Auburn Primed to be National Signing Day Champs
Thought y'all would be interested in this.
What will Auburn's new offense look like?
Some of the best evidence we have is contained in the videos below. You have to be careful when looking at videos of any particular game. When I first started searching for Temple videos, the first one I came up with was Temple vs Ohio. I saw lots of option out of the spread/gun. However, that game was 9th game of the season, and I understand they were down to their 3rd string QB. The Temple/Villanova vid is their opener. The Temple/Akron video, is the second game, and is a conference opponent so that should be as equal a match up talent wise as we have to look at, and thus should be what he wants his offense to be at it's base.
The video starts with 6 minutes and change left in the 1st. I doubt this was their first possession. The first play looks like what is known as the "Horn Play" run by Nevada. Smartfootball.com If you think it looks similar to Malzahn's "Hand Sweep" you'd be correct.
The first scoring play is a pure dropback passing concept run to the trips side (TE and 2 WRs). It's a simple post/wheel combo, hitting the wheel for the TD. Haven't we seen Fannin and Lutz make big plays on the wheel route with this same type combo?
The two plays run in the red zone vs Akron when they went up 21-3 are simple power. Fullback or H back kicks out the end man on the line of scrimmage, the back side guard pulls and wraps through the front side just past the tackle's block, and the back follows. It can be run from a variety of formations, under center or from the gun. Folks, this is classic "power football" run from under center. That said we've been running power from the gun the last 3 years.
They also run lots of Counter. An example of that play can be found at about the 3:30 mark where the back cuts back against the grain, and scores on a long play. They pulled the back side guard to kick out the end man on the line of scrimmage, and brought the H back from his wing position to lead up through, which sets up the play action pass off that action that is the second play in the video.
At the 6:30 mark, you'll see an example of the Outside Zone with a FB lead run from a 2TE/3RB set under the center. Lots of good play action can be set up off this, and can be run from a variety of looks, with or without a FB lead.
Two plays later, you get an Inside Zone run away from the H Back/TE surface. Teams can't key the H Back.
Uh, oh! The dreaded "Wildcat" is back the very next play. They run the inverted veer. To the offensive line, this is blocked just like Power. Run the speed sweep, read the play side DE for a give or keep read. Same thing we did with Cam.
At about the 7:40 mark, another big play off "Power O".
The next play is a typical 4 Vert's dropback concept.
And the final scoring play? Yep, Power O!
You'll see the same things in the Villinova game.
Now, on to the Ohio game. Radical changes? More option? Not really. Looks a little different, or rather looks more like what Florida did with Tebow, and what we did with Cam, but here's the thing. Watch the first two plays. QB Counter, and then QB Power (Inverted veer). (When watching film on offense, watch the OL blocking, it will tell you where the ball is going) Blocking stays exactly the same as those plays run from under center, and that's crucial. That's the toughest thing to change and/or re-teach. Then right back to the Counter look for a play action pass. The fourth play looks like veer from the gun. But watch the OL. To them it's just zone, but away from the play side.
The first scoring play is a very simple, max protect, 2 man route, play action pass.
Right after that, the zone read. At about the 2:15 mark, you get a play action off the Zone look from under center. At the 2:24 mark, you see a variation of their normal counter. They run counter GT (Guard/Tackle pull) as opposed to GB (Guard/Back). The H Back's action freezes the DE they left unblocked just long enough, and they get a nice gain on QB counter.
Major differences? It appears the offense he chooses to run (when his QB isn't injured) uses more true TE with either an H Back, or Fullback from under center. Same concepts we've been seeing, but out of heavier personnel.
The passing game seems to have more straight dropback passing without play action for the vertical passing game than we've seen from Malzahn with the play action being mostly bootleg type stuff or roll-outs for the shorter passing game. In the Penn St. video, you see a few more "quick game" concepts, and some screens too. So, overall, I expect the passing game to be a bit more diverse.
Again, this is a small sampling, but I think the Akron game probably gives you a good idea of what to expect. Heavy run based in Power, Counter, Inside Zone, Outside Zone with TE/HB/FB used. Think Lutz and the new FB transfer on the field at the same time with down hill running. They also run a play that looks like ISO where they loop the H Back through to lead on the LB with no other puller. Could just as easily be run out of the I, but their version has a bit of a counter look to it too, but it hits the A gap.
Bottom line, he can make it look however he wants, and the base of what he does is very "pro style-ish".
Temple/Akron 2011 (via templeu222)
Temple Football (via Centnj)
Temple/Villanova 2011 (via templeu222)
Temple vs. Penn State 2011 (via mmp121)
Recruiting: The Ugly Truth
YOU BE THE JUDGE!
Unfair practices such as over signing prospective student athletes, have been banned by the SEC. Most schools are going by the rules.
In an article by Steve Eubanks of FoxSports.com that peers into the tactics some schools use to fill their rosters. The University of Alabama has a growing trend that should scare parents and athletes alike. It's being called over-commitment.
No exact numbers are available on over-commitments, although those who track such things put Alabama near the top of the list.
After lambasting the media last year with this...
"You're going to mess up the kids getting opportunities by doing what you're doing," Saban said to reporters. "You think you're helping them, but you're hurting them. You take one case where somebody didn't get the right opportunity, but you need to take the other 100 cases where somebody got an opportunity because of it."
Saban finds himself in the center of the media's sights again, with over-committing.
Joel Erickson of the Ledger-Enquirer, and blog master of The War Eagle Extra posted this article just this week.
For a lot of the kids being courted by colleges across the country, picking a school is the first big decision they’ve ever had to make. Kids all over the country who won’t be playing football in college spent the fall taking visits to colleges, trying to pick the best fit.
A verbal commitment is not a binding contract. At the most, it’s an indication that a recruit really likes Auburn or Georgia or Alabama or Georgia Tech. When a kid changes his mind and pulls out of that commitment, it doesn’t mean there’s any lack of character.
For any recruiter to mislead these kid's with scholarship offers, when they may not exist, is an absolute disgrace. It's one thing to try and sell your school, and tell them that you need them to help you win another championship, and quite another to offer a spot on the roster, and then pull it.
Some parents that are seeing the whole picture, will tell you all about it. Like this post on MomsTeam.com.
But logistics and expense aside, were there other things that were bothering her? As she had told other reporters, she also told me she was upset about the recruiting process and "the politics that surround it." Most worrisome, April said, was that "At ‘Bama they want to red shirt - or grey shirt - him and they want him playing nickleback instead of safety. He is the top safety in the country and he will never play a game his freshman year. Now, at LSU coach Les Miles is offering to play him as safety during his freshman year. His (Nick Saban's) goals don't meet the criteria of the family; they meet the criteria of Alabama."
The recruit mentioned in the story? Landon Collins. Yes that, Landon Collins. His girlfriend allegedly has a job in Nick Saban's office. I wonder what prompted him to verbally commit to Alabama?
Parents need to remember that these are grown men, with college educations, that are masters at their trades. They are dealing with 17-18 year old athletes, and pumping them full of sunshine. Not all of them are acting credible.
Recruiting is an absolute must for every major college football program. How those schools handle that responsibility is what separates the ugly truth, from those that operate above board.
It's no secret that during Brian VanGorder's introductory press conference he mentioned being "thrilled" at the opportunity to be "honest with recruits", during the process.The message being sent wasn't pointed Northward in our state, but to all points of the compass.
It makes me wonder how any parent would let their kids be deceived by the schools that aren't honest and up front with them. Follow the number of players that are getting misled, or grey-shirted, or just told to look elsewhere after their first year in a program. Instead of listening to the sales pitch of the Win/Loss records that are paraded around in living rooms across the country.
My word of advice to the parents and their rising star athlete, Look before you leap!
WAR EAGLE!
Friday Ramblings National Signing Day Primer

Recruiting....
It's that time of year again as we head down the stretch toward NSD. Many questions are to be answered soon, the least of which is, did Auburn hire their OC in time to help make a strong finish?
Auburn can only sign 23 recruits if my calculations are correct, of which five are already enrolled, and on campus. They are Illinois transfer Fullback Jay Prosch, Quarterback Zeke Pike, Linebacker Javiere Mitchell, and Offensive Linemen Shane Callahan, and Patrick Miller.
Auburn has 12 verbal commits, according to rivals.com, that have yet to sign Letters Of Intent (LOI), or enroll early. That list consists of 3 Defensive Backs, 2 Offensive Linemen, 2 Tight Ends, 1 Linebacker, 1 Running Back, 1 Wide Receiver, and 2 Defensive Linemen.
If Auburn holds on to the remaining verbal commits, that leaves 7, as the number of athletes that can sign to play at Auburn this year.
Of course, the scholarship situation could change among the walk-on players, but I am thinking that Coach Chizik wouldn't yank a scholarship from a player, unless the player were to be suspended. As far as we know, there are no suspended players on the football team, at this time.
On to the targets of the AU coaching staff. We know that there are a couple or more of 5* recruits that are waiting until NSD to announce their intentions. Of which several have Auburn listed among their favorites. How many we actually get sign is another matter. These highly rated recruits include Stefon Diggs - WR, Aziz Shittu - DL, Eddie Goldman - DL.
There are so many 4* rated prospects, that I won't try and name them here because I would not want to leave a name off, and seem disrespectful. Rest assured there are plenty out there that have AU listed among their final choices, although we may not see but a few of them, in Orange and Navy.
Program reminder....
Track Em Tigers will run an all day thread up until about 4 o'clock on NSD February 1st, 2012. Every single commitment will be covered here, along with information about each athlete that decides to join our wonderful family.
Thank GOD for our state media coverage...
If you have seen this phrase - "Auburn will not run the fast paced offense, as it did under Gus Malzahn" - in an article this week, raise your hand. I think that's about everybody, thanks. You may put your hands down now.
That was some "pure genius" news reporting. To come up with the combination of a new offensive coordinator, and the idea that the play calling will be different, had to take some serious digging for the facts. Take that, as the most sarcastic statement to date from this writer. The list of comments by the national media that spewed the obvious was actually much longer, I just had to make that one the example. It's like one reporter wrote a story, and everyone else copied down his notes.
In fact, the media bias is so bad in this state, and indeed the south, that some columnists have turned to sarcasm, and comedy to point out this absurdity. Take for example THIS post on chuckoliver.net...
"After much careful deliberation we determined continuing our 120 year tradition of football was the appropriate decision," said Auburn Trustee John G. Blackwell. "Considering Auburn is one season removed from the national championship and Heisman Trophy winner, and remembering we did participate and win a bowl game this season, we felt scrapping the program - as so many suggested - would be an imprudent step."
Chadd Scott hits a homerun with this parody, of the type of reporting Auburn sees on a daily basis.
At least one local media outlet has the audacity to want a monthly premium for their stories about Auburn football. I won't pay for recruiting news, what makes them think I will pay for their coverage of AU sports? If you are a paying member for this local newspaper's AU sports news, don't take this as an offense. It seems to me to be a lazy way of paying for their expenses, instead of actually finding some advertisers to support their product.
It's not just the print media either. The vast majority of the talking heads of the local news channels are so in love with themselves and all things against AU, that they can only give you the worst information when it comes to reporting AU news. I shouldn't even call them reporters.
It's like they have all anted up and hired the former SID from our little brother school in West Vance.
You know the guy, don't you?
Sure you do. The guy that gave us the term Mythical National Championship. The spin master that dreamed up the supposed extra championships they now claim.
If you listen to the sports news in this state, and take every word as gospel, you only have you to blame. Now, you can't say that I didn't warn you.
Now that the hiring is done....
I would not worry too much about the pace, nor the "style" of offense CSL will run at Auburn. If he is as good as we think he is, Auburn's offense will be more flexible, and able to adapt than ever before. We won't see many 3rd and 1 situations, with our QB operating from the shotgun.
We could go on and on about what went wrong with Auburn's offense last season, but we don't want to live in the past. Auburn has a "new beginning" according to our beloved head football coach, and we should concentrate our visions and efforts in that direction.
Comment of the week...
This is one of those rare occasions, that I get to say, that I not only do I agree with a comment, but that I have been saying essentially the same thing. The winner this week is SandMountain Tiger
Ive always said
that Auburn lives and dies by quarterback play. It’s not hard to look over the history of Auburn football and see that when we have great QB play, we have great seasons. While this may come across as a "no duh" statement, I think the ability of our new coordinator to develop QB’s can only be seen as positive. If he can get the most out of our guys and scheme around their strengths, I expect good things.
Conventional wisdom is that a good QB can make an average team good, and a great QB can make an average team great. How Auburn fans would ever find fault with this is baffling to me.
My take....
Have we lost our memories so quickly?
Can we not recall the wonderment and excitement we experienced just two season's ago? Cam Newton is just the latest example of how a great QB, can carry a team when it needs to be carried, and take them to the pinnacle of their football world.
Does it take a Cam Newton to win? No. What it takes is leadership, and control. We seen that in force with Cam.
It has been my contention throughout the OC search that Auburn NEEDED a QB coach. Too many times last season we saw indecision on the part of the QB's. All three of them. Now we wait and see, if the "guru" can coach them up, or if we search other parts of the earth for another QB.
My belief is that Clint Moseley, and Kyle Frazier have what it takes to win at Auburn. They now have a true QB coach to get them prepared for the better defenses in the league. That is not a knock on Gus Malzahn. I remember that it took Gus four weeks to fully realize what a talent he had in Cam Newton.
In the upcoming season, we won't have four weeks to evaluate the talent. It has to be done in practice, and in the film room. We must punish Clemson, and send a message to all others on our schedule. We're back!
WAR EAGLE!
A Look at Scot Loeffler
Who's driving the bus now?
(AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)
War Eagle everybody! It's been a tumultuous few weeks for Tiger fans, but last weekend things settled down when head coach Gene Chizik named Scot Loeffler as Auburn's new offensive coordinator. I think it's good to have the staff set going into national signing day. I know I'll look forward to watching A-Day this season. If nothing else, we'll find out what the new coaches consider to be "base" offense and defense.
On the defensive side of the ball, I think Brian vanGorder is pretty much a known quantity as a defensive coordinator with a decade or more of experience in the position at every level of the game. I'll be honest, here. The first thing that jumped out at me when I started reading Scot Loeffler's history is that he has only a single year of experience as an offensive coordinator, and that was at Temple. One year, in the MAC.
It's a funny thing. If Tommy Tuberville had made this move five years ago, we'd have been incredulous. Up in arms. Asking if the man had lost his mind? And with good reason, after Nall Ball and other assorted incidents. I suppose after the past few years, perspective has changed. We hired a 5-19 head coach and a high school coach to run the offense, and we won a national championship the second year. In fact, of Gene Chizik's hires, only the veteran coordinator (Ted Roof) didn't work out so well. Rather than jumping off buildings, I think the Auburn faithful are confident that Chizik knows what he's doing.
So we know that Loeffler has only been a coordinator for a year. What is his other background? We hear Tom Brady and Tim Tebow mentioned frequently in connection with Loeffler. Did Loeffler recruit these guys out of high school and turn them into great quarterbacks? Well.. not exactly. Let's take a closer look.
Loeffler was a Michigan quarterback from 1993-1996. An injury ended his playing days, so he became a graduate assistant at the same school. During that period in the late 1990s, Michigan produced Brian Griese and Tom Brady, both of whom ended up as NFL quarterbacks. Whether a grad assistant gets full credit for a quarterback's development is questionable, but certainly Loeffler did have SOME influence on things. Brady's last two years yielded a 61.9 percent completion percentage, with 35 touchdowns and 18 interceptions. Most importantly, he averaged 7.55 yards per pass. These are good numbers, but certainly not great.
John Navarre was a redshirt freshman when Loeffler left to take a job at Central Michigan. Navarre went on to be a three year starter at Michigan. His career numbers include a 56 percent completion percentage, 72 touchdowns, and 31 interceptions. Navarre averaged 6.77 yards per pass. Again, those are solid numbers. Navarre passed for over 9000 yards in his career, which says good things about his durability in the Big-10, if nothing else.
After a two year stint as the quarterbacks coach at Central Michigan, Loeffler returned to Michigan as the quarterbacks coach in 2002. He finished up Navarre's last two seasons, then worked with Chad Henne. Henne went on to start for 4 seasons, and most of his numbers would be school records if he had played at Auburn. 828 completions, 1387 attempts, 37 interceptions, 9715 yards, and 87 touchdowns. That's a career 7.0 yards per pass average.
Loeffler was quarterbacks coach for the Detroit Lions in 2008, leaving Michigan as the Rich-Rod era began. I'll be brief here, and note that Detroit had an abysmal 0-16 season, and the organization dumped Loeffler's quarterbacks to draft Matthew Stafford.
Loeffler joined the Florida Gator staff in 2009, and coached quarterbacks two seasons there. He tweaked senior Tim Tebow's mechanics, and Tebow generated some rather eye-popping stats. Tebow hit 67.8 percent of his passes, with 21 touchdowns and only 5 interceptions. Tebow's 9.2 yards per pass average led the SEC, and he added another 910 rushing yards. Most folks remember only Florida's humbling SEC title game loss to Alabama from that season, but Florida did go 13-1, finishing 3rd in the nation.
The 2010 Florida season was a disappointment, and it was a downer for Loeffler. Junior quarterback John Brantley replaced Tebow, and his numbers were not so good. He hit 60.8 percent of his passes, but had only 9 touchdowns vs. 10 interceptions. Brantley averaged 6.26 yards per pass, which is pretty much average in the SEC. In Loefller's defense, it could be said that Brantley was really not suited to run Urban Meyer/Steve Addazio's spread offense.
After the Meyer regime collapsed, Loeffler landed the offensive coordinator job at Temple. With a bit of a look at the statistics, the job Loeffler did is outstanding. Temple could not keep quarterbacks healthy, but still managed to ram it down the MAC's throat with over 3000 rushing yards. A trio of quarterbacks completed 58.6 of their passes, for 11 touchdowns and only 4 interceptions. Temple averaged 8.3 yards per pass, which is a good number. This team finished strong offensively, tromping on Wyoming in the New Mexico Bowl, 37-15.
If nothing else, Loeffler's season at Temple showed great adaptability. He was able to devise an effective playbook, and translate that to success on the field. Temple averaged over 30 points per game under difficult circumstances. It should also be noted that Loeffler called plays on gameday for at least part of his time at Michigan. While he's only got two years of SEC assistant experience, he's schemed against Big Ten defenses for multiple years.
My verdict on this hire is that Chizik got a young guy on the way up. Loeffler's bio is more impressive if you look closely, and the fact that established NFL quarterbacks still look him up for off-season work speaks volumes. There will be some struggles at Auburn in the new offense, but Loeffler's history suggests that he finds ways to get it done. He's also been able to put young quarterbacks out there and make them productive quickly. As I said before, I'm really looking forward to seeing what his base schemes will be at Auburn, on A-Day. War Eagle!
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Tigers' Great Defensive Effort Falls Short in Loss to Arkansas
Auburn knew they had to play great defense last night to have a chance to beat a hot Arkansas team at home - and that's what they did. However, in the end it came down to scoring a basket as the Tigers lost at the buzzer 56-53. It was the second heart breaker on the road the Tigers have had to endure in the last eight days.
It was a wild game from the start as Barbee's Tigers came out with a ferocious defense that held the Razorbacks to zero points for the first six minutes of the game. It was a defensive struggle on both sides with the Tigers leading at halftime 22-19.
Until now the Tigers' have been 10-0 when leading at the half. But the Tigers were without the services of guard Varez Ward who went out in the first half with an injury to the thigh and shooting guard Josh Langford missed all of the second half after his head took a hard hit on the floor while fighting for a ball.
The Tigers still fought back hard in the second half in front of a large and rowdy Razorback crowd. Auburn out shot Arkansas from the field 40 percent to 35 percent and out rebounded the Razorbacks 42-29, scrapping and fighting all the way to the buzzer.
It was a great defensive effort - exactly the kind that Barbee has been demanding from this group. Yet at the end, what was needed was for someone to be able to make a shot. And the Tigers had three chances on two different possessions to make 3-pointers that could have won the game or at least sent it into overtime. Frankie Sullivan and Chris Denson both missed open chances and Kenny Gabriel's attempt slid off the rim at the buzzer.
Coach Barbee said afterwards that he was really proud of the way his Tigers fought. "Any time you lose like that, it is a heart breaker ...Any time you go on the road in this conference and you can play that hard and fight that tough and give yourself an opportunity to win, that's all you can ask for. We had our chances. Unfortunately, they made a couple more plays than we did at the end."
This was a tough loss but now the Tigers have to put it behind them and get ready to play Tennessee in Knoxville Saturday night. The game is scheduled for a 5 pm CST tip off and will be broadcast by ESPN2.
Tigers At Pivotal Point In SEC Schedule
After jumping out to their best start in seven years the Auburn Basketball team was faced with opening SEC play against, Vanderbilt and Kentucky, two of the best teams in the league. The result was an 0-2 start in conference play.
But something happened in the second loss that provided hope for Barbee's second Auburn squad.
The Tigers played with a defensive tenacity that here to fore had been lacking. They took No.2 Kentucky to the wire in a contest that was not settled till the final moments.
Then the Tigers pushed Ole Miss in to double overtime winning 69 - 68 and dropped a hard fought overtime heart breaker to LSU. Now at 12 - 7 ( 2-3 SEC) the Tigers seem to be energized as they head into the middle of the SEC schedule.
That energy was apparent last Saturday when the Tigers gave a dogged defensive performance in downing South Carolina 63 - 52. It appears the Tigers are finally playing the scrappy grinding defense that Barbee has been pushing for all season. And it started with the hard fought Kentucky loss.
Forward Kenny Gabriel said, "We finally grasped how hard we need to play to win games ... we feel like we can play with anybody if we raise our intensity to their level."
Tony Barbee believes the Tigers have, " Found a style that I think is going to work for this team. It is to shorten the games and grind it out."
That style worked almost to perfection Saturday as the Tigers forced 23 turnovers and shut down the Gamecocks in the second half.
"It's finally starting to click," said Barbee. "If you will guard with that sense of urgency, that sense of toughness on every position, then, no matter what you do offensively, you're going to give yourself a chance to win."
Maybe the Carolina game will be the momentum Auburn needs to make a run in the SEC.
But the Tigers face a tough two game road test beginning tonight at Arkansas. The Razorbacks may have played their best game in recent years Saturday as they beat No.20 Michigan 66-64 in front of 19,500 fans in Bud Walton Arena.
After Arkansas, the Tigers have to travel to Knoxville to play Tennessee, a team that just knocked off Defending National Champion and No. 13, U Conn.
This weekend will be a pivotal point of the season. But as Barbee said after the Kentucky game, the Tigers can give themselves a chance if they play with that same sense of urgency and toughness.
Wins on the road against the Hogs and the Vols is a tall task. But if the Tigers keep playing like they have the last four games it is doable. And it could mean jump starting a run into the post season.
I'm not saying Auburn is going to win the SEC but if the Tigers can win even one of these two games, they will be on their way to a winning record and have a chance at post season play.
Two wins here could provide momentum to take Auburn to the next level; losing both could start a slide in to mediocrity. How the Tigers perform in the next two games will be pivotal for the rest of the season
Doubters Take Note, Cam Newton NFL Rookie of the Year
Remember when former Pittsburg Steelers quarterback and Fox football analyst, Terry Bradshaw made the following statement:
"I'm not a Cam Newton fan. I didn't like him in college ... as far as I'm concerned, he's behind Michael Vick coming out of college. I actually like Jake Locker at Tennessee, Christian Ponder up at Minnesota and Blaine Gabbert down in Jacksonville. These young kids are far ahead of Newton as far as being an NFL quarterback."
Well just how wrong could you've been Terry?
Cam Newton just finished his first year in the NFL and what a year it was. He threw 21 touchdowns and accounted for the most yards by a rookie in NFL history 4,051. He also ran for 706 yards and set a new NFL record for most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in a single season with 14.
That accomplishment made Cam the first player in league history to pass for 4,000 yards and rush for at least 500 yards in a single season. And he did it for one of the weaker teams in the NFl. Oh .... and he did it as a rookie.
And for his record setting year the players, coaches, and NFL executives have voted Newton the Sporting News NFL Rookie of the Year.
To be fair to Bradshaw he wasn't the only expert that expressed doubts about Cam's ability to be successful as a pro quarterback, there were more doubters than believers. But after Newton starting playing at the next level, he turned most into believers.
NFL.com senior analyst Gil Brandt, a former Dallas Cowboys vice-president of player personnel, wrote a column earlier in the season saying after watching Cam play that he thought he was the best rookie QB he had ever seen,
"I've scouted thousands of players and wouldn't make this statement lightly ... Cam Newton is the most impressive rookie quarterback I've seen come into the league."
High praise from someone who made a living assessing NFL talent.
By the way, Cam also had one more accolade this week when he was selected for the Pro Bowl roster. If you want to watch it, the Pro Bowl will be played this Sunday, Jan. 29 at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The game will be televised by NBC at 6 p.m. CST. Maybe Bradshaw can watch it with Blaine Gabbert.
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Thanks to Sand MountainTiger for the following video on Cam's journey to Rookie of the Year:
Cam Newton - The Journey (highlights) (via jsinghncsu)


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