Cam Newton, social media, tell me how these randoms keep
getting jobs. Don't worry about it.
I'ma show you, he's gonna throw at the Auburn
pro day on Tuesday and he said, on social media
832, mother bleep better than me.
He's been saying that for a year. Now. Remember he did that
interview with, yeah, pivot right podcast and they've
really came after yeah. Chanting crowd order, right?
I mean I was
I mean he was he was telling it like he needed to tell it like
you're not the guy you used to be, is he better than any of
the current starting quarterbacks in the NFL?
No, no. Right now. I mean, I can't say that he'd have to
prove it to me. And I mean listen, I don't like I'm not
sitting here proud to say that
this guy's a legend
little Legend. I'm didn't done anything to have Cam Newton's
career. He's the man, definitely but he's done
nothing to prove or show us that he's one of the 32.
Just the last two or three opportunities, we've got to see
them play quarterback in the NFL, I'm sorry. That's just
the, the fact of the matter, what we saw
his last little,
you know, run there with the Carolina Panthers and Matt rule,
it wasn't very good there,
you know. And then of course, what we saw at the end of New
England, you know, had issues both on and off the field
a little bit there. So, you know, that's where I would say. No,
he's got to prove himself to me, and get out there and play.
Play and show himself in the preseason game to say, you
know, those type of comments, at least the least in my world.
Well, the off-field issue, the only thing I remember is he got
stung With A covid Pas, the culprits of, right? Well yeah
member and then he left and then he did a lab test myself.
And remember all that those Shenanigans, he decided to take
the league
rules in the covid, you know, bylaws into his own hands, and
he was going to change the whole system.
It really is odd to think a guy who was the MVP of the NFL, in
2015, grand scheme of things that's not that long ago and
quarterback should be playing deep into the 30s. But
the reality is when you take the kind of physical pounding the
Cam Newton has endured and your physical skills. Begin to
diminish. Can you morph into nothing but pocket passer. This
is why there's a challenge for the mobile quarterbacks and all
right good quarterbacks in today's NFL most of the best
quarterbacks have Mobility to enhance their game.
They The play behind the line of scrimmage, they take off
when they have to, they make chicken salad, when the play
that's called goes to chicken
fat. And the the the challenge is to transform your game.
I think of Steve Young and Steve McNair transform, your grand
old Cunningham Ward pocket passer
resist the temptation to run the ball. Perfect example,
helps to have Randy Moss for you can just throw it as far as
you can and you know he's going to go get it but still Randall
Cunningham, resurrected his career. Here as not a mobile
guy, you need to transition to a guy
who does and it's a Temptation.
When you have two choices, one is I can throw the ball
and you know a couple of bad things can happen
or I can just run it with the confidence that I can run past
these guys. I'm faster than these guys. They can't catch
me. They can't bring me down.
I'm 65. I'm a statue. Come to life. They can't tackle me.
That's kind of the Cam Newton.
To
go line play all those reps, pushing him into the end zone
at a certain point. It takes a toll on your body. And that's
that's why
if you rely upon physicality agility speed in your 20s. If
you want to play quarterback into your 30s, deep into your
30s. It's got to be a transition at some point to
a Tom Brady type of a guy who just gets the ball and throws
it gets the ball and throws. It gets the ball and throws. Yeah,
you got to make that adjustment to wear. Are, you know you're
explaining it right? Your legs are not going to get you,
you know, out of trouble every time or make a play. You got to
start to play the position a little bit from within
the pocket, and make throws and good decisions and do all of
that, right? We're seeing,
hey, Lamar Jackson's making that transition in front of us.
It is, but they know legs guys who can run like that. Yeah,
it's a gift and a curse.
Steve Young Randall, Cunningham, whatever. Hey,
the first guys, not open my whole life. I've been able to go.
Wait the first guys, I do. Let me just tuck it under and I'll
go run for 30 yards when the first guy is not wide open,
you know, and that's awesome. But there becomes a point in
life, where you now can't tuck it and run around the edge or
30 yards, any longer you have to do it a different way. Going
to make that adjustment. We're seeing Russell Wilson
and profit in the process of making that adjustment, that
he's got to play the game, a little differently than he did.
Two, three, four years ago. He can't move around and buy
himself time or
oh, I don't like the way that looked. Even though it's kind
of tight, I might be able to fit in there. Let me buy some
more time with my legs to see something more clearly.
No, life's going to change that way. And yeah,
that's where it'll Cam Newton.
It hasn't shown the ability maybe to make that full
adjustment there and I will say to maybe hasn't been in
the greatest position to show us that.
But yeah, first step is have a good pro day at the Auburn Pro
Day, throw the ball. Well, you know, show teams that you're
still going working,
try to get somewhere.
Be the backup quarterback
show. Oh us all.
You know what you're
made of as far as preseason
and then we can get back into the conversation of,
you know, hopefully you're starting quarterback or
something like that. But as of right now, I don't think
anybody's going to believe the Cam. Newton's, one of the best
32 as it stands here in 2023.
And this is where Cam Newton being a superstar works against
him. It worked against Mike, Vick it worked against Colin
Kaepernick to a certain extent huh? You don't just show up and
be a backup and be content to be a backup. Now, Mike Vick
eventually was able to pull
it off but the challenge was you needed to have a starter
who was Secure in his position because all those guys in
the locker room grew up idolizing Mike Vick. Now we're at a point
where guys in the locker room grew up idolizing who
Cam Newton and that was one of the realities. Look, he got
thrown overboard by the Patriots. 2021,
once they decided to go with Mack Jones, why we can't have
a Schism? We can't have a leadership question. Who's
really in charge of this team? Is it cam?
Or is it Mac Devin McCourty
recently retired by the Patriots?
Said,
not that long ago, very recently that Bailey's a pea
and Mac Jones. There was a bit of a Schism in the locker room
last year. You don't want that,
you don't want the backup to be the Pied, Piper that's leading
the team and undermining the starter and
Camp, no matter what he does. Once he gets there,
just his mere presence.
That's what's working against him because I thought he was
good enough to be on a depth charge. Sure. But number one,
he's not content to be on a depth chart and number Or to
his mere presence
is a threat to the overall chemistry of the locker room
because guys will want him to be the starter over
unless he's the backup to Patrick Mahomes
or Josh Allen or Joe burrow or jail and hurt. You know,
a clear-cut franchise guy that he's not going to be deterred
or
shaken at all. Other than that, you got Cam Newton breathing
down your neck. Yeah, it's going to Rattle you a little
bit. If you're the start, he's a big personality. You're
right. He's a polarizing. Figure, you know, even if he's
not playing great people, in the
media, want to go talk to Cam Newton,
he's an incredible natural leader.
You know. That's, that's you know what,
what I mean, we knew that in Carolina is the thing you heard
about in New England, more than anything, you know, Cam Newton,
walked in that building and had had the locker room eating out
of his hand, right? All right away. They
loved him. And that you're right, there's that affect their.
And also I think the effect to of, hey, that's going to scare
teams and then to, you know, is he a backup quarterback? I mean
by that is like
there's times where
you know, Cam Newton I think is a guy that needs reps. I don't
know if he's necessarily always the best guy to be like, hey,
you haven't done anything in six or seven weeks now come in
and be on Rhythm and throw the ball. Perfect.
You know, he's one that has always struck me as he needs
reps. He needs to stay in Rhythm or at least get that
Rhythm, you know, before he hits the ground running. So
we'll see, I'll be interested to see what happens. I think.
Eventually somebody will bring him in here but I don't know if
it's going to be anything quick. It
might be one of those training camp type of things, evaluate
our roster, see where our quarterback position is. We
don't feel that comfortable with it. We need a guy that's
played a little bit and won't be
a deer in the headlights
if our starter gets hurt. That's where I think teams
might, you know, kick-the-can a little bit on Cam Newton
See, I think the ship has sailed in my day at all in
2022. Yeah, it's over and my base is his last gasp to try to
get back in. I think, I just think it's, it's, it's done.
The league has moved on. He's 33. Now,
there aren't that many quarterbacks older than him
in the NFL even though 33 seems young and we've seen Tom Brady,
take it to 45. Yeah but this isn't the same backs in the NFL
right now are under 30 and
when and
I look II hope he gets a chance but you know the reality is we
say this The time
I hope the guy gets a chance. Well, if he gets one, if he
gets a job, he's going to take away somebody else's job. You
got a bunch of guys coming out in the draft who are trying to
get these spots. You've got other guys who have been
grinding and grinding
in anonymity trying to hold on to their spots on the depth
chart Cam Newton's trying to take a spot that somebody else
already has
it's not going to be a starting spot, his best hope is a backup
spot and I think a lot of it comes down to his willingness
to submit to the fact that he'll be
the number two and refocus
his Personality on providing support to the starter.
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