Watched it in it's entirety last night. WOW! One clip, of which about 10 seconds was used to make Cam look bad that went viral on the net was in no way indicative of Cam's overall performance, and that 10 second clip was mostly misunderstood in the first place. ESPN aired the overall show where they pieced together all 6 QBs in this draft, and then did a half hour individual on each. I wached the overall, and Cam's. Gruden got in to all of them with both good and bad things on tape from their college season. Cam looked as "smart" as any of them. He drew up some Xs and Os of a TD pass to Lutz, and talked very well about it, and all the coaching points of the play...his footwork, fake, read, and throw. As is the usual, the viral vid was yet another attempt to run Cam down, and/or Auburn by association.
He even grilled him about the final play of the BCS game. Cam basically said, yeah it was a kneel down call, but the goal line was right there in front of me, I protected the ball, and I had to try to get it in and win the game. Not a great thing to admit to, but, he gave as good an answer as was possible.
In comparison, he grilled Andy Dalton about a pass play where he threw in to coverage and nearly got picked. He asked him his read, and Dalton pointed out his first 2, one of which he threw to that was double covered. Gruden said, "what's your third read?". He pointed to the RB in the flat that didn't have anybody within 25 yards of him, literally. Gruden said "but you just had to try to get the big play and fit it in didn't you? How much of a big play would you have gotten if you'd hit you're third read?" Dalton said "he'd probably have gone 30 plus yards." Basically the same type of deal...not doing what you're coached to do, and trying to make a play doing something risky. But, Cam gets painted with a different brush every time he speaks or acts.
Cam's on the field drills seemed to leave Gruden very impressed.
If you can find it scheduled to air again, I recommend watching it. It was quite entertaining...all the QBs segments had something entertaining and interesting.