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I don't think mariota has mentioned it at all... I'm just alluding to the oak CB grades, and how matching up with tajae sharpe/rishard matthews can likely skew those numbers some.
How did oakland use Karl Joseph? He sure racked up hella tackles, watching him in the preseason he wasn't striking me as someone who was always around the ball
Oh I know didn't mean it that way.
I thought Karl Joseph was excellent considering it was essentially his NFL debut, first ever snaps on D. He led us in tackles on the day, hit double digits. Didnt have much to do in coverage but was always around the ball and had some great effort plays. No noticeable mistakes. Looked like the exact same player he was in college.
Funny enough I was rewatching the game and there were THREE separate plays where Derrick Henry had an opportunity to finish runs 1v1 head up with Karl Joseph on the sideline and instead elected to run out of bounds. Keep in mjnd Henry was certainly dishing out punishment all day, seemed to make a business decision when he encountered Karl and all 5'8 of his 195lbs frame.
I wonder if he personally remembers Karl from that '14 meeting with WVU. Looked up the game log and Karl had something crazy like 18 tackles.

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