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Kenneth Arthur and John Fraley are the G-Moneyball and Spectator of local football.  Arthur says,

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[Fellow writer 'Rob'] compared Clark to Jadeveon Clowney, saying that the only real differences were his troubles with the law, and the fact that Clowney was the number one recruit in the nation coming out of high school. It’s not just pre-draft buzz that carries an athlete’s hype train, it’s pre-COLLEGE buzz. Clowney was a top recruit and then in his first two seasons, lived up to the hype. Clark had many of the same physical gifts and also performed in college, but if you didn’t closely follow it, it’s not as though any Seahawks fans were like "we just need to make sure we can still get Frank Clark in the draft" last season.

Now perhaps the only difference between Clowney and Clark is that they could be very similar players with very similar gifts but one of them has a really, really bad knee. And it ain’t Clark.

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For the (very) casual football fan, Clowney was a #1 overall pick who was considered a generational talent, perhaps the 21st-century Mean Joe Greene.  He got a knee last year and the jury's out.  ... point is, there's a fun set of .gifs at this Field Gulls address.  What are you guys, dedicated or something?

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FIRST .gif:  Beating the guard was great, but the money shot was his burst in pulling down the ballcarrier.  Real football, in the trenches, happens blurry-fast.  Frank Clark has the 20-yard cone and dash times, and the 38-inch vertical, to prove he's got an extra step in this situation.

Willie McGinest once said, the NFL fan does not understand that the difference between him and an Adrian Peterson, scrambling to get around the edge, "was this much" (holding his hands two feet apart).  As soon as a running back loses that "extra blurry-fast" in the NFL, he's done.  As Frank Gore is now done.