Can you feel it?! Football season is around the corner!!! The trash talking has begun! Yesterday was the first day of SEC Media Days and thanks to South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney we have something to talk about it!
He called out SEC QBs…by name! Check out what he had to say…
(Oh and just for fun, go ahead and check out that monster hit Clowney had on Michigan running back Vincent Smith from last season (see HERE)).
Via ESPN:
Jadeveon Clowneysaid he’s getting more and more comfortable speaking with the media, and it showed on Tuesday when he said Clemson’s Tajh Boyd and three SEC quarterbacks were “scared” to face him and the Gamecocks defensive line.
“I can tell Tajh Boyd is scared back there,” Clowney said. “He ain’t no sitting duck, but you can see in his eyes that he’s scared of our D-linemen.”
Clowney recorded a career-high 4.5 sacks in the regular-season finale against rival Clemson last season as the Gamecocks beat the Tigers 27-17 in Death Valley. Boyd threw two interceptions and was sacked six times in the game.
“We know that coming into the game that we have him shook already,” Clowney explained. “We get a couple hits on him and it changes the whole game. He’s scared every time we play them. I know he’s probably listening to this right now, but I’m just telling the truth, man.”
Clowney, who is a member of both the Lombardi and Bronko Nagurski watch lists this season, said he doesn’t taunt other players on the field other than to say, “Block me.” But the 6-foot-6, 247-pound athlete knows fear when he sees it in an opponent’s eyes. He said he saw it in Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray, former Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson and a third SEC quarterback he didn’t name.
“You can look at a guy and tell that he’s scared,” Clowney said. “If he’s staring at me before the ball is snapped and he’s staring at me every play before the ball is snapped, oh we got him. I tell the players that he’s shook.”
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