I'm not sure who decided skittish should be the adjective of choice to describe New York quarterbacks but it's the hottest thing in town. On the heels of Giants GM Jerry Reese using the term to describe Eli Manning, CBS color commentator Steve Tasker called Kellen Clemens skittish after taking a sack during Sunday's win against the Dolphins. Clemens responded to Tasker after yesterday's practice."I'm sure that Mr. Tasker is making the best evaluation that he can. It's my job to go out and play. I'm making the decisions the best I can in the spur of the moment. Sometimes they're correct, and there are other times when they're not, but I'm out there doing the best I can."Clemens was sacked six times Sunday and most of them were a result of his slow/poor reads of the pass rush. D'Brickashaw Ferguson had a terrible game against Jason Taylor but elsewhere the line was solid. Clemens did a poor job evaluating when to throw the ball away and when to pull it down and run.
That's to be expected, though. He's five games into his NFL career and he's seeing things at full speed for the first time. It would be unusual for a quarterback to master the myriad looks and blitzes of NFL defenses that soon in his career. That makes a skittish label a bridge too far at this point. Still, he's been dropped 19 times already and improving his awareness is job one for Clemens going forward.
