Frank Clark is a professional beast and deserves to start in the Pro Bowl
The Seahawks have two Pro Bowlers, both well-deserved: linebacker Bobby Wagner and punter Michael Dickson. But where is Frank Clark?
The Seattle Seahawks had two players named to the Pro Bowl. If Bobby Wagner or Michael Dickson had been excluded, there would be reasonable cause for a federal investigation. But where is Frank Clark?
Wagner has been the best middle linebacker in the league for years. The only man that rivals him is the Panthers Luke Keuchly, who joins Wagner on the team again.
Punter Michael Dickson probably could have made the Pro Bowl when he was ten years old. He leads the NFL in punting average, net average, and certainly has the best nickname. He’s as deserving as Wagner.
Seattle Seahawks
You know who else should have been named to the Pro Bowl from the Seahawks? Frank Clark, that’s who. Cameron Jordan, DeMarcus Lawrence, and Danielle Hunter are the NFC’s Pro Bowl defensive ends. Let’s take a look at who should really go, shall we?
The Saints Jordan has 12 sacks, 18 quarterback hits, and 17 tackles for a loss. The Cowboys Lawrence has 9.5 sacks, 20 hits on the quarterback, and 14 tackles for a loss. And the Vikings Hunter has 14.5 sacks, has popped the quarterback 19 times, and leads the league in tackles for a loss with 20.
Frank Clark, professional beast
Compare those numbers to Frank Clark. He has 12 sacks, 21 quarterback hits, and 9 tackles for a loss. Black Elvis falls behind the others in tackles for a loss, but he’s forced three fumbles and recovered another. He also has an interception and defended two other passes. Lawrence is the only Pro Bowl starter who checked off all those stats.
What’s more important is consistency. Clark has only had two games in which he didn’t get at least a sack or a quarterback hit. In the first of those, game one versus the Rams, Clark didn’t do much. Unless you consider a tackle for a loss, an interception, another pass defended and a forced fumble as doing much.
In the only other game that saw Clark stoned in sacks and hits, he had two solo tackles and two assists, so it isn’t like he went to sleep against the Panthers. How consistent were the Pro Bowlers?
Jordan has four games in which he didn’t get to the quarterback, although he did break up a pass in one of those. Lawrence was shut out in three games, and only managed a single assist in two of them. Hunter also has four games without a sack or hit. His came in a five game stretch in which he was battling injuries, though. He collected at least four tackles in three of those, and recorded two tackles, one for a loss, in the other.
So who sits to allow Clark to take his rightful place on the Pro Bowl squad? Lawrence, of course. He has fewer sacks and quarterback hits, and had too many unproductive games. Plus he’s a Cowboy, so by definition he sucks. If he played for the Seahawks, he’d be awesome, naturally.
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All three of these guys deserve their spot in the Pro Bowl. I’m really not knocking any of them. But Clark is more consistent than Lawrence, has better numbers in most of the edge rusher stats, and has a higher percentage of his team’s sacks. Frank Clark has 33 percent of the Seahawks sacks, while Lawrence has 27 percent of the Cowboys sacks. Lawrence is great; Clark is greater.