Camp Gruden

I personally put a LOT of weight on his opinion. I watched him work very closely when he was with the Raiders and I was a new season ticket holder. I was very, very impressed with his entire coaching game.

 and at worst withdrawn.

Also interesting that the negative that Gruden pointed out for him was "You are the worst sliding QB I have ever seen. You need to learn how to take care of your body."

I have not been too worried about his injury potential up to this point. Now I’m thinking more about it. Not worried, but thinking more about it.

And not just with that but his lack of a strong personality is just something that is now reinforced — to me anyway — that’s kind of a big deal in your team leader.

Oh well, they will pick who they pick and I’m hoping for the best no matter what. I will not at all be surprised if they don’t take Bradford though. I think they’d really have to see something they love in him besides accuracy. And maybe they do, who knows.

..I haven’t seen any clips of Bradford with Gruden yet. I have seen clips of Jimmy Clausen and Colt McCoy with him. I watched the clips with the point of view of myself being a manager interviewing these kids for a job. They way it stands right now, I am hiring Colt McCoy. I was not impressed with Clausen. He answered Gruden like he was avoiding the questions or statements and there was very little eye contact. McCoy had constant eye contact and was quick with his intelligent responses. Signs of a leader.

I especially liked when he said that he earned the senior teammates’ respect as a freshman with his leadership in the huddle.

I saw Bradford’s interview first and first thing that came to mind was I didn’t think Bradford had a lot of respect for Gruden. I think Bradford listened to what Gruden had to say but I saw a boy who knew he had flaws(and knew what they were) and didn’t think looking at them with a stranger was enjoyable. McCoy’s interview was very charming, but I think the segment in general is pretty awkward. McCoy has the likability to keep the TV ratings up but not the football intelligence to win NFL games. I don’t know how anyone can say Suh/McCoy over Bradford/2nd Rd guy, I watched maybe 7 games of McCoy and just got a constant flow of simple decision making, I think McCoy’s version of the spread may have been the worst version of the three (Bradford, Tebow, McCoy). If I was choosing someone for The Bachelor 12 sign McCoy up, but someone to play football I think Bradford and Clausen are light years ahead.

PS This whole personality crap I think is blown way out of proportion, if I thought Clausen was a better football player than Bradford I’d say grab him but I don’t, Bradford is better. If your good enough, people will respect you, that’s it. If your bad your gonna get called out, if your good your not, just don’t be bad.

One can only hope the Browns get stupid and trade.

What a dream scenario.

believe that one can’t be a successful athlete without being the most talkative or outspoken person out there ? I don’t.

In fact, even though I am not to pick him at #1 (I want Suh), I like Bradford the best in these videos. He seems much more mature than the other three…

I guess the Rams coaches, etc are heading to Norman tomorrow to do a final workout with Sam. I do not know if this is really to work out Bradford with their scripts or start working on a contract :-)

Could help but laugh at the part about his height

" what are ya like 5’10 or somethin?"

He said this today in an interview on “Mike and Mike In The Morning”.