Too weird.
Posted on 09/02/2021 5:15:02 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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a man wearing a helmet: Mitchell Leff/Getty Images© Provided by The Big Lead Mitchell Leff/Getty Images Cam Newton was somewhat surprisingly released by the New England Patriots earlier this week as Bill Belichick has found a new chosen one in Mac Jones. Newton, a former MVP who the organization thought enough of to give a try replacing the legendary Tom Brady, is now a man without a team. Which isn't crazy right now but will get increasingly more crazy as time passes because, for all his faults, he's capable of winning NFL games as a starter — still a rare commodity in an uneven NFL.
With the Dallas Cowboys signing Will Grier to compete for the backup role, the landing spots are drying up for Newton. Appearing on NFL Network this afternoon, Ian Rapoport wondered if it's time to start asking if Newton gets a job instead of when.
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Naw, it’s some new-fangled gravitational internal combustion engine.
I’ve been saying for years Cam should start his own clothing company. He seems to like that better than football.
Cam was a hybrid. A mix of a pocket passer and a scrambler. Like you said, Broncos defense destroyed him. That’s football. As a QB, you have to be a pocket passer to survive in the league. You might win a game or two as a mobile QB. But they will hit you hard. And all it takes is one hit. And you’re out.
He was a big, slightly above average QB. Over the years, the Panthers organization took away his help and relied more and more on his size and had him run the ball. He started getting hurt. He is now damaged goods. I don’t think he is Kapernick material and would probably be a good back-up for some team.
Too weird.
He was a huge quarterback, and talented at running, but I could never figure out how he made it in the NFL throwing.
Every time I saw him throw, he never looked like he could read a defense, he seemed inaccurate, and had what I saw as a huge windup.
Reminded me of Tim Tebow. But...dang, he made passes. It always puzzled me.
I despised his showboating and taunting, though. Never liked it.
I asked Fred Lynn one time why Neon Deion didn’t taunt while playing baseball like he did in football and he said in baseball he’d have gotten a 90 mph fastball in his ear.
Let me guess, he’s yelling?...
“Down low negro”?
Freddie Lynn...that was a player. Indeed!
When he played for the Angels I’d see him blasting down the road here in his Porsche. He’s definitely lucky that he never got in a wreck.
Deion Sanders was a talented athlete and it was obvious that he loved football more than baseball. But imagine if he gave up football for baseball. He would had a long career in baseball. Maybe more like Rickey Henderson.
That one play branded him. In a game like that, with everything on the line...you stick your arms in that pile.
That is how many will forever remember Cam Newton, if they remember him at all.
Until the stepback I was a Cam Newton fan, he was the reason Auburn won their National Championship. And I really liked how after a TD he’s give the football to a kid in the stands in the NFL. But as someone posted, he doesn’t have the heart.
The only reason I watched any NFL games last year was to see Brady. Again as with Cam, the only reason the Bucs won was because of Brady. Total BS the NFL awarded Rogers the MVP over Brady. Only NFL game I expect to watch is Bucs at Patriots, unless Brady does another superbowl run.
I like that Cam does that kind of thing with the ball...although, I admit there is a jaded part of me that wonders if he does that only for the positive PR. I guess it should be enough that he does it, because he sure makes the person happy.
The year before last, I was watching unenthusiastically due to all the social justice crap, and then last year, didn’t watch at all. (from someone who fanatically watched the sport since the 1972 season...every week...read all the papers, then Internet stuff when that got big)
Pisses me off that the Left has managed to wrest it from my areas of interest. My best friend still watches, and I watched a few weeks ago with him when I was visiting him in another state, but...I wasn’t into the sport, just talking to him and his wife (which probably irritated him)
LOL uggh...
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