Posted on 02/09/2016 6:34:13 PM PST by drewh
Former New York Jets quarterback Greg McElroy, best remembered for his out-of-nowhere criticism of the team's "corrupt" locker room chemistry after the 2011 season, unloaded Tuesday on a different target -- Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton.
McElroy, speaking on SiriusXM Radio, said Newton "quit" on his team for refusing to jump on his own fumble in the fourth quarter of the Panthers' 24-10 loss to the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl 50. McElroy, retired from football, is an analyst for the SEC Network.
"I have big issues with the way Cam handled himself not only on the field, but in the postgame as well," McElroy said. "If you're going to act like Superman and call yourself Superman, well, you better be able to answer the tough questions. He wasn't able to do so."
"What I have issues with is the way he did not jump on the fumble after he dropped the ball -- and I know he was getting beat up all game -- but he jumped away from the ball when the ball's on the ground. I have never, not one time in my life, seen a player do that, especially a quarterback. And you know what? His teammates will look at him a little different after that, especially his teammates on the defensive side of the football."
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The Broncos defense introduced Cam to grass and he thought it was marijuana.
That’s RACISSSSS !!!! /s
i didn’t watch. BIG jet fan and even i forgot this guy lol.
did Cam not try to get his own ball back?
Why didn’t get go after his own fumble? He just watched it roll away without trying.
Scuttlebutt among the unwashed masses on the West Coast is that the mob got to him before the game.
Just another arrogant a## much like kanye
It looked weird.
I mean a loose ball in the NFL typically means everybody with a banzai head first plunge at it.
Cammy did a quick application of the brakes
Super Bowel. Game was one big train wreck of embarrassing mistakes.
He didn’t want to get hurt and end up with concussion?
Yes, he stopped himself from diving on the ball. I believe that the Bronco defense got him scared early on and it affected his throws, his timing and was all punctuated with the beating they put on him. Did he quit, no. He was in a scared position that he was not accustom to playing in and his lack of experience got the best of him.
I think Cam had a little too much Von Miller and Demarcus Ware along with a couple more LBs.
Could be. The Denver Mob, led by Von Miller, got to him all game long. It’s on video.
He’s playing the wrong damn sport then.
Fight to win or stay home.
Was glad he got his arrogant ass kicked and embarssed himself at the press conference.
ok. that makes sense.
but you know what Marino, Montana, Brady, Wilson..they jump on the ball in that same scenario
It went beyond “not try to get his own ball back”
He ran away from it.
Cam is going to be another flash-in-the-pan like Kaepernick.
It was almost as if the ball was a giant dog poop.
Looked like he was afraid he might break a nail.
rofl!!!
i’m gonna have to look for myself i gues.
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