More on The Clowney Twitter Benching
David Clowney spoke to reporters for the first time since his benching last week yesterday and Rich Cimini reports some interesting things about it.
Clowney … called it a “minor misunderstanding” because Ryan only received “half the message” on Twitter. Indeed, Clowney followed that first Tweet with another message, saying he was happy about the team’s victory and wasn’t concerned with individual things such as playing time.
Clowney said he and Ryan talked about it a couple of days before the Titans game. If that’s so, why did Ryan deactivate him? Well, Ryan expanded on his explanation for the benching, saying today that Clowney’s performance in practice had slipped. So why didn’t he say that on Monday?
Weird.
Weird indeed, but not unwarranted. Ryan might have omitted the fact about how he practiced and the tweet was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Still that doesn’t invalidate Ryan’s assessment of Clowney’s level of effort prior to the Patriots game. Maybe he didn’t get many snaps against the Patriots because Ryan wasn’t liking what he saw during the week and thus the low number of reps, thus the reprisal to his comment about not getting time. Ryan did made a point of noting how well David practiced last week.
“I put David down. That was my decision. I wanted to see how David would respond. David had two options: He could have come out and been upset and pouted or he could come out and been a Jet, worked his tail off and showed me that he wants to do it our way.
“He did exactly that. He was phenomenal in preparation. I’ll probably give him scout team player of the week.”
Hopefully this is all behind the coach and player, but once can hope that this is helping Clowney realize that he needs to do more to see time on the field. Long bomb TDs against third string defenses in the preseason only gets you so far. This is now the second coaching staff (albeit the same OC) that hasn’t used him extensively so far, so maybe there’s more to it. It’s up to Clowney to figure out how to get and stay on the field with this team. At least now he knows where he stands with Ryan, and what’s going to be expected if he wants to play on Sundays.
12 Responses to More on The Clowney Twitter Benching
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Robbie B says:
exactly. who cares? Unfortunately its the NY Media once again turning nothing into something.
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Bent says: He has over 5,000 followers, so either he’s a popular guy with a huge family, or there are people interested in what he has to say! I’m mystified too, but it is good to hear him putting in a better effort rather than sulking.
I’m sure when he gets his 2nd career grab, it will be a big play. Let’s hope it’s sooner rather than later (and the first – or second – of many).
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miketaliaferro says:
If active for NO, David could be instrumental in plans for a victory.
“What if…,” in the first or second series, after another beautiful play-action to TJ, MS pulls it back in and lets loose to David down the sideline to jump on top by 7 early.
Putting NO in a hole early would put the NO D back on its heels, take away that vaunted balance we keep hearing about, and allow Madbacker & Co. to lick their chops and pin their ears back.
It’s a thought, anyway…
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EastSide says:
David Clowney will give us good scouting on NO’s Devery Henderson this week. They practically play the same game- “go” route burners. This team has a lot of weapons but they don’t bring a lot this defense hasn’t seen (besides their QB).
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I want answers says:
I agree. Why is this even an issue? I mean, what has this guy done? As much as people have ripped B Smith at least the dude contributes mightily on special teams. He might even be a better WR than clowney. Time to put up or shut up.
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When do we start blaming the player for not being able to produce on the field? I mean everyone blamed Mangini for Clowney’s lack of playing time and now 3 weeks in un Rex he’s not on the field.
Fact is….he is probably not that good and will never be more than a #3-4 WR……
Stop with the preseason excitment with this guy already.
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john sec.125 says:
under the circumstances, could his last name be any better?
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rusty sanchez says:
i have a feeling clowney just aint that good…he was cut by green bay and its now 2 different jet coaches who are not playing him…i guess between his speed and his good preseason stats the jets are scared to cut him cause the fans might get mad or he has the potential to do good somewhere else
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ian says:
i don’t understand what is going on with clowney. even if he isn’t great in practice, why not give him some snaps based on his pre-season performance. if he doesn’t produce, no need to give him more looks. if he does produce, give him more snaps. but i firmly believe that his pre-season production has earned more game time than he’s gotten thus far.
i wonder if he just annoys the coaches or sleeps in meetings or something.
i would love to get a straight answer on this, though.
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Vincenzo DiTrolio says:
Clowney has a lot of potential and could be a good receiver one day but unless he starts to focus on his game and work hard at getting better, he’ll never see the field. And getting to the topic of twitter, I think it is the dumbest thing and I don’t see why athletes feel the need to use it. Pretty much the only thing that it does is cause problems for the players and nothing good comes out of it. I understand that a lot of people want to see what athletes are doing and what they have to say, but I don’t understand why athletes feel the need to use twitter. I looked at Dwight Howard’s twitter a week ago and all he says is, “I’m at practice,” and, “We’re lookin good,” and dumb stuff like that. And most of it is him saying “sup” to random people that he doesn’t know. If that’s all you use twitter for, and all using it can do is get you in trouble, then why use it?
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the guy has one career grab, why are we talking about this and who’s reading his twitter page besides friends and family.