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Scouting Jimmy Clausen

Mr. Scot

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one thing i will bring up is how he keeps both hands on the ball at all times right up until the release. i like that a lot.

one thing that moore did right before just about every release was to tap the ball with his left hand. pretty much a telegraph. i know others do it sometimes but he did it with quite a bit of regularity.

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Clausen has a decent longball for a college quarterback. I'm not convinced it's where it needs to be at the pro level, at least not yet.

His general profile is better suited to a west coast type attack, but we don't run that. Nor do we have the right type of receivers to make it work consistently.

That's not saying we have no chance, mind you. But the gameplan will definitely need to be a good one.

Do you think that Fox/Davidson is capable of that???

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Do you think that Fox/Davidson is capable of that???

Can they? Sure.

Will they? I sure hope so.

that last clip...meh. not blaming that on clausen at all. he did remind me a bit of phillip rivers which isn't all that bad a thing, imo.

Without knowing what the guy said, it's hard to make a judgment. there's probably a story on it somewhere, but I'm not gonna bother looking it up right now.

One story I do know, though. When he first started playing, Clausen wanted to be a linebacker. Then one day he was just hanging out on the field while his brother was getting some QB coaching and an errant ball came his way. He picked it up, looked downfield and heaved a perfect 40 yard toss back to his brother.

He was ten years old at the time :sosp:

The QB coach asked 'Who's that kid?" Mom and Dad told him that was their younger boy Jimmy and he was a linebacker. Coach responded "Not anymore, he isn't."

And now, here we are...

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I'm sure this was posted sometime around the draft, but for those that missed it, or didn't care until this week, it's a good, albeit lengthy article on Clausen.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/draft10/news/story?id=5064085

I read it pre-draft in the print magazine. The story of his first throw is from that article.

Had one of the details wrong though. Apparently his throw was 55 yards :eek:

That link contains what will likely become someone's new avatar...

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I'm sure this was posted sometime around the draft, but for those that missed it, or didn't care until this week, it's a good, albeit lengthy article on Clausen.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/draft10/news/story?id=5064085

holy crap was that a good read. made my jaw drop quite a few times.

i was going to quote a couple things but there's so many things in there. how in the world did we luck out with this kid? i can't wait to see him in action this sunday.

i feel really good about this. the kid is a machine.

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I read it pre-draft in the print magazine. The story of his first throw is from that article.

Had one of the details wrong though. Apparently his throw was 55 yards :eek:

That link contains what will likely become someone's new avatar...

0408clausen.jpg

you have to mention that he was 10 years old when he threw that 55 yarder. :eek::eek:
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you have to mention that he was 10 years old when he threw that 55 yarder. :eek::eek:

I did (prior post) but I had the yardage wrong.

Here's the full quote from the link...

Clausen started out as a snarling, spiky-haired, 4'11" youth-league linebacker -- and waterboy for his oldest brother's high school team in Mission Hills, Calif. Under Clarkson's tutelage, Casey Clausen was on his way to Tennessee. (Middle brother Rick, also a QB, would end up there as well.) But it was often the waterboy who stole the show. One day, an errant pass landed on the sideline near Jimmy's feet. He picked it up and fired it back on a rope, 55 yards across the field. Did we mention the kid was in the fifth grade?

"Who the heck is that?" asked Clarkson, sitting in the stands next to the Clausen family.

"That's my son Jimmy," said Jim Clausen, a former assistant football coach at Cal State Northridge who now runs an insurance company. "He's a linebacker."

"Not anymore," Clarkson replied. "He's better than your other kids right now."

Clarkson was exaggerating, of course, but his exuberance was understandable. Most 10-year-olds can barely throw the ball 20 yards, let alone put any kind of spiral on it...

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