Doesn't shock me one freaking bit. ND will be fine without him
"Those two games you mentioned - the Florida State one and the Miami one - those will not go unnoticed. An NFL front office man will fall in love with the tape from one or both of those games and say, 'We need to take a risk on this guy.'
"I'm not saying it won't work out. But just reading everything coming out there right now - which echoes everything we heard while he was at Notre Dame - the anonymous quote from an NFC director of scouting on NFL.com right now says, 'He's a character flag for us. He's talented but I just don't think he loves the game enough for me to back him in our room. Who doesn't love those long arms? We all do, but I think he's lazy and will head south as soon as he has more time and money on his hands.'
"And when you go up to weaknesses, kind of the same thing: Scouts consider him unmotivated and question his football character. Doesn't treat offseason as a time to get better. Sources say Irish coaches had to work overtime to keep him interested and working to get better.
"I did notice a much more mature Jarron Jones in interviews from his first year at Notre Dame to the end of his last year, especially on Senior Day. But let’s not beat around the bush here. He did not play - was it Navy or Army? They all kind of blend together for me right now. But the Navy game, I think, he barely played because he doesn’t like playing option teams. For me, that’s a red flag. When you have guys like Isaac Rochell and other people on defense busting their butts on a 4-8 team and you have a fifth-year senior who doesn’t want to play because he’s afraid to get hurt, that’s the stuff that red flags are made of. That’s going to be a fire alarm for a lot of people looking at the tape and looking at his situation.
“He was, by all accounts - and I was sent a photo from someone who was there that night - he was at The Linebacker the night Devin Butler got arrested and was not exactly acting like an angel himself. He had to have some closed door meetings with Irish coaches about that over that weekend. He was described to me going into this season as a cancer on the team by a teammate of his. I'm just - as you said, the Florida State and Miami games, he looked amazing. He looked like a guy who is going to be a very successful NFL player. He's just going to need to change a lot about himself the other six days of the week and really the other nine months of the year based on everything I’ve been told to make this work as a professional football player."
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"Those two games you mentioned - the Florida State one and the Miami one - those will not go unnoticed. An NFL front office man will fall in love with the tape from one or both of those games and say, 'We need to take a risk on this guy.'
"I'm not saying it won't work out. But just reading everything coming out there right now - which echoes everything we heard while he was at Notre Dame - the anonymous quote from an NFC director of scouting on NFL.com right now says, 'He's a character flag for us. He's talented but I just don't think he loves the game enough for me to back him in our room. Who doesn't love those long arms? We all do, but I think he's lazy and will head south as soon as he has more time and money on his hands.'
"And when you go up to weaknesses, kind of the same thing: Scouts consider him unmotivated and question his football character. Doesn't treat offseason as a time to get better. Sources say Irish coaches had to work overtime to keep him interested and working to get better.
"I did notice a much more mature Jarron Jones in interviews from his first year at Notre Dame to the end of his last year, especially on Senior Day. But let’s not beat around the bush here. He did not play - was it Navy or Army? They all kind of blend together for me right now. But the Navy game, I think, he barely played because he doesn’t like playing option teams. For me, that’s a red flag. When you have guys like Isaac Rochell and other people on defense busting their butts on a 4-8 team and you have a fifth-year senior who doesn’t want to play because he’s afraid to get hurt, that’s the stuff that red flags are made of. That’s going to be a fire alarm for a lot of people looking at the tape and looking at his situation.
“He was, by all accounts - and I was sent a photo from someone who was there that night - he was at The Linebacker the night Devin Butler got arrested and was not exactly acting like an angel himself. He had to have some closed door meetings with Irish coaches about that over that weekend. He was described to me going into this season as a cancer on the team by a teammate of his. I'm just - as you said, the Florida State and Miami games, he looked amazing. He looked like a guy who is going to be a very successful NFL player. He's just going to need to change a lot about himself the other six days of the week and really the other nine months of the year based on everything I’ve been told to make this work as a professional football player."
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