In Houston, Linebacker Proving to Be a Clown
Jadeveon Clowney was too sick to play against the Eagles yesterday.
But apparently, the Texans linebacker - or someone with access to his Instagram account - was well enough to "like" a photo of a woman at the very same time his team was losing to the Birds.
No way! Clowney was able to take a second to click an option on a screen, likely during the copious amount of downtime during a football game? Doesn't seem like an injured player to me!
The info comes by way of Nick Wright, a morning-drive host for SportsRadio 610 in Houston.
Or as he's known to friends, "The Douche."
"Man, I just checked," Wright tweeted at the time. "Clowney, or someone on his account, absolutely "Liked" someone's Instagram picture at 12:45 p.m. today. That's awful."
Wright then played five consecutive soundbites of people farting before teasing his audience of mouthbreathers by calling Arian Foster a gutless chokeartist for exiting the loss to the Eagles with a severe groin injury. *Schwing*
Remember, that's 12:45 Central Time, 45 minutes after the game started.
"I've been a total Clowney defender, damn near apologist," tweeted Wright. "But he can't be scrolling Instagram during the game."
Damn straight. James Harrison would be on the sidelines waiting to shiv any opponents unfortunate enough to careen out of bounds on the Texans' side of the field. Brian Urlacher would be boning Bears cheerleaders in the locker room as a commitment to staying in shape. Clowney's got a lot to learn about being a team player.
Considering the team has been down on the Clown Man lately, well . . . it just doesn't look good.
That's accurate. What's not necessarily accurate is definitely claiming that Clowney was the one actually surfing the interwebs during a football game for which he was not active. As noted in the hedge atop the column, there exists the possibility that, as with many other high-profile athletes, Jadeveon permits others to access his social media platforms. But let's not allow that to get in the way of a good smear campaign, shall we?
Clowney, the No. 1 overall pick in May's NFL draft, missed six games after suffering a torn meniscus in the season opener. He returned against the Titans last week, but missed practice Friday and - according to TV station KHOU - worked out before yesterday's game before being listed as inactive with flu-like symptoms.
Sounds like he's legitimately been injured and sick. Not sure why one wants a guy with a balky knee who is also feeling like garbage due to illness being up and active on the sidelines. Seems like the exact opposite of what any doctor not employed by the San Diego Chargers would instruct Clowney to do on Sunday.
NFL Media's Ian Rapoport indicated yesterday that the Texans want Clowney to man up.
Of course they do. Have you seen their head coach? Bill O'Brien is cut from the "rub some dirt on it and slam your head against that wall" school of blockheaded old-school coaching that should have died out years ago. Never mind that Clowney was only the #1 overall pick in May, a huge investment for the team's future, and coming off of a serious injury in the season opener. Get your ass out there and potentially wreck a great career in year one despite the fact that our organization has already effectively punted the season by employing Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback!
"What they want is for him to start showing some maturity and learn to play through some of these ailments," Rapoport said on "NFL GameDay Morning."
The NFL cares about playing safety...hahaha, just kidding. Showing discretion and not forcing oneself back into action before one is ready is apparently still equated with immaturity and weakness. I'd hope that Clowney's teammates would have his back, but linemate J.J. Watt, who often engages in filming plenty of ads and TV shows that would be deemed "distractions" if it was the rookie being featured, just spent the better part of a week chastising an opponent's quarterback for taking a selfie, so good luck with finding actual maturity in that locker room.
"As a source just mentioned to me, this is really the first time Clowney has faced any sort of injury adversity - didn't really happen in college
What the hell are you talking about? Clowney was hurt for the majority of his junior year, including playing through a sports hernia that required offseason surgery and would've felled most other players. But low motor, no guts, and all that noise.
and they want him to try to play through it in the NFL, but they're frustrated with their No. 1 overall pick."
Perhaps if your franchise was run competently, you wouldn't need one player to force himself to play through injury in order to keep your season from capsizing. However, then they wouldn't be the Texans we know and mock.
Remember when?
On this date 17 years ago, Phillies third baseman Scott Rolen was a unanimous choice for National League Rookie of the Year.
Scott Rolen wouldn't sit out games for minor stuff like meniscus surgery!
*Ignores the fact that Rolen missed an average of nearly 57 games per year in his final eight seasons*
*Ignores the massive lack of self-awareness of a writer who claimed Rolen to be a "sports figure we love to hate" and joined in the hatchet job that ran the guy out of town in 2002 for 'not trying hard enough to win' being celebrated at the base of an article baselessly accusing another young star of the exact same thing*
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