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I dunno, sure that's what it means ? Maybe "traits" could also mean talents, or characteristics, or abilities ?
Jamarcus was addicted to codeine and promethazine... Clowney doesn't even drink. He did drive over the speed limit, though, so there's that.
All feedback from teams who actually met and spent time with the kid are positive, very likeable, other prospects like him.
http://www.texanstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2305132#post2305132
So ding him for his down year, but Clowney is not somebad kid. His personality is the polar opposite of someone like Mario, who was dark and even suicidal.
It's also pretty damn Captain Obvious that NFL Front office types are often *gasp* WRONG.I get the potential angle and I set it up as an easy-to-answer question.
You have the benefit of hindsight being 20/20 vision with your examples. If only teams had such insight before making those draft picks. There is no guaranteed pick in the draft process. NONE of these players can offer 100% certainty that they are going to be great NFL players. Tell me which players will be in the HoF now and then I give that person major respect in about a decade.
That said, I think it is a bit foolhardy to take fans to task for perceived inability to judge game tape when pro teams are looking at the same tape and still consider him a top draft pick.
ALL of these picks are based on POTENTIAL. That's kind of a Captain Obvious observation.
There are a lot of absolute statements being made that seem more like shots in the dark than actual legit analysis. That was my point, not the softball question I posed.
The only consistent knock on Clowney pertains to his 'motor', and even that evaluation has its share of critics.
Field Yates.
As Gil Brandt says, teams draft based on their own projections within their positions. It's why a Tom Savage is drawing strong interest from NFL teams but, DraftTwitter is all up in arms...
Gil Brandt ‏@Gil_Brandt
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/spurrier-thinks-the-texans-have-to-take-clowney/
Say what? Ummm, I'm pretty sure they are all there when you draft first.
OK. I just pulled up this: Jadeveon Clowney vs. Taylor Lewan 2013 Bowlgame. This is not the two games I'd seen him play previously. AND. It's a bowl game.
Second play of the video. 17 seconds into this. He rushes on a twist. The QB tries to run to the area Clowney vacated. That's all good. But when Clowney sees the play going away from him, he just jogs toward it. He doesn't run. If he had run there, he would have been in a better position to get the fumble.
Really? What about #70 and #99? Are they loafing too?????
At 1:09, the play goes inside of him and breaks for a long run. Once he sees he's out of the play, he's not trying to get himself back into it. In the slo-mo second version of that play, I kept expecting to see him come back into the camera but he never showed up. Which means he either stopped or he was just jogging after the play.
You can't be serious?????
On the play at about 1:40, he gets doubled and when he sees the QB rushing the other way, he slows down.
I'm totally confused?????
On the play at about 3:09, the run is away from him and he initially pursues but then he slows down while the guy is still not down.
On the plays in the 3:35 range, he's starting to look tired and half-hearted.
On the play at about 4:01, he runs himself out of the play and then he becomes a spectator.
On the play at 4:09, he falls down. And then instead of getting up and chasing the play, he gets up and talks to the tackle.
On the next play, he rushes, the QB runs, Clowney jogs after and then when he realizes he could be in a position to hit him, he speeds up. If he had been moving at that speed for the entire play, he would have been in a better position to make a play.
On the play at 5:02, I don't know if it was called for him to take a slow contain rush but he looked lackadaisacal coming off the ball to me.
At the 8:10 mark, he gets doubled teamed. The play goes past and he just trudges downfield.
At the 8:18 mark... that was an AMAZING play. He had other opportunites to do that.
Again at 9:49, excellent play.
To me, there are a lot of times where he just doesn't look like he's in the game.
If it's any reassurance to you CBS's Pete Prisco agrees
who else would be left at 6?
I rather have Bridgewater than Bortles.
Yea OK, but what's the consideration for our pick ? That's the question and does anybody ask it here ? And BTW, if anybody doubts who's the most highly valued prospect in this Draft, well I challenge you to step up and show any trade scenario with the Texans for their 1.1 that's being discussed that doesn't involve a team interested in landing Clowney.
