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Week 2 Other Games Thread

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5 minutes ago, L-TownCat said:

I remember not being sold on Cam.  Until I saw him in his first preseason start against the Bengals.  I went straight to the team store and bought his jersey.  

I wanted Cam but it was only because of the relatively new rookie wage scale. I would've been much more apprehensive projecting him to the NFL without that cap space protection back in the days when you were paying top picks like surefire HOFers right out of the gate. With the rookie wage scale I thought he was the obvious pick given his massive upside. Mobile QBs no longer have as much stigma around them and Cam was a big part of changing that.

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2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I wanted Cam but it was only because of the relatively new rookie wage scale. I would've been much more apprehensive projecting him to the NFL without that cap space protection back in the days when you were paying top picks like surefire HOFers right out of the gate. With the rookie wage scale I thought he was the obvious pick given his massive upside. Mobile QBs no longer have as much stigma around them and Cam was a big part of changing that.

I still wonder what it would have been like in 2011 if Cam actually got to have mini camp and the full offseason instead of that bs lockout.

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2 minutes ago, L-TownCat said:

I still wonder what it would have been like in 2011 if Cam actually got to have mini camp and the full offseason instead of that bs lockout.

Opposing defenses would've had full off-season too though. Given Cam's skill set coming in I honestly think that situation may have helped him. NFL defenses of that era just were not dialed in to defend the read option and RPOs. Nobody ran that stuff in the NFL.

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9 minutes ago, L-TownCat said:

I remember not being sold on Cam.  Until I saw him in his first preseason start against the Bengals.  I went straight to the team store and bought his jersey.  

Preseason three (at that time, the 'dress rehearsal' game) he looked horrible. Played great when it mattered though.

These days,the college game just doesn't teach pro level skills like it once did. Makes it much harder to identify QB talent.

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4 minutes ago, L-TownCat said:

I still wonder what it would have been like in 2011 if Cam actually got to have mini camp and the full offseason instead of that bs lockout.

I think it would have been worse for Cam.  He racked up 400 yards in each of the first two games, in part because (imo) the lockout hurt the defenses worse than the offenses.  In fact, if memory serves, there were more 400 yard plus passing games in those first two games than for the entire rest of the season.  Tom Brady had a 500 yard game.  

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