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Looks like the 6th round draft pick got his first NFL start last week due to an injury, and will probably start again this week.
Bucs Inactives: Keydrick Vincent and Earnest Graham out, Ted Larsen and Erik Lorig starting - Tampa Bay Buccaneers News: BucNews.com
Last week vs St Louis:
Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive line remains in state of flux - St. Petersburg Times
For next Sunday's game:
Tampa Bay Buccaneers news and notes - St. Petersburg Times
Although apparently Larsen was one of several players to make a rookie mistake after Tampa Bay took the lead with time still remaining on the clock.
So with the benefit of hindsight, I can't help but wonder if the Pats would have been better off IR'ing Kaczur at the end of training camp and keeping Larsen on the 53-man roster. Or if they had done that, would the Pats have kept another player anyways? Would have been nice to see how much he progressed with Dante working with him for a year.
Bucs Inactives: Keydrick Vincent and Earnest Graham out, Ted Larsen and Erik Lorig starting - Tampa Bay Buccaneers News: BucNews.com
Last week vs St Louis:
With Graham and Vincent out, Erik Lorig at FB and Ted Larsen at OG will get their first starts.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive line remains in state of flux - St. Petersburg Times
For next Sunday's game:
But with the status of T Jeremy Trueblood (knee) and G Keydrick Vincent (back spasms) in question, rookie G Ted Larsen, C Jeremy Zuttah and T James Lee could play significant roles Sunday against the Cardinals.
Larsen, a graduate of Palm Harbor U. High who made his NFL debut Sunday, is eager for the chance at his second start and believes he learned a lot from his first.
"You only get so many opportunities, and you have to take advantage of them," he said.
T Donald Penn told Larsen a story before Sunday's game, pointing out how he got his first start, Oct. 7, 2007, against the Patriots, after Luke Petitgout tore his ACL, and now has started 50 consecutive games.
"I said, 'I got in a game, and I've never gotten out since,' " Penn said. "I said, 'It's up to you to do it.' It happens that fast."
Tampa Bay Buccaneers news and notes - St. Petersburg Times
Although apparently Larsen was one of several players to make a rookie mistake after Tampa Bay took the lead with time still remaining on the clock.
Morris knew the closing moments of Sunday's 18-17 victory over the Rams would be a little crazy if the Bucs scored the go-ahead touchdown.
So just before Freeman passed for the winning touchdown to RB Cadillac Williams with 17 seconds left, the coach implored his assistants to help him corral players for a two-point conversion.
It didn't help.
"Before we scored, I was confident our offense was going to be able to get the ball in the end zone," Morris said. "I had to let them know, my coaches, that we were going to have to round them up. We are an average age of about 26. So I knew they were going to go nuts and we were going to have to go get those guys for the two-point conversion.
"I found (guard Ted) Larsen. … I had to run over there and grab him and make sure he knew we were going for the two-point conversion. And I didn't say it in those words.
"I think Freeman was somewhere entangled between the (first-down) chains, crawling over them. Cadillac was doing the Lambeau Leap, and Larsen was kind of strolling along the sideline. We almost didn't have a left guard.
So with the benefit of hindsight, I can't help but wonder if the Pats would have been better off IR'ing Kaczur at the end of training camp and keeping Larsen on the 53-man roster. Or if they had done that, would the Pats have kept another player anyways? Would have been nice to see how much he progressed with Dante working with him for a year.
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