Cam Newton plans to have foot surgery

[CBDellinger]

If it were up to me... I'm trading Cam for as many picks as I can get and using that capital to move up in the draft and get a QB.

Dont Kemba Walker this situation.  Get what you can, while you can and build from there.

[TheRumGone]

Just now, Jeremy Igo said:

I'd be shocked if the end of the Newton era wasn't  in September.

I think if we don’t draft a qb round 1 they will bring him back to see where he is health wise. That’s also if he wants to play without another deal. Like I said. A ton of variables.

[SpeedOFLight]

4 minutes ago, raz said:

none of us know what the dr said.  we only know what was said after he went to the dr.   the dr can't come out and say 'actually i think surgery is his best option, but not the only possible one'       if he's decided to get surgery then its pretty much guaranteed that's what the dr said.   

Not to trying to start anything but you just said that none of us know what the doctor said then you come back with “it’s pretty much guaranteed that’s what the dr said”

[Forty-Eight]

Cam makes some stupid decisions like this. Trade him away

[TheRumGone]

2 minutes ago, CBDellinger said:

If it were up to me... I'm trading Cam for as many picks as I can get and using that capital to move up in the draft and get a QB.

Dont Kemba Walker this situation.  Get what you can, while you can and build from there.

Teams won’t get a lot for Cam coming off surgery with two years of being IR’ed. 
 

I think the draft is going to tell us a lot

[kungfoodude]

3 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

I'd be shocked if the end of the Newton era wasn't  in September.

Via trade or release or injury?

[mav1234]

With Rivera gone, I think the likelihood of Cam playing on a one year deal diminishes substantially.

[ickmule]

8 minutes ago, uncfan888 said:

Says the huddle know it all

It’s good you finally came to terms with this.  

[SgtJoo]

Per source, Cam Newton will have a “relatively simple” procedure on Lisfranc area in his left foot. That could bode well for a shorter recovery time. @tiffblackmon was first to report the surgery - which, in the very beginning of all of this, Newton had hoped to avoid.

 

Per Jourdan 

[Lucian]

6 minutes ago, TheRumGone said:

The only way we find the next true franchise is by drafting him this upcoming draft. I’m not sure if that’s going to be possible where we draft. There isn’t someone out there we can sign to be that guy. 
 

if panthers draft a qb round one. It’s the end of the Newton era.

Since we are rebuilding. I wouldnt mind trading one of our players for a pick or as a package to be able to move up and get burrow.

[tiger7_88]

1 hour ago, SetfreexX said:

It's media outlets, and casuals that feed that narrative of have the surgery immediately even if medical PROFESSIONALS are advising this has the opportunity to heal on it's own, and that surgery is the last resort to repair the injury. 

Being the recipient of multiple invasive back (cervical and lumbar) and elbow surgeries, I can give those who have never had an invasive surgery performed on them this piece of advice:

It sucks.

IT SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS.

(Again, I'm referring to invasive surgery where they open you up, dig in, look around, scrape, snip, and remove.  I've never experienced arthroscopic surgery and can't comment on that.)

Every time I had to go step by step and through other treatments (medications, shots, physical therapy) trying to heal the condition prior to considering surgery.  Unfortunately, each time the condition continued to deteriorate, ultimately requiring the surgery anyway.

But my experience with surgery is this: It sucks.  And if I don't have to have it done, I won't have it done.  Why?  Because it fugging sucks.

[uncfan888]

10 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

No clue. That is why we have the greatest college scout in a generation as GM.

Haha ugh

[thefuzz]

6 minutes ago, Jeremy Igo said:

I'd be shocked if the end of the Newton era wasn't  in September.

Same.

Cam has played this perfectly to secure his pass out of Charlotte.  If he really wanted to play here next season, he was his own worst enemy by putting off surgery.

Unfortunately, this team completely mismanaged a truly special player.

[Mr. Scot]

I'm curious whether there's anybody here that would actually blame Newton for not wanting to play on the one year deal.

If you believe somebody else will offer you better, why not pursue that?