Cam Newton update

[Jeremy Igo]

Well, it is officially a week that Cam Newton is not throwing today. That makes it a full week. 

He won't practice tomorrow because they will be doing walk throughs for the game and he isn't playing. 

Wednesday is Preseason game one.

No camp Thursday. 

Best case scenario is he throws on Friday. If not, we may be looking at two full weeks of not throwing in training camp. 

[thefuzz]

Been worried about this all offseason, hope he can get zoned in before the season starts.

 

Also guess this means lots of reps for Gilbert, maybe he can show another team something.

[Daeavorn]

So when does this become worrisome? 

[Jesse]

Just now, Daeavorn said:

So when does this become worrisome? 

The only time to be worried is if he comes back too soon and permanently injures his shoulder. 

[zacka77ack]

1 minute ago, Daeavorn said:

So when does this become worrisome? 

5 months ago when they waited to do surgery.

[Hogmolliesmaht]

I'm not worried. He will be ready when it counts and that's all that matters.

[Daeavorn]

Lets say Cam doesn't throw until after the season starts. How concerned are people about problems with the offense at that point?

[Nails]

3 minutes ago, zacka77ack said:

5 months ago when they waited to do surgery.

How about New Year's Day when they made the all time dumb decision to let him play.

[thefuzz]

8 minutes ago, Daeavorn said:

So when does this become worrisome? 

Was a while ago.  Cam needs the reps.  The WR's need reps with Cam throwing the ball.  CMC needs reps with Cam.

 

This is certainly not ideal, but the defense looks pretty good, so it may not cost us too much.

[Lemory]

It did seem like they were overworking his shoulder the first two days of camp. 

[dpm0409]

Of course you'd like to have him getting reps with the WR's (and CMC), but if it's a choice between him missing practices/preseason game(s) vs. coming back 100% too soon/missing regular season game(s), I'll take him sitting out practice all day.

[thefuzz]

Also, I know Cam is competitive, but maybe Ron has not told him not to chase down INT's unless we are in a playoff game, or a game we need to get into the playoffs.

Just not very smart long term to have your QB out there tackling, and taking on blocks.

[OldNorthPowell]

Starting to get worrying, but he has a few more weeks to get it right.  The chemistry between him and his receivers may be an issues though at the start of the season.

[Pantha-kun]

10 minutes ago, Daeavorn said:

Lets say Cam doesn't throw until after the season starts. How concerned are people about problems with the offense at that point?

Very. At this point, we know Cam's eventually going to recover from the surgery , but its mostly a matter of how much time he's missing to gell with his offense before the season starts. He can't just go into game 1 with hardly any practice time throwing to teammates, and especially new ones like McCaffrey and Samuel. The timing of throws and miscommunication  could fug us