Malcolm “Cam” Cameron didn’t get to where he is in the NFL without knowing something about football. All of the armchair quarterbacks in town collectively can’t match his football IQ. He burns the midnight oil daily studying film, team tendencies, self scouting and brainstorming with his assistants.
He puts in the time and thinking you can do better is on par with skipping a trip to the doctor’s office and opting for a self-diagnosis.
So if Cameron is such a football brainiac what is going on? Clearly something is wrong!
How can anyone justify not getting the ball into the hands of one of the league’s premier playmakers more than 12 times against a (2-6) team?
Now before we answer this, let’s back it up a bit.
During the State of the Ravens address with team owner Steve Bisciotti last winter, it was painfully clear that Cam Cameron was placed on and to this day remains on notice. The team then removed all potential scapegoats by parting ways with Offensive Assistant Al Saunders and QB Coach Jim Zorn. There would only be one voice in the ear of Joe Flacco and those whispers would come from Cameron.
Good or bad Cam would be squarely in the crosshairs. Making a decision on the coordinators future would be cleaner without the peripheral smokescreens.
So, it goes without saying but I’ll say it anyway, it behooves Cameron to get both Ray Rice and Joe Flacco in their respective comfort zones in order to maximize their effectiveness and if that happens it helps Cam Cameron to step out of the crosshairs and save his job.
Said in a different way, the better Rice and Flacco do the more likely Cameron gets to collect a paycheck from Steve Bisciotti in 2012.
Why wouldn’t Cam then give Rice the ball more when the evidence suggests the team is far more successful when he does?
Why wouldn’t he then allow Flacco to do more in the offense like call more audibles, change up the cadence and opt in and out of a no huddle?
If doing these things as most fans suggest would improve his offense and improving the offense is a condition for his continued employment why wouldn’t he automatically do those things?
There’s more than meets the eye here folks.
Maybe the team has no confidence in their zone blocking schemes against a 4-3 defense. All three losses this season were at the hands of such defenses. And maybe REALLY giving Flacco the keys to the offense would make things worse and Cameron is simply willing to take a bullet for all of the struggles.
It’s not as simple as running more no huddle and running Ray Rice more. There’s more to it than that and the bet here is that Cameron is at least trying to mask other problems.
He’s not as inept as the fan base would leave you to believe.
