The first day of SEC Media Days was, outside of Will Muschamp channeling his inner Brady Hoke, shaping up to be relatively uneventful. Thankfully, Steve Spurrier and Jadeveon Clowney from South Carolina ended the Tuesday on a high note.
Spurrier was Spurrier (and we love him dearly for it) and Clowney drew easily the largest crowd of media members (for a player) of the day. The preseason Heisman candidate didn’t disappoint reporters looking for a juicy sound clip, either.
Mixed in with SEC championship expectations and draft projections, the topic of scared quarterbacks came up. Clowney didn’t shy away from speaking his mind, naming off at least three quarterbacks he considers to be “scared” of him. The lucky three? Georgia’s Aaron Murray, Clemson’s Tajh Boyd and former Arkansas QB Tyler Wilson.
“You can look at a guy and tell if he’s scared,” Clowney said. “If he’s staring at me before the ball is snapped, if he’s staring at me before every snap, I’m just like: Oh, we got him.”
But Clowney didn’t stop there.
“He is scared every time we play them,” Clowney said of Boyd. “I know he’s listening to this right now but I’m telling the truth.”
Clowney’s earned the right to talk a little, though it should be noted that Clemson coach Dabo Swinney has already been asked about, and downplayed, Clowney’s comments. (Murray will have his chance to respond later this week.) Either way, the real news would be if there’s a quarterback not scared of Clowney at least a little. The defensive end has been tearing it up on the field and this hit against Michigan’s Vincent Smith launched Clowney into another level of stardom (not to mention Smith’s helmet into another dimension).
Of course, there’s still a whole season of football to be played in 2013 and you can be sure teams have been, and will be, spending extra time trying to stop Clowney from creating another game-changing moment.
I mean, which quarterback wants to see this? #CLOWNEYCOMIN
