MVP currently unemployed looking for his next job. It's
about a year ago that
he was at that youth camp and
that kid, kid, giving him give his business, right? That kid
was Karnak. That kid was Kreskin, that kid had a crystal
ball regardless. Here's Cam, Newton.
From the million dollars worth of game podcast. A Barstool
Sports production
with his views on
gender.
Here's camp.
Ahead of a perfect a perfect example of what a man was and
My Life by my father.
My parents have been together for 36. 37 years now and is in,
it's a beautiful thing.
I grew up in a three parent household. My mom, my father
and my grandmother
and I knew what a woman was. Not a bad.
Okay. What's the difference? A woman?
Okay, a bad cheese.
A person who's just,
you know,
girl. I'm not bad. You know, I'm doing this. I'm doing that.
I looked apart, but I don't act apart. Okay, you know and it's
a lot of
women who are bad
and I say, is it in a way not to degraded woman, but just to,
to to go off the aesthetic of
what they deem is a boss chick.
Now
a woman for me is
Handling your own, but knowing how to cater to.
A man's needs.
Like I'm a dish on my dad. No baby like, but you can't cook.
Okay. Don't know. You don't know when to be quiet. Don't
know how to allow a man to lead.
You don't want. I saw the Tweet with some of the quotes and
I started listening to it. I was expecting
something that went completely off the rails and stayed off
the rails. So initially I was like well, I mean this isn't
great but Cam
and then it builds and then the last 15 seconds. It's like
Archie Bunker's sitting in his
in his favorite chair telling Edith to go get him a beer.
I just and Look, let me just say this right out of
the gates. We're not trying to cancel
Cam Newton. This isn't cancelled culture. This is
somebody saying something that causes others to say. What
the hell is he saying?
Why is he saying it?
Why does he think this way? These are views that were
outdated in the early 70s for crying out loud and it conjures
memories of his press conference during the 2017
season. When Jordan Roderick, then of the
Charlotte Observer. Ever asked him about Devin. Funchess has
physicality and running routes, and he was very dismissive. And
said, I giggle. Like it's funny to hear funny to hear a female
talking about routes at it was so bad. The NFL issued
a statement condemning what he
had said, the NFL came out and said the comments were
unacceptable in 2017. And that was when he had a job. That was
when he was the starting quarterback
at the Carolina Panthers,
you know,
Chris viewing setting aside how Wrong headed.
The comments were how outdated, they were, how cartoonishly
laughable? They were
he and go get a job
if he's talking like that deaf. No One's Gonna Give this guy
roster spot because they're already not clamoring to sign
a hundred years already issues with having Cam Newton around
because he walks through the door and he's Cam Newton
and the other quarterbacks aren't and you undermine your
starter from the get-go, but you throw this on top of Vit
Cam Newton's going to have plenty of time to expand and
elaborate on what he was saying yesterday.
Because you'll be playing football.
No. No, I mean, I think his career was hanging by a thread,
you know, even before this, you know, you laid it out the right
way. I mean one, he's a unbelievable presence. In
the locker room, can almost be somewhat of a distraction to
a degree
Because of, You Know, The Lure of Cam Newton and what he was
in the NFL for so long, so I think there's that aspect.
We've talked about before to, I don't think he's really your
ideal backup quarterback to begin with. He's a guy that
needs reps. He's not a guy that just comes off the bench and
all the sudden is on fire and throwing lasers all over
the field.
So just from that, standpoint you go
man. I don't know. Where is it going to work for Cam Newton?
And we know Carolina said some things right about all day.
Love to have them back. It's like the only place I really
imagine them being or coming back to his Carolina.
It's the only place I imagine
having Open Arms with them, but this is going to throw,
you know, No, a wrench in any plan, right? I mean,
again, a little bit of a sensitive time in the NFL right now,
teams and the public. It's still,
you know, kind of recovering from the DeShaun Watson thing.
We're still in the midst of that. And then you're gonna,
you know, say things that are just yeah, out of touch
a little disrespectful. I mean, a little a lot. Sorry, I know
a lot and, and, and I just don't understand why
to go down that road
and then to I need the way you do,
right? Hey, whistle, and I know guys talk like, guys and
people. Hey, everybody talks their own private ways, in
their private quarters, great, but your Cam Newton, you got to
know that when you get a mic in front of you that it's going to
be publicized.
And when you elaborate on
your out, your idea of a woman and what women are and your
description of it and then do it in an unflattering way.
Just the fact that he didn't think that was going to be
used, or thrown out here and the public Is troubling to and
I just can't even believe that he went down that road. I could
really can't.
I understand there's a distinction between the private
and public lives of everyone in the right and things that are
not going to say into a hot microphone and anything you say
can and will be used against you if you uttered into a hot
microphone.
I'm just troubled by this image of Cam Newton sitting around
the house. Saying these things. Yeah, I hear you. It's almost
like a bad SNL skit.
Right. Yeah, like they did a remake so out of touch. This is
funny. Like, look at this guy. He's so out of touch. He's 35.
He's a man from 30 years ago. This guy look at it. We went
back in time
and try 300. Yeah.
I'm not 30, not 30, I'd say, 60, 70. 80. You can't cook. You
don't know when to be quiet. Yeah, that one is you do not
know how to allow a man to lead. Think about
those comments in the context.
Of the New York Times report from Super Bowl week that got
the attention of six Attorneys General. We talked about it
last week. Yeah, the disrespect that is exhibited at the league
office
allegedly, right. And within
some of the teams
also allegedly. Yeah, toward women and minorities but
the focal point of the letter. The focal point of the report that
sparked the letter was how women are treated. How women
are viewed, the outdated
mindset. Ridiculously outdated. So outdated that it
I don't know how far back
any of this was acceptable.
So
if it ever should have been, or could have been or even would
have been I just I'm astounded
by this and again, we're not trying to cancel Cam Newton. He
may be trying to he's doing a good job of it if he's trying
to write mean. This is this is as simple as the guy States.
His views
recently.
Into a microphone
for the world to hear
for the world to scrutinize, and for the world to react to.
That's why people speak into a microphone. They're not doing
it. Because
they like the act of speaking into a microphone.
You are using your voice to have it, projected to those,
who will hear what you say and React to what you say. Either
by agreeing
disagreeing, the one reaction that no one wants to provoke
from.
Time they speak in the microphone is nothing at all.
Is it is a yawn
is boredom. So, you know, there's an effort to share
views in a way that people will
will find sure taining and informative but my god, there
was nothing informative and it was only entertaining in a
I can't believe what I'm hearing sort of a way. And again when
you consider the climate you touched on it. Yeah that letter
from last week amplifies, right?
And and when you consider that really only the Panthers were
thinking about and Chris, the Panthers are thinking about it
for one reason and one reason only just like the way I am
right, right. Having Cam Newton under contract is going to get
people to show up. Right? Love camps. It may feel differently
after this. Yeah, but
when he showed up last year,
it was a mediocre team that no one was interested in
and it became a mediocre team that a lot of people were
interested in and they went to the games. So that's the only
reason the Panthers would sign him because it's bright shiny
object. It's Cam Newton. Come watch cam. And
it's like, Legends day
at Bank of America
Stadium. He's not the guy. He was 7 years ago, but you can
come see him in the flesh. Still a giant. He still looks
like Superman.
He just doesn't play
as super as he used to
come show up. Bring the kids by plenty of
overpriced popcorn, and hot dogs and beer and enjoy your
day out at Bank of America Stadium. Because, you know,
the soccer team had 70,000 people here if we can at least get
50,000. We got a problem.
Yeah, I agree with you. I mean, that's what he would be.
To a degree almost like a figurehead for
the organization. Like look. Hey, here's our greatest player in
the history of organization. He's still here, look smiling,
the kids in the stands, doing all that, get that. Yes,
and I think there's probably real value as far as Carolina's
concern for him in the locker room. I do think that that's
one place where
maybe it's a little different than the rest of the league
because they know him, they know what to expect of him.
I think he's happy just to be there, living in the area and
being in the place that he's most comfortable with.
I believe in Matt rule in the fact that he says, you know,
they loved his energy in the locker room. I think that was
a real thing. So
that's where and I think he realizes he's not going to be
the starter there. So he understands his place. It's
that's aimed to be the spot. If it was going to happen.
It would be there.
I don't know. Maybe, he's so big time there. It doesn't
really matter. But, you know, the thoughts and the comments
one or just shocking that you would say them
out loud, you know, whether you think them.
Are not right. It just to me. It's just shocking. That there
was no like governor in the brain or the mouth would be
like, wait, you know, even though these are my thoughts or
whatever, I shouldn't say these publicly
and to, it's just,
yeah, it's a bad. Look, it just
it's archaic to a degree. Some of the things. He said it lacks,
you know, the touch of
evolution and things that have been brought to our attention
here as men. The last 30, 40 years and, and of course, you
know, No,
all of those things going in it. Hey, I'm a guy, right.
I have a traditional marriage. My wife does cook and do all of
that stuff. Right? She cook. She's amazing. That way she's
a real,
you know housewife and does all those things.
But also, you know, I mean what I mean, keep quiet, she's
the boss of the house. She tells me what to do. She's got a great,
you know, social life and things. She does,
you know, as far as
hobbies and all those type of things and
you know, it's just
Say everybody's got their own
what they like out of
their girlfriend, their woman, their significant other, but
that cross the line of like, whoa, we're going back in time
here. And this doesn't even make sense. Somebody
made a great quote yesterday and I can't recall who it is.
I'd give them credit. But basically the gist of it was
it's on Cam Newtons, father for raising him. The way that he
did to think that this is normal, but at some point it's
on cam for not looking around exactly the same. Right, it's
not normal. Right? This is an acceptable. These aren't views.
You should be advocating that
women should know how to cook and they should know when to be
quiet when to let a man lead, right? That is not the world.
We currently live in men lead women lead relationships, come
in all various
forms, and shapes and sizes, and then hook women cook. There
is no bad men lead, women, lead men are quiet. Women are quiet.
It's driven by personality and Off-Broadway what. You're
Did to be if you choose to be quiet,
that's your prerogative choose to speak. That's your
prerogative. No one's expecting. You to be quiet
because you're female that feeds into.
And this came out in the letter
that was sent by the Attorneys General and it came out in
the report from The New York Times, the idea that women
who are in a business
setting, who are assertive, it gets Is frowned upon yeah,
Matt man decides, he's going to be type. A positive. Tell
everyone what to do. We're like, oh, yes, sir. Oh, that's
a take charge guy
woman, does it? Oh boy. Okay settle down there,
settle down there.
That's not the way it should be.
That's the view of the world that Cam Newton was pushing.
That's not the way it is. That's not the way it should be,
and that requires people
to think far differently than whatever they
believed it should be.
Back in the 60s, the 50s, exactly, these whatever, Ozzie
and Harriet, Leave it to Beaver, and his vision of
Americana that
I don't even know where the hell it came from. Like, in
what lab did they cook up the idea that this is the way that
people should be. It's just it's all here to me like house
post WWII,
like perfect family. Look
gotta create. Yeah, it is weird and it's a bad example and
Leadership from him to say that because you know, young young
men are impressionable that way they hear cam. And say those
type of things and they go well damn.
I need to find a woman like that or I need to tell my woman that
and that's where it's bad. He's not going to have a he's not
going to have a lot of young men with whom he can be
impressionable in a locker room. Not after yesterday,
because he already
was in a tough spot when it came to finding
an NFL roster spot.
If the Panthers were interested yesterday. I can't imagine them
being more interested today. They're not going to be more
interested than they were. Absolutely not more after that.
No, definitely not more, right. And you consider what's going
on in Carolina and this
brouhaha with the practice facility and David Tepper.
There's a lot of resentment of him and hey, look at the idea
is you're bringing in Cam Newton because you're going to
fill the stadium. You got some stuff to deal with. Now, if you
try to give Cam Newton a contract and and it's all
self-inflicted. It's all self inflicted. The Archie Bunker
stuff is all on him and I think a lot about All in the Family
and how wrong it was. And it was funny because
this guy, I was yeah so out of touch right the time right and
and you know as an impressionable kid in the 70s,
who watched that show when everyone watched that show
the message to me was that's not how you act.
This is you come off as an idiot. If these are the views,
you have right on how the world should operate, they turned him
into a guy who wasn't an authority figure.
He was a walking punch line and he wasn't aware of it. So
anyway, the whole thing.
Nothing know when I, when I saw the Tweet yesterday.
We were passing it around on the PFT text chain. And it's like,
when I saw the clip the quotes attached to it, I thought,
oh boy, here we go.
And when I washed it like again, at first, I'm thinking
this isn't as bad as I thought it was going to because I was
expecting it to be like really really bad and then it got
worse and worse. Yeah, at the end. He really really saved
the worst for last
and then it just kind of ends and
and and you know, I feel like there's more after the clip ends.
Ed's
and I kind of wanted to go find it but then I thought, you know
what, I really don't think. I want to hear any more of this
and it's not like anything. He says after the fact was going
to put it in context.
He said what he said.
I didn't need to listen anything more.
The words were out there.
It could have gotten worse. It could have gotten better.
I don't know. I just had no interest in hearing any more
from Cam Newton after hearing that
minute or so.
And
again, we'll see how open the door still is. I say it doesn't
That would be my mic bet with all the things you. You just
explain with Carolina,
the fact that they're trying to figure out the quarterback
situation. You got scammed Arnold. They're already they're
paying money to him. There's a chance here. We're going to see
them draft a quarterback as well.
That's where I look at it. And then you add on the fact of
yes, this and and other things that go along with it. I would
say that Cam Newton is not on the Carolina Panthers now and
ends up
being nowhere in the NFL when all said and done here after
this year, during this year.
I think it's as simple as.
If we're going to be mediocre too bad, we may as well be
mediocre too bad with some style. And let's have a guy
here that people want to come out and root for
and like you said, he'll smile.
He'll give a football to a kid in the end zone. If he scores
a touchdown. It makes the day at the park. Somewhat less
enjoyable if they're going to go home with an L.
Anyway, you may as well have fun
from moments of that four quarters, instead of having
Sam, Donald all due respect at quarterback. So, So,
you know and maybe maybe we'll see what happens in the draft.
Maybe they're thinking we draft somebody that's when the door
closes on KO, right, but all the more reason to draft
somebody
and close the door
on Cam Newton. Let's close the door on cam.