I know what Finebaum was saying. He says the same shit over and over and over, just changes the names and teams.
I'm talking about Cam. Bias aside, that was a stupid fucking interview. I not sure he knew what he was saying. He was just opening his mouth and random thoughts were coming out.
Cam's not polished at speaking. To his credit he doesn't come off all ghetto, like say Ryan Mallet, but he tries to sound smarter than he is.
The part they're all harping on was his answer and delay in answer the question about an audible or play call at Auburn. He asked him that, then proceeded to rip off some long ass playcall that had about every formation, motion and tag imaginable. Cam, I suspect, was a little taken aback, and maybe a bit embarassed he didn't understand what Gruden had said. No way he could have though. Like Gruden noted, it's like learning a new language under each OC. And, they didn't give him any freedom to call plays at Auburn, it was all called for him on a board, or by hand signal. And Malzahn does it all VERY simply. One word play calls. It's all done by association. For instance, they may call all running plays by NFL team nicknames, like Steeler, or Cowboy. Then when they want to run a play action, they call the play Pittsburgh or Dallas, indicating the play fake action, and then the pass route combo with numbers on the board. Cam noted that he just looks at the board, and he said "there's 36 up there, and 36 is a play". It's far simpler than most NFL systems, and that's because they don't have the practice time to install voluminous playbooks. It's not Cam's fault he didn't play in a pro style system that allowed him the freedom of checks at the line, or use a wordy play calling system.
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