either way about what happens. 

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  On 1/13/2025 at 5:00 AM, Get ln My Van said:

Blue will run in the low 4.3s and come off the board in round 3 or 4 is my call. NFL loves unteachable traits.

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I will bet you any amount of money that you’d like to risk on this premise. Just tell me the amount and I’ll take the other side of it. 

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Posted
  On 1/13/2025 at 4:50 AM, 6th Street said:

Blue is 7th round/UDFA. He's going to need to make it as a special teams and 3rd down guy if he ever wants to leave the practice squad.

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Honestly, being  on the practice squad isn't a bad gig.

Depending on the team you can make between $225k-$382, 4i00..

6 Rookies and 2ns year players make $12k.500-!$[21.300 was a week 

Veterans - make between $16m.

Posted
  On 1/13/2025 at 3:01 AM, closetojumping said:

 

The guy is a deeply flawed prospect coming out in what may be the deepest RB draft ever. If he gets drafted, I’ll be stunned. 

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This class is loaded and wouldnt be worth picking nits over this statement, but I was curious and looked it up and its hilarious that the Cowboys drafted a RB in the 1st round of this draft that didn't merit mention on this graphic

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We drafted Felix Jones and some spare tight end instead of Desean Jackson or Jordy Nelson and Jamaal Charles despite having a Hall of Fame tight end in his prime and needing a #2 WR so badly that 5 games into the season we traded 2 future first round picks for Roy Williams

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Posted (edited)
  On 1/13/2025 at 12:34 PM, Duane Moore said:

Blue draft talk not going away

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Our running back room in the spring consists of Tre, Gibson, and if they are early arrivals, Simon and Stewart (who I'm not too impressed with).

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  On 1/13/2025 at 12:57 PM, RomaVicta said:

The fact is that Blue has announced he's leaving for the NFL. The discussion should be what Texas will do about it.

Fuck off with speculating about the combine or pointlessly arguing when someone will be drafted. Here, nobody cares. 

It's boring. No high fives for guessing Blue's 40 time to the hundredth of a second.

I know it's a terrifying prospect, but I'm going to neg this shit from here on out. That's right: neg. You're all on notice.

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Go ahead. Let’s have a neg off. Your whining here about something that is readily part of the miasma of discussion in this thread is as much of a drag as us discussing a guy’s draft prospects who may still also declare himself to the portal. 

That’s an over the top reaction due to your own personal preferences. 

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Posted (edited)
  On 1/11/2025 at 7:51 PM, Atticus said:

Yea if we had options, it would be great to move on from Bond. But if he comes back without it breaking the bank, we could really use his speed element and he would hopefully know the offense better next year. 

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  On 1/11/2025 at 7:43 PM, Newy25 said:


I’m not sure we even want Bond back. For the cost we need a lot more production out of a veteran wide receiver. Taaffe coming back is a bit of a surprise. 

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Before he got hurt vs OU he had 20 catches for 364 yards or 18.2 per catch

After he got hurt he has 14 for 176 or 12.5 YPC and very very clearly wasn't the same player

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A healthy Bond is the best WR on the team. Including Golden. 

Come on y'all!

Edit: not talking about if he's a shit head or fucking around. But acting like he Ain't Shit when healthy is fucking dumb.

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For those that know - how are we doing overall in NIL coffers?  Has One Fund participation increased over the course of another successful season?  I'm guessing price of success comes with heavy retention costs for numerous future NFL players on our roster that are currently draft ineligible not to mention a raise for guys on the fence we talk into staying.

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  On 1/13/2025 at 12:44 AM, Jimmy Two Times said:

Very curious to see if we portal in a starting-caliber RB with Blue moving on. Choice, to his credit, seems to really like and have loyalty to his guys, but if you swapped RBs in the Cotton Bowl we’d be playing for the title right now. 

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He's already on the team 

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  On 1/13/2025 at 2:54 PM, NoName said:

He's already on the team 

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He is coming off ACL/LCL surgery and had slight damage to his PCL that did no require surgery so who knows how up to speed he will be by fall camp or game 1. It is not a smart decision to rely on a running back room that consist of the following:

 

Tre Wisner
CJ Baxter - Injury mentioned above
Jerrick Gibson
Christian Clark - Achilles tear surgery. Also not smart to bank on him being completely ready to go by seasons star.
Rickey Stewart - True Freshmen
James Simon - True Freshmen

Our spring roster is essentially 4 backs, two of which are early enrollees. 

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Posted
  On 1/13/2025 at 2:54 PM, NoName said:

He's already on the team 

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Think we'll bring in a portal back regardless. Even if Baxter is 100% they'll probably want someone with Keilan Robinson/Blue ability to score from anywhere and we don't really have that now.

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  On 1/13/2025 at 2:58 PM, AlrightAlrightAlright said:

He is coming off ACL/LCL surgery and had slight damage to his PCL that did no require surgery so who knows how up to speed he will be by fall camp or game 1. It is not a smart decision to rely on a running back room that consist of the following:

 

Tre Wisner
CJ Baxter - Injury mentioned above
Jerrick Gibson
Christian Clark - Achilles tear surgery. Also not smart to bank on him being completely ready to go by seasons star.
Rickey Stewart - True Freshmen
James Simon - True Freshmen

Our spring roster is essentially 4 backs, two of which are early enrollees. 

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There is literally nothing about Choice that says he's going to go fuck his room up to bring in someone else to be the starter.

The odds of the starting RB week 1 next year being one of Wisner, Gibson or Baxter is as close to a fucking lock as I can imagine on the team, just behind Arch being the starter next year.

Clark is who knows but screwing up your RB room after all that Choice has said about loving his guys is a mistake.

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Posted
  On 1/13/2025 at 3:00 PM, Red Five said:

Think we'll bring in a portal back regardless. Even if Baxter is 100% they'll probably want someone with Keilan Robinson/Blue ability to score from anywhere and we don't really have that now.

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Those guys don't grow on trees and K Rob had a connection/history with Sark that nobody else out there has right now.

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  On 1/13/2025 at 3:01 PM, NoName said:

There is literally nothing about Choice that says he's going to go fuck his room up to bring in someone else.

The odds of the starting RB being one of Wisner, Gibson or Baxter is as close to a fucking lock as I can imagine on the team, just behind Arch being the starter next year.

Clark is who knows but screwing up your RB room after all that Choice has said about loving his guys is a mistake.

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Did Ohio State screw up their running back room when they lured Judkins to the portal and signed him? After all they had Henderson on the roster who was a 5 star. What happens if Baxter has a set back in his recovery or reinjures himself? That would put us back in the same exact spot as we were this year.

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Posted
  On 1/13/2025 at 12:57 PM, RomaVicta said:

The fact is that Blue has announced he's leaving for the NFL. The discussion should be what Texas will do about it.

Fuck off with speculating about the combine or pointlessly arguing when someone will be drafted. Here, nobody cares. 

It's boring. No high fives for guessing Blue's 40 time to the hundredth of a second.

I know it's a terrifying prospect, but I'm going to neg this shit from here on out. That's right: neg. You're all on notice.

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  On 1/13/2025 at 2:37 PM, closetojumping said:

Go ahead. Let’s have a neg off. Your whining here about something that is readily part of the miasma of discussion in this thread is as much of a drag as us discussing a guy’s draft prospects who may still also declare himself to the portal. 

That’s an over the top reaction due to your own personal preferences. 

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Why don’t you two neggers just take a deep breath and see how see how things resolve themselves over the next few hours.

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Posted
  On 1/13/2025 at 3:00 PM, Red Five said:

Think we'll bring in a portal back regardless. Even if Baxter is 100% they'll probably want someone with Keilan Robinson/Blue ability to score from anywhere and we don't really have that now.

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I'd rather grab someone who can get three-four yards in between the tackles. 

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Posted
  On 1/13/2025 at 3:04 PM, LCHorn said:

I'd rather grab someone who can get three-four yards in between the tackles. 

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This might be where we need to have an honest discussion about Jerrick Gibson. If that's not him then, well,.....

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Posted
  On 1/13/2025 at 3:04 PM, AlrightAlrightAlright said:

Did Ohio State screw up their running back room when they lured Judkins to the portal and signed him? After all they had Henderson on the roster who was a 5 star. What happens if Baxter has a set back in his recovery or reinjures himself? That would put us back in the same exact spot as we were this year.

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Is there another Q Judkins type RB out there that I'm not aware of?

Happy if there is but there isn't. Also the OSU coach didn't come out a bunch of times and say how much he loves his room, how guys and wants to see them compete.

Locklyn != Choice.

tOSU RB Room != Texas RB Room

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  On 1/13/2025 at 3:06 PM, Red Five said:

This might be where we need to have an honest discussion about Jerrick Gibson. If that's not him then, well,.....

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He averaged 4.8 YPC as a freshman and gashed the hell out of UF.

If he isn't the power RB next year after being the power RB as a true freshman, that's some major regression on his part.

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Posted
  On 1/13/2025 at 2:58 PM, AlrightAlrightAlright said:

He is coming off ACL/LCL surgery and had slight damage to his PCL that did no require surgery so who knows how up to speed he will be by fall camp or game 1. It is not a smart decision to rely on a running back room that consist of the following:

 

Tre Wisner
CJ Baxter - Injury mentioned above
Jerrick Gibson
Christian Clark - Achilles tear surgery. Also not smart to bank on him being completely ready to go by seasons star.
Rickey Stewart - True Freshmen
James Simon - True Freshmen

Our spring roster is essentially 4 backs, two of which are early enrollees. 

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We better grab a running back in the portal so we do not lose the Spring game. 

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Posted
  On 1/13/2025 at 3:10 PM, NoName said:

Is there another Q Judkins type RB out there that I'm not aware of?

Happy if there is but there isn't. Also the OSU coach didn't come out a bunch of times and say how much he loves his room, how guys and wants to see them compete.

Locklyn != Choice.

tOSU RB Room != Texas RB Room

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There were some pretty good running backs in the portal we could have went after and those include:

Makhi Hughes(Tulane > Oregon)
Justice Haynes(Alabama > Michigan)
CJ Donaldson(WVU > Ohio St)
Ahmad Hardy(ULM > Missouri)
 

Posted
  On 1/13/2025 at 4:47 AM, closetojumping said:

I’m still not in a spot where I can be my usual nice and polished self, so I’m just going to be brief and say that this is a terrible fucking take. 

You clearly haven’t looked at the RB list for this draft. The fucking stud RB from UNC is ranked as low as the late teens by some services. There are known hosses all over the top 30 this year. Blue ain’t one of them. He will need to run a low 4.2 to get into the top 20 and he’s not Xavier Worthy. 

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My bet is if he runs under a 4.35 he gets drafted in line the 6th or 7th round. If he doesn’t he’s udfa. 

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