at least it's not just us?
I GET IT
"I, too, am a whig."
i can't wait to show clients how much money i have to waste
how Auburn does what it does
i mean seriously he was just as good this year
save those nickels, because you're all looking for new jobs next year
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I don't think this should be play of the year. He out weighs Smith by 70 or 80 pounds and was unblocked. Was this hit any better than Kovacs' sack in the WMU game? I know the timing of the Clowney hit was big but I don't think that's why it's getting that much credit.
The play where Johnny Manziel fumbles it to himself and throws a touchdown on the same play @ Alabama I thought was way better
routine by Espn. It is probably one of the top 5 worst/Over done things they do. I'm sure it's ratings will be down just like the the rest of the network has been trending for a while now.
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The amount of homer whining here is ridiculous. If Woodley had made the exact same play, people here would be tattooing it on their chests. It was an awesome play, quit fucking whining.
Speak for yourself. I don't talk much about Kovacs' sack against WMU (which also caused a fumble BTW) because he came through unblocked -- and that was arguably more impressive because A) the O-line got RPS-ed by a Mattison blitz, B) it was the QB's STRONG side, C) Kovacs was a walk-on safety, not a draft pick DE and D) the result was a defensive TD. But whatever. Unblocked is unblocked; you look bad if you don't make the play. Don't shove words in my mouth and then accuse me for saying them.
Botched assignments aren't awesome plays. Layman fans like them because they ooh over big hits and aah over long TDs but I don't come here for layman discussions. The upthread claim that anyone could make the same hit is an exaggeration but otherwise, yeah, pretty much any DE in college football could've done the same thing because the path to the mesh point was all but paved.
Triple teamed in the BCS National Championship Game, with the game on the line on the final play, Jake Ryan wards off three blockers and hits Alabama’s A. J. McCarron so hard that McCarron’s helmet lands in the stands, McCarron wakes up speaking Swedish and can’t recall anything about his past, Katherine Webb is hospitalized, Brent Musberger is forced to retire from broadcasting college football games, Gus Johnson is speechless (and eventually decides that he'll pass on broadcasting any more soccer games). . . . And Michigan wins the national championship!
Sure, it's definitely the sexiest "OH SH*T SON" play of Clowney's career but it required almost no skill on his part. I bet Clowney made 50 other plays last year that a theoretical CockGoBlog would've given a higher score on their theoretical UFR.
Exactly. The fact that this play is now enshrined with other plays that exhibit true technical genius, such as Mike Legg's goal in the 1996 NCAA tournament against Minnesota, is insulting.
ANY DE worth his salt would've made the exact same play on a tailback hung out to dry because his guard blew his blocking assignment. It's not whining to point this out.
Well said. This is probably the best I have seen Clowney's play put into context . Great play? Absolutely. Unbelievable play? No way.
There's no way the "Cocks" fsns are intelligent enough to understand UFR. I'm allowed to say it because I live in Columbia.
I'm fairly certain "CockGoBlog" wouldn't be even tangentially related to South Carolina football.
No one will ever forget Vincent Smith as people will know he was the guy who was at the other end of Clowney's tackle.
They won't talk about how Taylor Lewan totally owned his ass the entire game.
It was a great hit. Unblocked? Yeah. Remember that we shouldn't have had the ball at all, though. The fact that Clowney came through with a hit like that and recovered the fumble the play after we didn't get a fourth-down conversion seemed like a force of karma when it happened. Like Clowney had rearranged fate to give South Carolina another chance.
Crazy, yeah, but this is sports. That's why it won. It WAS a great hit and it deserved to win.
I hate it as much as anyone, but it was a phenomenal play... Especially if u include the context. We had just been handed a VERY questionable 4th down conversion and had all of the momentum. Clowney was completely unblocked for sure but for as small as Vince was in 4 years playing I did not see anyone come remotely close to splatting him the way that hit did and then most impressively Clowney had the wherewithal to recover the fumble with one hand... Like it was a baseball. While "technically" not the most impressive play, it was the ultimate "man beast" play.
So much butt hurt all in one thread.
It keeps getting shown because it's kinda awesome. If the tables were turned and one of our guys did that to an opponent, we'd be all over it like Alan Branch pasted onto a basketball court. I just wish the coaches called a TO as we were clearly confused and Clowney was clearly about to take a head off.
Every time I see or hear about the Clowney hit I convince myself that was the #1 reason Lewan came back this year, because he knows it was all on him, and he needs to wash that off with a year's worth of crushing every DE he faces.
I saw him pull on the play and ignore him like someone was suppose to get, did someone admit it was on taylor?
My understanding has always been that Taylor changed the blocking scheme at the line and Barnum missed the audible, thus leading to the greatest hit EVAR!!!
Odd how I get downvoted for trying to put a positive spin on that play - that it may have been the reason our All-America OT decided to return.
I think it was actually Kwiatkowski who said he called the audible but Taylor apparently didn't hear him because the stadium was so loud. Or maybe it was Taylor..not sure
should have won the award. It was hilariously awesome to see it happened on Thanksgiving Day and still funny to watch it months after it.
That was a big, momentum changing hit. What pisses me off most is that, in part because of that hit, some people say the Lewan-Clowney matchup was a draw. What? Clowney made 2 plays all game and was matched up with Lewan on one of them. Taylor shut that guy DOWN!
Enough! Let me see Taylor Lewan get a full head of steam and hit Clowneydead in the chest. The impressive thing was tough Mr. Smith grabbing his hat and walking off the field. NoW THAT'S tough!!!!
I think we should let this go. There is no shame that it happened to happen against us. The kid is a helluva player.
