'19 FL S Antonio Carter (Rhode Island —> Notre Dame Transfer)

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Sherm Sticky said:
Ya’ll need to rewatch the games. I love Watts, but with his ability he misses way to many tackles.
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I don’t remember any egregious ones this game but maybe I missed it, he did make a few good plays… but agree as a whole, we don’t tackle well at all
 
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Lack of tackling practice and poor tackling in games should be a correlation one would think.
Would be a good question for today’s presser.
 
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stpeteirish said:
Follow up question is “Did the Louisville game change your opinion on tackling in practice?”
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The worst part is our biggest missed tackles may not have even gone down as missed tackles because our defenders were so clueless on what they should do to make the tackle, they didn't even get a hand on them.

First long TD run. Marist was there and stopped/slowed down for some reason. IT should have been a 3-4 yard gain. But after Marist let him through the hole, brown was there to stop it at 15 yards. He's so clueless on how to break down and tackle he didn't come close to getting a hand on the RB.

Second TD run, brown is right there in the hole, doesn't properly move, and the guy runs right by him as brown dives when he should have slid into the hole.

Both td runs have nothing to do with tackling in practice but yet everything to do with it. We didn't even get a hand on him, so in theory, yeah you'd think technique needs to change. In reality, we didn't get a hand on him because our team DOES NOT WANT TO TACKLE! That has everything to do about practice, you find out who will be physical and tackle in practice and that translates to the games.

I remember one time the team didn't tackle well under Clark one game, and that week they had the most physical week of practice tackling. Guess what, improvement happened.

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No surprise. The talking heads mentioned early on he lacked the movement skills to challenge for a role in the back end. It was evident after a few brief practice viewings.

Good luck to the young man
 
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IAIrish said:
No surprise. The talking heads mentioned early on he lacked the movement skills to challenge for a role in the back end. It was evident after a few brief practice viewings.

Good luck to the young man
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The question is, why wasn't it evident to the coaches before they recruited him?
 
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SDIrishFan said:
The question is, why wasn't it evident to the coaches before they recruited him?
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Dunno. Film looked translatable. They all don't hit.

I wonder if they ask transfers to run/ workout on visits in order to verify?
 
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Best of luck. I was hoping for this kid to strike it big last year.

I also thought Hartman would succeed as a passer last year too. Oops!
 
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ND may have been slightly too high a level for him but I was surprised he didn’t get more of a run here. He looked really good last night against Liberty. Checked his stats and through 8 games he has 63 tackles, 3 PDs and an INT. Hopefully he’s played himself into being a late round draft pick.
 
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notredomer23 said:
ND may have been slightly too high a level for him but I was surprised he didn’t get more of a run here. He looked really good last night against Liberty. Checked his stats and through 8 games he has 63 tackles, 3 PDs and an INT. Hopefully he’s played himself into being a late round draft pick.
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I thought he was gonna contribute as well until I heard Uyeyama and others talk about his change of direction being noticeably different from the other db's in the open practices they saw. Mind you he was being compared to Dj Brown and my favorite cat tackles Ramon Henderson, so he must've been a step slow in that regard.
 
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notredomer23 said:
ND may have been slightly too high a level for him but I was surprised he didn’t get more of a run here. He looked really good last night against Liberty. Checked his stats and through 8 games he has 63 tackles, 3 PDs and an INT. Hopefully he’s played himself into being a late round draft pick.
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Even significantly better guys like Tariq Bracy and Thomas Harper didn’t get drafted
 
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