Chud's Bible (Playbook)

[eViL jEsTeR]

The transition from college to pros at QB is the thing the people on this board seem to know the least about. Chud has earned respect in the league by using his playbook--not simplifying it. If he has to cut, simplify, and add pictures, we get another Davidson.

With the real possibility of not having an off season or preseason, why would you draft a QB who has 14 games of D-1 as a starter in a simple offense? Drafting Newton makes no sense unless you are agreeing to tank the season for the long-term hope that he becomes great, and Hurney said that only 44% of first overall QBs drafted since 1998 became consistent starters--not pro bowlers--starters.

this is something i think so many people are not even taking into consideration when they quickly assume we'll take newton with the #1 overall. we will be installing a down the field passing game and cam with his 1 read and run mentality will be far too huge of a project to fit the offensive system we want to run in the future. we'd be better off with ponder or hell, even yates from UNC than we would with cam which is why i'd love to trade down 5-10 spots, take a DT and get a 2nd to go for ponder or take yates later. i think either of those guys could run the offense better in 2 years than cam will be able to in 2 years.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Took me about 15 times.

[Brooklyn Bully]

Yawn. Just another "Cam is a dumb ignorant (insert adjective here)" article.

[teeray]

It's not:

[teeray]

[The_Cannon]

Article about Playbooks that was on ESPN a few years ago. It touches briefly on the size of playbooks and focuses on how players actually learn the book..it's a pretty good read

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/preview07/news/story?id=2973338

[Ohio]

I could see maybe 300 plays. When I played in high school our QB had a wrist band with 100 plays.

But during a game, when you take into account down & distance, tendencies from the defense, clock management, player personnel, you don't have enough to look for plays that fit the exact situation. From that I could see about 150 of those plays used on average. A lot of the other plays would be special situations, trick plays, 2 pt conversions etc...

Oh BTW, Bill Callahans playbook weighed 8 pounds. I thought I heard it weighed up to 12 pounds though. http://www.cornnation.com/2008/7/24/578772/slauson-the-husker-playboo

Take a look at that playbook

[Cat'sGrowl]

Yawn. Just another "Cam is a dumb ignorant (insert adjective here)" article.

If I were to insert another adjective there, the sentence would only be a fragment.

[Verge]

Yawn. Just another "Cam is a dumb ignorant (insert adjective here)" article.

[Sword]

i think this means we will be able to be more flexible with playcalling and tune the plays to the players since he has so many to choose from..he is probably a guy who considers all variables.

[panthers55]

Its probably just variations and sets of very similar plays.

Its probably 50 or 60, at most 100 plays, ran out of different formations and different motions. And each page probably represents these plays. Also, it is probably different plays playing to different QB's strengths. IE. If we drafted Newton, as opposed to a Mallet type.

And it take ANY QB several year to fully grasp ANY playbook.

I wouldn't look too much into it.

Exactly. Teams install plays through preseason and the regular season based on what they see and and what works depending on the personnel available. There is a difference between the playbook and installing a gameplan for a particular opponent. Players need to eventually learn the whole playbook but it is very normal to simplify it for a rookie or first year player. As you say there are basic sets and plays and variations of each one.

[CatMan72]

Why do folks automatically assume that Cam is too dumb to learn a 900 page playbook, or couldn't be expected to learn it as fast as any other rookie QB?

On top of that, you're going to have to dumb down a 900 page playbook for any rookie QB, so what does this have to do with Cam?

I don't think it's true, but this is the kind of thing that comes across to some as thinly veiled racism...

[MHS831]

Playbooks are not fixed. They are constantly changing.

[mav1234]

Why do folks automatically assume that Cam is too dumb to learn a 900 page playbook, or couldn't be expected to learn it as fast as any other rookie QB?

On top of that, you're going to have to dumb down a 900 page playbook for any rookie QB, so what does this have to do with Cam?

I don't think it's true, but this is the kind of thing that comes across to some as thinly veiled racism...

probably because he had a below average Wonderlic, but there's a lot more that goes into learning plays etc than that.

there's also the auburn offense, which... well, yeah.

edit: for instance, many around here point out how you can't consider Cam's first 6 games as representative of Auburn's offense or how he can play in an offense because he had yet to really grasp the playbook well enough to run the complete offense.