Ten Things I Think I Think

	Dolphins head coach Cam Cameron (left), with QB Cleo Lemon and quarterbacks coach Terry Shea, has sound advice for signal callers. Doug Murray/WireImage.com
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1. I think what Cam Cameron said the other day about how young players in the NFL have to constantly learn should be required reading for every young player. And veterans too. He was talking about fiddling with backup quarterback Cleo Lemon's mechanics, and he said:

"I think we did some tweaking of his technique, shoulder tilt, some things with getting his weight transferred, things we thought would make him more consistent and more accurate. He came into that first minicamp and he didn't execute one fundamental we had worked on because he hadn't repped them. We go back to quarterback school and I told Terry Shea, 'I'm not coming to the next four. I am staying out of your way. You guys just go to work. I'll get out of your way.'

"They went in, they have been hammering away and hammering away, and they went from working two days a week and Cleo, I think, started working five, six, seven days a week to get these things corrected. It was nice to see he came out and took all those corrections we are trying to make with his shoulder level, his weight transfer.

"We have been telling him, 'You're not going to be an accurate quarterback until you get these things corrected.' Today he was consistent and he was accurate. He was executing the fundamentals. Some guys can transfer those fundamentals. Some guys can get the fundamentals in a drill and they just can't transfer it to the game. It just breaks your heart as a coach because you know the guys could only become so good.

"I correlate it to Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods has won an unbelievable amount of golf tournaments and then realized he [wouldn't be] as good as he wanted to be unless he changed his swing. You can't believe what Tiger Woods did for every coach in America. When the best golfer in the world changes his golf swing to become better, you have an opportunity to say to the guys, 'We have to change these techniques or you are only going to get so good.' I give Cleo credit. He did that. Now you did notice the ball traveling accurately throughout the entire practice."

2. I think the more we hear from NFL teams that have had an interest in quarterbacks in the recent draft, the more we understand that there was JaMarcus Russell and then there was the field. Brady Quinn was a lot closer to the Becks, Stantons and Kolbs than he was to Russell. "Look,'' Cam Cameron told me Sunday, "I like Brady Quinn. I think he's going to be a good quarterback in this league. But that doesn't mean we think he should be a top-10 pick.'' Logical reasoning. I think what happened here is the more we all talked about Brady, the more we thought he should have been in competition with Russell for the top pick. But not many teams at the top of the draft really felt that way.

3. I think Brady Quinn needs to stop apologizing for things like not watering the plants when he left home this morning. The Joe Theismann rant about Quinn looking disheveled and chewing gum was silly, and Quinn said he was sorry like he'd just tripped an old lady crossing the street. Jon Corzine needs to apologize, Brady. Not you.

4. I think what's so insane about draft grades the day after the draft -- I don't give them -- is this: The same people who gave Dallas a C this year for an uninspired first-round choice (Anthony Spencer of Purdue) will give them an A next year because they'll have one high first-round pick and one middle- to low-one, and they'll pick players of some fame. The Cowboys should get the A this year, not next year, because this is the year they wrangled from Cleveland what is almost certain to be a high pick in 2008's first round, and for what ended up being, in essence, third- and fifth-round picks. Next year Jerry Jones will get more pats on the back for having Cleveland's first-round pick than he ever got for winning a Super Bowl.