Look at '11-'12 Rivers to know Newton will be fine; he is just shell-shocked

[Kevin Greene]

4-5 in the playoffs isn't exactly something to boast loudly about.

 

 

Meh, he's beaten Peyton Manning twice in the Playoffs and if Nate Kaeding could make a fricking field in the Post Season his record would be better. 

[Mr. Scot]

4-5 in the playoffs isn't exactly something to boast loudly about.

 

To be fair, it beats 0-1

 

[teeray]

I am not worried about Newton. He has proven that with average supporting cast he can be exceptional. He is in a slump, and o line is killing us/him.

We need néw offensive coaches to progress his development as well. Need new set of eyes and better philosophy.

Cam is not playing well, but he will be fine. He has proven it already

[Mage]

In Phillip Rivers' "terrible years" of 2011 and 2012 he put up passer ratings of 88.7 and 88.6.

 

Cam Newton's BEST season has been 88.8.

 

Phillip Rivers passed for over 4600 yards in his "terrible" 2011 season...in Cam's "magical" season of 2011, he passed for 4000.

 

Meanwhile, Rivers has topped 100 in NFL passer rating 5 times in the last 7 years and led the entire NFL in passing in just his 3rd season as a starter.

 

Good job on missing the point entirely.

[Silent Majority]

To be fair, it beats 0-1

Fair in what sense? All things are not equal.

[Mage]

The entire point wasn't to compare River and Newton as far as their QB skills go.  Philip Rivers is clearly the better QB.

 

The point is we saw how much Rivers declined compared to his usual self due to offensive line play in a scheme that is dependent on the offensive line playing well, not to mention Rivers had equally poor receivers too.  If a veteran like Rivers can fall off for those reasons (and yes, his fall off is still better than most QBs... that is why he is a top five QB), then of course a young QB in an even worse situation will.  And once you put the right guys back around Rivers, he went back to playing like his usual 100 QB Rating self.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

I am not worried about Newton. He has proven that with average supporting cast he can be exceptional. He is in a slump, and o line is killing us/him.

We need néw offensive coaches to progress his development as well. Need new set of eyes and better philosophy.

Cam is not playing well, but he will be fine. He has proven it already

 

he can hit those touch passes and throws a beautiful ball when he gets time

 

the outrage and gnashing of teeth over our slow ass receiver corps and the turnstiles we have at OT is going to look like a youth group mixer if cam winds up leaving carolina.

[cbully]

david carr was shell shocked once...