Jimmah's post-TD antics
I'm not sure if it only bothers me because it's ND and Jimmah is a douche, but is anybody else sick of the way he acts after he throws a TD. Last week against Purdue he did that conceited head nod after his game-winning score. Against UM he did that idiotic ass-dance after the score that put them ahead late. I get that those were big TD's - but act like you've been there before. Celebrate with your teammates, fine, but don't call attention to yourself with those antics.
I'm not sure if this is a legitimate complaint or my first "get off my lawn" moment - it just rubs me the wrong way.
Also, I'm aware that this is old news but when you're doing work at 3 am the mind starts to wander.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:53 AM ^
Totally agree, that head nod thing was uncalled for and douchey in my opinion. Hes a tool and his coach is a joke, so i guess they fit.
September 30th, 2009 at 3:22 AM ^
So if he didn't react at all after throwing a game winning TD, would you just call him a heartless robot?
I'll agree that he looks like a tool whenever he celibates, but who am I kidding, if I threw a game winning touchdown I would enjoy the hell out of the moment and do whatever comes to mind.
September 30th, 2009 at 8:18 AM ^
So Clausen looks like a tool whenever he forgoes sex? Rarely has a typo explained so much.
September 30th, 2009 at 3:54 AM ^
has been annoying since the day he showed up in a stretch limo to announce he was going to ND.
September 30th, 2009 at 4:31 AM ^
He has been doing that shit since the Hawaii game last year. And this year Golden "showers" Tate has started doing it. Makes me want to punch the TV.
September 30th, 2009 at 5:10 AM ^
Yeah it bugs the hell out of me too. He looks so stupid making that little pose he does. And the funny thing is I think his team likes it. The lineman come up so he can jump in their arms and do it. I wish someone would tell him how stupid he looks doing it. It's one thing to celebrate but to stand there and nod your head and look like he does it drives me crazy. I hope he goes pro so that we don't have to ever see that again. I don't think he has what it takes to make a good pro. Right now he just has great receivers that make him look good.
September 30th, 2009 at 10:55 AM ^
This can't be serious. There isn't one other QB in the country that is more pro ready than Jimmy Clausen. There isn't a throw that he can't make. He is extremely savvy. He is tough enough to play through painful injuries. He is very capable of moving around the pocket to create more time. I haven't seen a QB throw the deep ball as well as him since...heck, I can't think of anyone. None of the big 3 (Tebow, Bradford, or McCoy) have the pure passing skills as does Clausen. All of the mentioned QBs are surrounded by superior talented team mates in comparison to Jimmy. Yes, Michael Floyd is a star and will be a Top 10 pick one day. However, Golden Tate is a heck of player, but he is all of 5'9". He drops deep ball on the money, throws timely precision passes, and usually has no trouble finding the open man. I too think he is a little arrogant, but to be as good as he is at that position you have to be (i.e., both Mannings, Rivers, Cutler, Brady, and the list goes on). And for the sake of argument, who cares what he does after he throws a game winning touchdown. He possibly saved his teams season with the td against Purdue, he should have did back flips all the way to the 50-yard line. That whole statement about acting like you been there is crap...have you ever been there? It feels good enough to make you wanna dance, so why not do it? Oh wait, b/c the NCAA as a governing body SUCKS (for lack of better term)!!!!
Face it, Jimmy Clausen is the REAL DEAL. He will be the 1st QB taken if he waits to come out after his senior season. And trust, he will make some NFL GM a very happy man...
September 30th, 2009 at 11:00 AM ^
Generally agree that he has a bunch of NFL potential and is fairly ready; he still chucks the ball wildly when under pressure, though.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:40 AM ^
Agreed
September 30th, 2009 at 11:18 AM ^
You had me at one of the best pro prospect this year (I like Bradford and Mallet more), but comparing him to the Mannings and Rivers is preposterous. He’s good, but not good enough for me to write a post defending him. Besides he hasn’t played against a good defense yet. If he puts up numbers against SC then I'll give him more credit, until then he’s just Ryan Leaf to me.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:37 AM ^
I was comparing them in terms of arrogant. You can't compare NFL success to College success, at all.
Bradford is in a system where QBs are all going to do well. Jason White had no knees and still won a Heisman Trophy. Josh Huepel never did anything after college. He has a stable of backs and receivers to give the ball to. He plays in the no defense Big 12. Bradford has no mobility at all and that will be exposed in the pros. However, in my opinion Bradford probably is the 2nd pure QB behind Clausen. (Tough Argument here).
Ryan Mallet hasn't done anything noteworthy to date. He is not in even in the same league as the guys that I mentioned previously (the big 3). Yea, he is going to be a big time QB in the SEC, but he is a year out. Jimmy was a year out last and this is his year. By the end of the season he will be a legitimate Heisman candidate, poised to be at the top of all draft boards next year. Jevean Snead is someone that I thought has been impressive in the past, but his game last week against a VERY GOOD South Carolina defense was a rough outting. Mallet hasn't impressed me the past two weeks. Yea, he slings the ball around (all of Bobby Petrino's QBs do), but his completion rate as been subpar...
September 30th, 2009 at 11:43 AM ^
He still has 8 more games to play before I am ready to anoint anything on Clausen. That said, the things he has shown this year and the times that he has shown them, are very very impressive.
September 30th, 2009 at 3:54 PM ^
if clausen waits until after senior year to go pro, a redshirted junior named mallett will be drafted ahead of him.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:27 AM ^
Haters hate Clausen's celebrating because he's good and let's face it, a white guy just doesn't look as cool doing the head nod. Dude can ball and MIGHT be a good pro. I don't think he can hold McCoy or Bradford's jocks though. The celebrating is a homer thing. Most of us love it when Tate does it. But Jimmah doesn't taunt or celebrate when he throws an incompletion, which is the equivalent of what Boo Boo does when a receiver ten feet in front of him drops the ball.
September 30th, 2009 at 7:49 AM ^
No question he is an idiot and I hate when anyone celebrates on their own instead of with their teammates (minus Chad Johnson who I find pretty funny). I must say some of our guys do similar things (on the defensive side of the ball) which is odd since they have really not done a lot worth celebrating IME.
September 30th, 2009 at 8:32 AM ^
It seems to me that many of their players are displaying classlessness when they succeed - Golden "Showers" Tate (LOL @Super J), the Emu, and Allen have all acted like pricks when they've hit pay dirt. I think it's a reflection of the coaching more so than the 18-22 year olds playing.
On the flip side, I think RR is doing a fantastic job channeling our player's enthusiasm after a big score (Matthews after the GW TD against ND, case and point).
September 30th, 2009 at 9:06 AM ^
He threw a game-winning touchdown pass and...celebrated. It's not a big deal.
September 30th, 2009 at 10:25 AM ^
Agreed 100%. As much as he annoyed me with his butt dance against Michigan, at the end of the day, the kid is excited and pumped.
One thing worth noting, he sat out a lot of the Purdue game due to his injury, then came back at the end because ND needed him. He delivered. Kudos to him.
September 30th, 2009 at 10:35 AM ^
I've actually been impressed with ND the past two weeks. They lost their best offensive player, their QB has a gimped ankle and can't run, and last week they lost their starting HB. Despite that, they gutted out two close game.
September 30th, 2009 at 9:20 AM ^
I remember thinking the same thing when I saw him do that head nod thing against Purdue...pure doucheness.
It's not the celebrating...it's doing it in the most cocky and douchy way possible.
The ass dance takes the cake. He sucks and he is an EMU
September 30th, 2009 at 9:28 AM ^
Clausen proves time and time again that he is a classless punk.
September 30th, 2009 at 10:27 AM ^
How is he a classless punk? He didn't over do anything. He doesn't taunt opposition.
After the Michigan game, he stuck around to congratulate Tate personally. Classless? No. Is he annoying in general, maybe.
September 30th, 2009 at 10:01 AM ^
yea, classless, like when he congratulated Forcier after his game-winning drive against Notre Dame.
ND fans, and other rival fans, probably think Tate celebrated like a douche when he scored on that TD run vs. ND; when he pointed up into the stands.
I hate ND as much as any UM fan, but this is the highlight of these athlete's lives and they are under immense pressure to perform at a high level. You can't blame them for celebrating when they score.
September 30th, 2009 at 10:19 AM ^
I have fairly high levels of tolerance for post-touchdown celebrations and cranky old man levels of tolerance for almost everything else.
FWIW, here is my personal logarithmic scale of tolerance for post-play shenanigans:
10.0: Game-winning touchdown
9.9: Game-winning field goal
9.0: Touchdown off kickoff/punt return
8.0: Other touchdown
7.0: Other field goal
6.0: Blocked punt
5.0: Interception
4.0: Caused fumble and recovery
3.0: Other fumble recovery
2.0: Sack
1.0: Other TFL
- eleventy billion.0: Ordinary tackle
- twelvety billion.0: Defended pass where you were beaten but the guy just dropped the ball (cough, cough, Boubacar)
September 30th, 2009 at 10:29 AM ^
I'm not the only one who notices that Boubacar celebrates way, way too much. When he does that crossed arm thing where he's trying to look like a bad ass because a guy just dropped the ball I just shake my head...
September 30th, 2009 at 11:31 AM ^
9.1 Interception for touchdown
9.05 Fumble recovery for touchdown by defense
7.9 Safety
6.1 Spectacular interception
5.5 PBU or tackle on 4th down that allows the O to go into victory formation
4.5 Big PBU on 4th down
3.5 Big PBU that forces a punt or FG attempt
2.5 Big PBU (like in the endzone)
+0.5 for any of the TDs where a dude springs you with a crushing block and you get to celebrate with him.
And on the twelvety billion.0: Yes, yes, a billion times, yes.
September 30th, 2009 at 10:40 AM ^
since at least the pa touchdown pass to Tate against M last year. Between the head nods and pelvic thrusts, it's clear he's a huge fucking dork trapped in a star athlete's body.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:07 AM ^
If you keep calling Jimmah a dork, you're soon going to have dorks crawling out of the woodwork to kick you ass for associating them with him. It's simply not being fair to the dorks.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:10 AM ^
I wasn't too fond of it myself but with the way some of you guys have responded, makes me want to savor every moment of it.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:29 AM ^
You can savor Jimmah's pelvic thrusts. I'll savor the final score.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:11 PM ^
He's not "classless" because he does it, like some are saying. I just think it's goofy. There's no denying he's had a good year so far. I think his waiting on Forcier to shake hands is more of an indicator of his sportsmanship.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:15 AM ^
Short of being way over the top (Desean Jackson forgetting to bring the ball into the endzone because he was too focused on celebrating - once in HS, once in the NFL), I don't see how we can judge spontaneous emotional responses to a kid having success in a high pressure situation. Sure, many of us can say, "when I was in HS and I scored/hit a home run/etc., I didn't act like that." Whatever. If I was QB at ND, UM, etc., and handled a high pressure situation by scoring a last second TD, I may or may not spontaneously combust.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:18 AM ^
.. to the US soldiers fighting abroad. I know for a fact that our troops do that butt dance after EVERY insurgent they kill. Jimmy Clausen is a fine 'murican.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:22 AM ^
Irish, your comment spoke to me. Then again, so is my dinner from last night but that is another topic all together. All right all you fellow Michigan fans, would we be as critical of Jimmah's ass dances if it were Forcier doing them? Answer this question while keeping in mind that we wouldn't have offered him if he had done ass dances in high school.
I'm thinking I would rather enjoy how much it aggravated others, but at the same time it would be extraordinarily embarrassing. As a coach, I would make him run until he coughed up his liver for doing it.