Former Texans fullback Tyler Clutts is the newest Dolphin fullback. Clutts is the guy that looked really good against us in preseason. Forget who it was that he kept pushing down the field. He had the guy's number though.
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Clutts is a bit of a journeyman.. UDFA in 2008...
Edmonton Eskimos (2008–2009)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Clutts
Played two years in the CFL. Poster child for the phrase "journeyman" Hard worker and reserve long snapper. Two years in the NFL and has 0 carries. -
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We have possibly the second best player in NFL history to come out of the CFL on our team right now. That's not necessarily a knock on somebody.
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Joe Horn. Saints WR. Played in the CFL for 2 seasons but never for a Canadian team. How is that you ask? The CFL briefly had U.S. teams and Joe Horn played for the Shreveport Pirates & Memphis Mad Dogs. He then went on to those K.C. years and then exploded in New Orleans. To this day we still get some Americans showing up at the Grey Cup game in their jerseys.
Seahawks punter Jon Ryan started off with the Blue Bombers.
U.S. CFL teams in the 90's:
-Sacramento Gold Miners
-Las Vegas Posse
-Baltimore Stallions
-Shreveport Pirates
-San Antonio Texans '95 (relocated from Sacramento)
-Birmingham Barracudas
-Memphis Mad Dogs
Stallions were actually successful and profitable (became the Montreal Allouettes), but the rest of the league wasn't. Although they only lost a combined $20 million over those few years. Compared to the other football leagues...a pittance.Drowning, Pariah, dolfan22 and 1 other person like this. -
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With my vast football knowledge i will add to this thread: Ringo Fonebone...
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Just seeing the Dallas/Houston game, listening to those terrible Dallas announcers, make Griese and Moore sound like Curt Gowdy and Merlin Olsen by comparison, and anyway, Texans had a long TD run called back by a holding call on Clutts. It looked like a really questionable call to me. Honestly. Not because we just got him.
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Texans and Klutts on NFLN right now!
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Jake Scott , the other #13 ;)
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The name was highly apropos in the Preseason Week 4 game against the Dallas Cowboys as he was lead-blocking for Cierre Wood on a play Cierre broke for a 49 yard touchdown...that was called back because Clutts held a guy unnecessarily.
However that said, his lead-blocking was generally good during the game. The Jaguars just cut Lonnie Pryor in order to make room for all their waiver claims. Pryor was a guy I was fan of in the Draft, as much as a ball carrier as for lead-blocking. But watching Tyler Clutts play and then watching a Lonnie Pryor play is instructive. Clutts is a veteran. He lead-blocked for Matt Forte in 2011 for a year so he's got experience. There's less hesitation in Clutts' lead-blocking as opposed to Pryor's. He's also much bigger at 6'2" and 260 lbs, so he can just lay into people and even if he's not stabbing them in the heart (which he rarely does, IMO), he's a big fella to try and get around. Lonnie Pryor doesn't have the knack for making linebackers stop whatever it was they intended to do prior to making contact. They're able to shed him because he's small and uses his hands too much.
On the other hand, Lonnie Pryor is a guy you can ask to carry the ball for you, especially in short yardage. Tyler Clutts is like an Evan Rodriguez. You're not going to ask him to do anything of the sort.Lee2000 likes this. -
Scott played for the Dolphins for six years and was eventually traded to the Washington Redskins after having a personality conflict with Don Shula. To this day, I would rate Scott the best safety in the history of the Miami Dolphins. He left college early and went to Canada to play professional football for a year, until he was eligible to be drafted by the NFL. The Dolphins drafted him in the 7th round of the 1970 draft.
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