Wrong! Even the best players need good players and coaches around them to be successful. It's hard to shine on a terrible defense when opposing QB has all day to throw, and teams can run the ball at will against the front 7. Joseph will likely improve significantly on a very good ND defense with very good coaches.
NFL scouts always confer with corbi the Football Knower before making any assessments
The tape doesn't lie. Defensive coaches and schemes don't miss tackles, take wrong angles or refuse to tackle ballcarriers above the ankles. Believe it or not, players do that all by themselves.
Why would he?
First of all, it's not that great of a safety class. Other than Hamilton there is no clear first round safety prospect. Secondly, Brandon entered the portal the day after the NFL Advisory Committee sent out their evaluations to underclassmen that had requested them. Had they given him a first or second day grade, he would not be heading to ND, he would have declared. He is a 3rd day pick right now and will stay that way unless he shows he is a willing and able player in run support.
Brandon Joseph has averaged more tackles per game the last two years than Kyle Hamilton. Brandon Joseph ranked 45th amongst all DBs this year in total tackles per game this year so you can knock off the “willing and able” ****. He certainly can improve, especially on angles, and he feels like playing for Marcus Freeman gives him a better chance than playing in a scheme cooked up by noted failure Jim O’Neil. When you have backs running through the DLine and LBs untouched it makes the job of a safety significantly harder so I’m not sure why anyone that is putting tape together would want to play for our defense again.
I think so, too (just like Ben)
The missed tackles were certainly an issue in 2021, but data has shown that stat can vary greatly from year to year. Very similar to drop rates for WRs.
He needs to show more than that Corbi. Right now he’s too small for his game speed and too slow for his limited size for the NFL. If he had the physical tools of a top 100 draft choice, he would probably be a better, more consistent tackler and have chosen to declare.
Condition: His new name can't have any of the following letters: c, k, g, o, n, u.
As for his surrounding cast on defense, both DE Foskey & DT Ademilola announced they are coming back yesterday, and both were expected to be early round draft choices.
He turned down Duke (confirmed) and two other P5 HC jobs (not confirmed), along with G5 jobs.
The NIL issue I know for a fact from the inside. He wasn't going to be able to do that at NU. He also raised his profile and his draft stock by moving to a national level defense. Whatever his playing weaknesses, playing on one of the worst defenses in the nation last year wasn't helping him at all. It hurts me when any of our players leave before graduating, given the fact that we tout that the NU degree is worth a lot. However, I feel the calculus has changed now with NIL - big players can get paid in college and the first or second rounders who can do their tenure in the NFL can probably make as much over a lifetime as the average NU graduate (I don't have numbers to support this, just a back of the napkin calculation).
I don't disagree. But he was an ALL-AMERICAN playing ball hawk. Meaning he wasn't just good, he was the best. It would behoove him to find a defense that can support and showcase those talents while perhaps working on what corbi is pointing out on tackling and angles.
He makes a great point about the quality of the defense--NU is now one of the worst--no disputing that. Maybe, just maybe they will play him to make use of his strength, which was the case when he was so productive?
The best, most productive college players often have little chance of making it in the NFL. We need look no further than our own HC to see the best example of that. Or look more recently at Austin Carr. Nearly unstoppable and the BIG's WR of the year as a senior who went undrafted and has been at best a fringe NFL player.
It is beyond me why anyone would get upset about a transfer in post NIL football. With huge numbers of players putting themselves out there for a payday, I would expect a lot of mid-undergraduate-career transfers as SOP. It is just business. Nothing personal. ‘Team‘ doesn’t mean anything beyond a single season.
Whether this is true or not is irrelevant to the transfer at hand. Everyone of those best players *believed* they could make it in the NFL and acted accordingly. Maximizing his chances, which means doing what he did and shedding us, was the best move for Brandon given that belief.
Do YOU believe Joseph’s chances of getting drafted in the NFL have improved by transferring to ND? If so, why?
To paraphrase you, it doesn't matter what I think. It matters what he thinks. I know for a fact that one of the reasons that factored into his decision was NIL. The rest if it is just speculation we do to keep ourselves entertained.
I can’t speak to the NIL angle but I can tell you his motivation for leaving NU and entering the portal was an erroneous belief that he needed to leave NU to improve his draft stock. I’ll say again, it’s no coincidence he entered the portal the day after receiving his evaluation from the NFL Draft Advisory Committee. What other factors he considered to decide on ND after they became an option once he was in the portal is not relevant to the point I am making.
The hubris it takes to write a statement like this is astounding. To think that corbi, a know nothing who has never been involved in football in a professional capacity, who doesn’t do anything more than watch football on tv and talk **** on the internet, understands better than the player himself on what he needs to do for his professional career. LMAO
It's his decision and his future. Whether you believe he made the right or wrong decision is irrelevant.
I’ll wade back into this conversation because this thread seems somewhat less horrible:
I agree with every word of this post but one. Erroneous. Let's say the young man was entirely clear-headed and accepts the Corbi definition of his failure to perform at 1st/2nd round level this year. Now, I personally feel that a large part of this was JON's direction and defense, but let's say he just did poorly in his expanded role. When I say poorly, I mean now he is in UDFA level. So - he knows he needs to improve....