Well a lot of people used these early/mid games to show how he has slowed down this year. In my opinion, I think he had mailed it in to protect his body for the NFL draft. I would do the same and that is what makes it incredible is that even with Bone spur, he was having impact full plays. The above game was suppose to be his weak game. As you an see that even on his off days he was in the backfield regularly despite double teams. He just overran some plays. I can post some of his good games but again you want to evaluate players based on their bad games. This was one of his bad games.
It's more than overran. On some plays then run right at him, on blocker, he has trouble throwing the block and makes a tackle after 4-5 yard gain. He looks very slow on the very few amount of stunts he is running. When they run away from him he goes pretty wide on closing behind the pulling lineman...that's not all his fault the play was big but he still messed up. I also don't like that they would let him free and have rb/fb only pick up his blitz quite often.
Every player in consideration for the #1 pick was someone who had the option to mail in their last college season in order to be safe. Every one of those guys had financial interests to consider. Long term interests. Every one of them was a terrible injury away from never seeing a dime of NFL money. Every last one of them. And Clowney is the only one we're supposed to somehow excuse for it. Do not want. Said it before here and elsewhere..he's a paycheck player who isn't going to get better AFTER he gets his paycheck. It's really that simple.
Great point but you also have to consider that people were hyping him crazy after 2012 year more than any other player and he got caught in that hype and tried to play it safe. He has a productive track record since High school so he is not a one hit wonder also. I am not making excuse for him but he is a rare talent in NFL at his position while the other projected top QB's are not going to be once in a generation type QB's at their position. I would still trade down if that is available but if we had to pick at 1st then it is hard to argue that these QB's will be better than Clowney.
I love Clowney the athlete. I hate Clowney the persona. If he gets his head straight he could become as dominant as Reggie White or Bruce Smith even.
True, I noticed very similar things but as I said earlier this was suppose to be one of his bad games. He definitely needs to add a spin move to be able to counter some blocks but I like his potential next to JJ WATT and Antonio Smith (Free Agent). I can see why Uncle Bob is so impressed. Clowney needs attention at line and pairing him next to JJ Watt gives our weak defensive backs some support and actually improve our DB's play. Again if we can move down than I would not care for Clowney at all since we have big holes everywhere in this team.
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Not sure where to put this, but since we are talking about Uncle Bob, he may as well tell Rick Smith to draft Aaron Colvin with our 6th or 7th round pick. The guy was going to be taken in the 2nd or 3rd round, but he tore his ACL today at the Senior Bowl practice. He'll recover by the beginning of the year, but will be clearly way behind any other rookie. Spend a late round pick on him and stash the guy away until the following year...he'll be a solid CB in the NFL.
I was listening to Charlie on the NFL network last week and he said a big factor that came to play between drafting Mario and Bush was durability (he also said VY was never in consideration). With both Teddy and Johnny being slim built guys _ I wonder if that will play a part in McNair's decision this time around.
Casserly has said publicly that they passed on Bush because they felt his lower body was built like a WR. Too thin to run between the tackles at the NFL level. The slim build of Teddy is mostly concerning because his body has never had to absorb much punishment in the AAC. At least Manziel has a track record of taking big hits and getting back up (Though I still feel Teddy is still the better QB prospect).
