North Texas Mean Green: Keys To The Season, Top Game, Top Transfer, Fun Stats
North Texas Mean Green: Key To The 2022 Offense
The passing game has to be more accurate and efficient.
The goal will be to keep the fun going with the high-powered running game, but the receivers are way too good to not be used more.
The North Texas quarterbacks were okay – Austin Aune stepped up late – but they combined to hit just 52% of their passes with 12 touchdowns and 14 interceptions.
The yards should be there again, but if the passing attack can get to around 60% and if the interceptions can slow down, the offense will go to another level.
North Texas Mean Green: Key To The 2022 Defense
The pass rush has to come from the defensive front.
North Texas got a slew of plays in the backfield from LB KD Nixon, and a few sacks trickled in from other spots, but Grayson and Gabriel Murphy accounted for most of the sacks from their end spots, and Dion Norvell and Kameron Hill each added four to the mix.
22.5 of the 38 sacks are gone from those four linemen, and now the Mean Green need to find production from somewhere up front. And that’s why …
North Texas Mean Green: Key Player To The 2022 Season
DT Roderick Brown, Soph.
It’s going to take a while to find the right ends who can do anything close to what Grayson and Gabriel Murphy were able to do on the outside – there’s no sure-thing depth to form any sort of a rotation.
The top returning production for the line comes from a 6-1, 285-pound sophomore. Brown made three sacks and four tackles for loss with 20 tackles. Combining with fellow sophomore Enoch Jackson, the experience is in the interior.
Now the ends have to rise up.
North Texas Mean Green: Key Transfer
QB Grant Gunnell, Soph.
Is he finally home?
The Texas native was great at Arizona in his freshman year – throwing for 1,239 yards and nine touchdowns with pick – but he got hurt as a sophomore and only played four games, left for Memphis, didn’t play, and now he’s here in Denton.
He’s got the 6-6, 228-pound size, the accuracy that was missing from last year’s passing game, and he can run just enough to get around.
North Texas Key Game To The 2022 Season
at UTSA, Oct. 22
The Mean Green have a rough run in the second half of the season with three road games in four dates. They’ll likely be underdogs at WKU and UAB, and it might take a win in San Antonio to make a push for a bowl game.
The 45-23 win last year was a big moment in the season and for the program, but it was also the game before UTSA was off to the Conference USA Championship – it didn’t exactly bring the A game.
North Texas has won four of the last five in the series. It needs to add one to the pile.
North Texas Mean Green: 2021 Fun Stats
– Sacks: North Texas 38 for 264 yards – Opponents 17 for 96 yards
– 1st Quarter Scoring: Opponents 86 – North Texas 51
– Fumbles: Opponents 26 (lost 12) – North Texas 13 (lost 4)
Offense, Defense Breakdown
Season Prediction, What Will Happen
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