he had a sack and two total tackles for loss (basically his avg for the season last year) against georgia. if you watched the game it was apparent he had an impact its just that noone else did. it may be the loss of the dline coach to florida, it may be the defensive coordinator having a bad game, it may just be the talent around him or a combination of all of those.
going into the game last year there devin taylor setting the edge opposite clowney. he didnt get a ton of sacks his last two years, but he set the edge and kept contain so teams werent able to just roll out to the right every play away from clowney. while theres some prospective nfl talent on the defense its not the same defense as last year. they cant really run the 4 de package like last year. they had a two deep of experienced lb's and devonte holloman at spur that could contain the run. dj swearinger who could defend the pass and run equally well. i thought there would be some growing pains, but this is worse than the tv show.