Quote:Yep such a waste of talent at 3-4 OLBer

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Onp_RqveY

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFdr8LdzLbA

 

The poor guy's skills will just rot on this team and he'll never ever be put into position to make plays with this defensive scheme..

 

Yep, one decent game against arguably the worst tackle in the league makes up for the fact that he looked completely lost the previous week.

 

Quote:Did you watch the first game..

 

He was double teamed which is what sprung Watt loose for a sack.  The entire reason why he was drafted was so you can't scheme against the line.  Who are going to double team?  Watt or Clowney.. you can't do both at the same time. It will be a "pick your poison." scenerio

 

Fact remains though...  Those who tried to act like this guy couldn't make plays within this defensive scheme (Or as a 3-4 backer) didn't know what the heck they were talking about.  I mean have they been in a coma during DeMarcus Ware's entire HOF career?

 

After two preseason games?

 

But lets just ignore the fact that he was a ghost against Arizona outside of the one time they dropped him back into coverage and he got torched deep by a slow TE.

 

He's playing out of position. The only reason the Texans haven't switched to a 4-3 is because Crennell is historically stubborn, so much that he's nearly ruined every defense he has gone to since he left New England.

 

I'm not sure where you're getting this "fact remains" thing though, because the opinion on Clowney as a 3-4 OLB is not exclusive to this board, and you can ask anyone here how I felt about Clowney before the draft, thinking Houston would do the logical thing by forcing Crennell to go to a 4-3. I was terrified of that.

 

Not so much in the 3-4, thankfully.

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