Gruden to talk about Cam Pre-Season and Now on ESPN...

[Kettle]

watching on my phone. its coming up again just as I thought it would.

[Cary Kollins]

Gruden is just a hater cause he thinks Steve Smith is Freddy Kruger.

[footballisasport]

Well this is nice and all, but honestly I've never heard Gruden say anything bad about anyone for as long as he's worked at ESPN. He's the most overwhelmingly positive commentator I've ever heard :p

We all know that Cam knew his own offense and that the Gruden segment is meaningless, but Cam DID blow that interview. Gruden didn't ask an unfair question, HE might have known what Auburn's playcalling scheme but Gruden didn't do these things just to get a better understanding of Auburn, he's not a scout he works for ESPN.

He wanted Cam to explain to America what his playcalling scheme was, and Cam didn't do a good job at all. Luckily that doesn't matter on the field.[/QUOTE]

So why didn't he do it with all the other rookie QBs...

[CatMan72]

I still shake my head at Jimmy Jam's Griden interview answer...

So, Jimmy, what makes you think you are ready for the NFL.

Uh, Coach Weiss says I am.

smh

LOL, forgot about this... but it's very telling.

[CatMan72]

Well this is nice and all, but honestly I've never heard Gruden say anything bad about anyone for as long as he's worked at ESPN. He's the most overwhelmingly positive commentator I've ever heard :p

We all know that Cam knew his own offense and that the Gruden segment is meaningless, but Cam DID blow that interview. Gruden didn't ask an unfair question, HE might have known what Auburn's playcalling scheme but Gruden didn't do these things just to get a better understanding of Auburn, he's not a scout he works for ESPN.

He wanted Cam to explain to America what his playcalling scheme was, and Cam didn't do a good job at all. Luckily that doesn't matter on the field.

He wanted to "expose" Cam's playcalling scheme, Cam answered the question correctly, the answer was "36" which stood in stark contrast to the "X right slot, Z wing, blah, blah blah..." NFL playcall that Gruden gave him. It brought the show a lot of attention which is Gruden's primary job as a TV personality.

I just think it's funny that he now says the whole "36" thing wasn't a big deal, when he's the one that made it a big deal to begin with.

[The_Mango55]

So why didn't he do it with all the other rookie QBs...

I'm sure he did. He's with these QBs for several hours and it gets edited into a 20 minute video. Actually I do remember him asking some other QBs about their playcalling.

He wanted to "expose" Cam's playcalling scheme, Cam answered the question correctly, the answer was "36" which stood in stark contrast to the "X right slot, Z wing, blah, blah blah..." NFL playcall that Gruden gave him. It brought the show a lot of attention which is Gruden's primary job as a TV personality.

I just think it's funny that he now says the whole "36" thing wasn't a big deal, when he's the one that made it a big deal to begin with.

He then gave Cam a chance to explain what 36 was and draw it up but he didn't. And how is he the one making a big deal of it? He doesn't edit the things himself.

I don't think that makes Cam dumb and clearly it doesn't affect his ability to comprehend a playbook but he didn't do that part of the interview well at all. The rest of his QB Camp went fine and IIRC Gruden praised him after it was aired.

[Montsta]

Gruden loves our redzone package, yet we probably lead the league in kicking FG's instead of scoring TD's. :(

[mav1234]

Gruden loves our redzone package, yet we probably lead the league in kicking FG's instead of scoring TD's. :(

while I do think some is poor playcalling, that has improved lately. A lot of that is also the length of drives due to field position.

[The_Mango55]

I too like our red zone package. I was thinking how hard it is to stop when Cam faked a handoff to Stew going left freezing the D for a run, then took 2 running steps forward to the right drawing the D up to stop a QB run, then pulled up and threw a relatively easy TD pass.

[teeray]

while I do think some is poor playcalling, that has improved lately. A lot of that is also the length of drives due to field position.

I like how it has evolved. Putting in a lot of these read options in the red zone are proving to be very productive and I think we will continue to grow those packages.

[Sword]

i've heard many players say the playbook they have now is the largest, most complex thing they've ever seen; and Cam still isn't allowed to use a wristband. I can imagine when he misses wildly or struggles on a couple drives that not everyone is on the same page as to what play was being called..

[Brad Piff]

Vid?

[mav1234]

i've heard many players say the playbook they have now is the largest, most complex thing they've ever seen; and Cam still isn't allowed to use a wristband. I can imagine when he misses wildly or struggles on a couple drives that not everyone is on the same page as to what play was being called..

This is *exactly* why Legs is so important, and what the vast majority of fans miss about the role he is playing in this offense.

There's only so much that on-the-field leadership makes up for terrible play, sure, but he's been much better in recent weeks than the start of the season. His dropped ball at the end of the game was bad, but meh, he also had some nice plays.

[whatever]

Well this is nice and all, but honestly I've never heard Gruden say anything bad about anyone for as long as he's worked at ESPN. He's the most overwhelmingly positive commentator I've ever heard :p

We all know that Cam knew his own offense and that the Gruden segment is meaningless, but Cam DID blow that interview. Gruden didn't ask an unfair question, HE might have known what Auburn's playcalling scheme but Gruden didn't do these things just to get a better understanding of Auburn, he's not a scout he works for ESPN.

He wanted Cam to explain to America what his playcalling scheme was, and Cam didn't do a good job at all. Luckily that doesn't matter on the field.

how was Cam supposed to elaborate on"36"? like Oregon and several other schools, Auburn gets their plays from flash cards on the sidelines. it was clearly a loaded question. most of the viewers wanted to see Cam painted as someone that was too dense to learn an NFL offense and Gruden gave them what they wanted to see.