Clowney is still very raw. The down year last year is a concern. I look at someone like Bridgewater who got better every year as a better prospect. Just how I feel.
One thing that still bites me is Clowney's work ethic or lack thereof Extremely bothersome You don't just walk into the big leagues busting your balls when you haven't your entire career before then. I do like Bridgewater is gotten markedly better.
Clowney will absolutely perform that way at the combine. He will be a physical monster. I still wouldn't take him. It's the physical aspect of Clowney that concerns me in the slightest. I have no doubt that he is capable of doing exactly what you said....having a crazy rookie year. I think he's quite capable of that. Being capable and actually doing are vastly different things, though.
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/01/23/greg-cosell-looks-at-texans-qb-issues-ahead-at-the-draft/ Cosell likes Bridgewater the the best, says he has a good arm and mastered his offense Said the Manziel played basically unstructured at A&M, eye of the beholder type player Bortles is up for grabs Really likes Mallet's arm, questions pocket presence Cousins will leave you wanting more with his arm, will require a specific type of offense
I heard this too while driving back to the office from lunch. He was pretty critical of Manziel, saying he didn't seem to understand his own offense. That receivers would run plays...be open..and Manziel didn't make the throw.
My pick would be Bridgewater. I told my kid before the season even started that I'd trade Schaub for Bridgewater immediately...and lamented that we wouldn't get the chance to draft him. I remember exactly where I was when he and I talked about that. I love the guy. Clowney scares me. I think he's a paycheck player before he's even received a paycheck. Bortles I've seen play twice, and I wasn't impressed either time. That includes the bowl game where he picked up nice numbers picking apart a so-so defense (my Baylor Bears) with screen passes that turned into long gains because the secondary refused to tackle.
I guarantee the thought of the Texans pairing Clowney and Watt scares AFC South QB's and offensive coordinators a lot more.
Well he doesn't have a track record of it, so I don't know why you'd think that would change in the NFL.
Film shows it Besides I question his dominance considering Taylor Lewan handled him for the most part during the Mich-SC game
Film does not show it. Maybe you mean short clips taken out of context have been spun in an attempt to "show" it, but if you watch the entire thing and note the context it doesn't actually show him taking plays off. Occasionally he'll get winded and get beat, but that's not taking plays off, also once he catches his breath he goes right back to dominating. Fighting double teams and always having to run down plays from the back takes a toll on a DE. Even JJ Watt got winded at times last year, if you took small clips of those instances and complied them together you could come up with the same type of propaganda that's out there about Clowney. Anyone who takes more than a cursory glance knows better.
Also it's funny hearing about Clowney being "shut down" in a game where he had 2 TFL's and he forced a fumble....
As I said before, Clowney needs to have dominant combine 4.5 or under 27-28 plus reps etc Prove the "slouch" and lazy rumors wrong
So "all" he has to do to prove the ridiculous rumors false is put up the fastest 40 time for a DE since 2006, or if you consider him a LB what will likely be the fastest time by anyone in the draft?
