Humble Cam?

[Jacob]

I understand where he was headed with this (potential), though it's not going to come across that way nationally. Maybe he didn't quite articulate the point well enough. It's like a football equivalent to Louis CK's SNL monologue.

​Probably should have just have said nothing at all.

[Lumps]

The butthurt is strong in this thread.

[teeray]

Think thread title meant to say "Honest Cam!"

[teeray]

Love the "shouldn't he make his WRS better?" argument.

 

As if he didn't get Ted Ginn Jr a decent contract in Zona as he made him relevant, and helped rejuvenate Steve Smith's career.

[teeray]

The only guy close to Cam's attributes at QB that I can remember was Culpepper, and unfortunately we destroyed his knee

[Chaos]

Cam is one amazing athlete, and a better human. He's a better man than Tom fugging Brady.

[d-dave]

He can talk the talk, now he needs to walk the walk. Not that he hasn't been great for us, but it's time to get to the next level. Its time to destroy the league!

[SteveSmithTD89]

Cam is the most unique physical specimen top play QB. LeBron is not the most unique physical specimen to play basketball.

Just out of curiosity who would you say that is? Not disagreeing but my goodness LeBron is a freak. Being that big and that quick aren't exactly common physical features of all your NBA players.

[CatMan72]

He's right and he's gonna have a HOF career.

[PanthersUnited]

Well he has to speak the truth about himself, not like thr media is going to.

[PhillyB]

one on one?

[Mr. Scot]

You know that friend you occasionally have to elbow in the ribs to keep them from saying something they'd be better off keeping to themselves?

That's Newton.

Realistically, what he's attempting to say isn't truly bad.  It's not that different from the stuff Russell Wilson likes to say about himself, but Russell's honestly a little better at it.   

The way Cam wound up saying what he said it was rather clumsy, and the way it will be construed by many will be ouch-worthy.

Mind you, we've had worse (David Carr would have been wise to steer clear of the microphone on more than one occasion) but Newton does sadly have a talent for saying stuff that would probably be better left unsaid.

[B.BERSIN]

I agree with cam 100%...hell, I've been saying the same thing about him since 2011. ask yourself this question. name your top 5 quarterbacks currently in the NFL. most will come back with the usual suspects: brady, peyton, Rodgers, brees, etc. Now, ask yourself this...what came these quarterbacks do that Cam can't?...the answer is nothing. Now, what can CAM do that the top 5 can't ? in my opinion there's a lot. CAM has a unique skill set that no other QB has. If CAM ever self-actualizes, lookout.

Can Cam hit his receivers consistently with perfect pass?

 

[Mr. Scot]

Can Cam hit his receivers consistently with perfect pass?

No, but neither could Favre, Elway or Delhomme.  Favre and Elway both got rings and Jake came pretty close.

Newton is never going to be the kind of pinpoint accurate passer that guys like Brees and Rodgers are.  He'll always be one of the occasionally perfect, occasionally way off but mostly "general vicinity" guys like the ones mentioned above.

And that's okay, because history has shown us that those guys can win Super Bowls.

To be clear, the Panthers are well aware that Newton isn't a 'needle threader' and they're building around him accordingly.