Jadeveon Clowney wins an ESPY for the hit that won't go away

No, no you couldn't.

I'm not just saying this because Vincent Smith has an account and knows this blog, but I'm pretty sure he would blow your entire body back as far as his helmet went.

To be fair to Vincent Smith, easily pound for pound the toughest guy on the team last year, I'm pretty sure you'd hit him and he'd still be standing upright, while you fell to ground feeling like you just ran into a brick wall.

Sure, Clowney was full-speed ahead unblocked, but the man is a freak of nature.

How many times do see a player make a move on an unblocked defender and leave him in his dust? Often times an unblocked defender gets juked out of his jock and left lying on the ground. Even in times that they don't, the opponent has time to try and attempt a move so that when they are hit, it's a glancing blow and they don't end up with their helmet getting blown 20 yeard downfield.

What was more amazing to me than simply the fact that he made the tackle or that how hard the tackle ended up being, were two things: 1) the speed at which he got to the ball carrier. He almost beat the handoff to Smith and he literally had no time to move once he received the ball. 2) that he not only forced the fumble, but rather than stand around posturing after a big hit (like so many players will do) he had the presence of mind to recover the fumble as well.

Honestly, I don't know if I have ever seen a more athletic play by a DL in my life. To try and pretend it was not impressive only shows your bias IMHE.

just give the Espy to physics.

that fucker wins everything these days

But ESPN's  2014 football recruiting rankings and team rankings aren't stupid.  ESPN is science.

Dude. Screen actors guild awards.

In this day and age, it's now an automatic ejection which is more stupid

I prolly watched that 100 times when it happened, that sound...oh so fantastic. Listen to the call too, ya gotta love Gus after a call like that

I forgot about that play.  That's right up there with the Trey block in the final as far as shitty reactionary calls go, even though this game wasn't as close or important.

If I were still in school and crack backs weren't allowed.... Why even bother?

Weird.

How Lebron could beat the first triple crown winner in however many years is just ridiculous.

And I forgot about the greatness of this block.  Thank you sir.

Because his helmet came off.  It's waaaaaaay cool when the guy's helmet comes off.  That's all we fans care about . . . his helmet came off.  Had his helmet stayed on, the ESPY's would have kept looking for another play where a helmet comes off.

Want to win an ESPY?  Slip a $100 to one of your old High School buddies that plays running back on the other team, and ask him to wear his helmet strap real loose.  Then when you make an ordinary tackle on him, his helmet will pop off and everyone will OOH and AAH.

Instant ESPY.

But was it though? It was a missed assignment, he was completely unblocked. The impressive part was the recovery by him, but that's not the part that gets the hype. The top 30 or so defensive ends in college football would have done the same thing, I bet.

Pssssst!  The "E" in ESPN stands for Entertainment.  

The "E" in ESPY probably does too.

Up-voted because for fuck's sake knock it off already with the knee-jerk moderation.

Honestly, you guys make a political forum look good by comparison.  I don't agree with the above post but who the hell was so offended by this that they decided the world was better off if it didn't exist??

You wouldn't guess this blog is based in a free-speech country the way people behave around here.

What did he say?

Because OL never make hits like he did. Does it really amaze you that the freak of nature who dominated offensive lines all year and had the play of the game is getting attention for it?

And if you listen to South Carolina fans, he was held so much during the game that he couldn't do anything.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I saw him pull on the play and ignore him like someone was suppose to get, did someone admit it was on taylor?