“You guys don’t get in the huddle much though, right?” Gruden said. Having already proven his point, Gruden then gave Newton a lifeline. “I mean, you’re putting me on the - on the spot,” Newton said. “What would be a little verbal? Any recollection on that? “Call something at Auburn that’s a little verbal,” Gruden said, obviously knowing the answer to the question. Then Gruden rattled one off: “I mean, flip right, double-X, Jet, 36 counter, naked waggle, X-7, X-quarter.” As Gruden was firing off that play, Newton shook his head and smiled, as if he’d never head before anything like that, ever. You’ve got the shifts, the plays, the protections, the snap count, the alert, the check-with-mes,” Gruden said, snapping his fingers after listing each element of an NFL play call. “You know, some of this verbiage in the NFL, I don’t know how it was at Auburn, but it’s - it’s long. In a segment from Gruden’s second annual QB Camp playing currently in the perpetual SportsCenter loop, the former Raiders and Bucs coach tries to show Newton how different an NFL offense will be from the one he ran at Auburn. This year, Gruden has exposed one of the stated concerns regarding the man widely expected to be the first pick in the draft: Cam Newton.

Mike Mayock of NFL Network concluded that the segment may have hurt Clausen’s draft stock.

Last year, Jon Gruden’s too-bad-he-doesn’t-bring-it-like-that-in-the-broadcast-booth style of pressing incoming rookie quarterbacks adroitly cajoled Jimmy Clausen into placing blame on one of his receivers for a play that resulted in an interception.

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