That's right. Cam was never going to have complete control of the offense & even admitted so in the presser for Media day in 2013. That's been the problem this year & in the past. Too many hands in the pot, fricking up the "gumbo".

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Cam Cameron was ready for the question.

It is, after all, the one he's been hearing for months, ever since he was named LSU's offensive coordinator in February.

How much of the 2013 LSU offense will be Cameron's? Or will, as persistent public perception suggests, the Tigers' new offensive coordinator be another figurehead through which head coach Les Miles runs his ground-and-pound offense.

"The answer is, yes I am ultimately in charge of making every call," Cameron said Sunday at LSU's media day. But that came with about 200 well thought out words to qualify that answer. The gist: It's his call, but it's not necessarily his offense.

"It's LSU's offense, No. 1," he said.

As offensive coordinator, he'll obviously have great influence and autonomy.

But ...

"Les has tremendous input," Cameron said. "I enjoy his input. We talked about it before I came here. That is part of what attracted me here."

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The worst thing you can do to a young QB is have too many voices in his head. We have had Cam telling a young Brandon Harris to be aggressive & trust what his eyes see but on the other hand you have Miles preaching to him ball security. You can't have it both ways without stunting his progression. It has to be one or the other.

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“No. 1 you have to be careful. You have to be careful about planting,” Cameron said. “You're trying to teach a lesson, but you plant too many seeds in a guy's head, and now he starts chasing ghosts. I tell the QBs I'm the ghost chaser. I'm the guy who plays the scenario game. You cover one thing with a young player, and then they fixate on it. Now, they become blind to other things. You have to be smart.

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“… There's no manual to the deal. These are living, breathing human beings. Every situation to a lot of those guys is new, so you have to draw on their experience. Based on their level of experience and their maturity level, they're all different.”

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Miles has been really good for the LSU program but he is also his own worst enemy. Cam has pelts on the wall when it comes to developing several young quarterbacks. Miles has none. Coming from an offensive line background, Les never had the insight & touch to develop quarterbacks. When he hired Cam in 2013, he should have completely stepped back & let the man do his job. If so, he wouldn't be on the chopping block as we speak.

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"Besides being physically and mentally tougher and being leaders, our quarterbacks have got to become better decision-makers. You see guys who were good high school players who couldn't play in college and good college players who couldn't play in the NFL. Those guys didn't develop the ability to make good decisions at the next level.

"Our guys should be growing in that area. You can work for hours, but if you go out there and can't make good decisions, especially with crowd noise on the road, you're only going to be so good.

"The last thing is all of our quarterbacks, not just Anthony and Brandon, need to be more accurate throwing the football. We can help that scheme-wise by giving them throws they can make.

That becomes hard to do when you have someone else changing play designs & play calls.

Part 1

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"We want a pocket-mobile guy, but not a run-first guy. We want someone who's tough, smart and can throw the ball like Zach Mettenberger, someone with a strong arm who's innately accurate."

"We want to develop as many guys to play at a high level as possible. You saw a team this past season (national champion Ohio State) that needed three quarterbacks.

"I said when I first got the job here that we want to have three starters. Somebody will read this and tweet right away, 'Well, we want just one starter.' I get where everybody is at, I understand the view right now.

"The bottom line is you've got to train them all. If you have to go to the second guy, you want to feel good about it. If you have to go to the third guy, you want to feel good about it. That's how what we want to develop them."

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What worked for a receiver like Jarvis Landry may not work just yet for John Diarse. What worked for Odell Beckham may not be ready just yet for Travin Dural or a Malachi Dupre. Will it be something they can do eventually? Absolutely.

"You have to continually evaluate that and be honest with yourself. You're not going to have veteran quarterbacks and veteran receivers every year. You've got to have a system that allows you take advantage of young players and old players."

Part 3