My take on Cam Newton

[Forty-Eight]

Nothing new that I haven’t heard

[ellis]

 Hey, I get it. I appreciate you reading it nonetheless.

[bigdavis]

12 minutes ago, Forty-Eight said:

Nothing new that I haven’t heard

As is your comment.

[pantherj]

 

[pantherj]

This just one of those wait and see situations. You wait until Cam is healthy enough to show what he can do, and make a decision from there. Cam won't be in a strong position to leave until he can show off his health, and at that point we can decide if we want to keep him. Just a waiting game at this point.

[Ivan The Awesome]

Interesting nugget about the injuries. I honestly thought his lisfranc injury came from someone chasing him and falling on his foot. 

[PghPanther]

NFL Pro players are like race horses in a stable...............owners use them to win races and when they are either too injured or too old to do that anymore they put them out to pasture............

Owners control the fate of players.........not the other way around.

Don't forget just because you are a fan of the sport and this team in particular........the bottom line isn't about that.

As often said in the Godfather........"It's nothing personal.......its just business"

[therealmjl]

Nice write up!

[Brooklyn 3.0]

Great article. Not very objective, but it's nice to see some solid writing skills and research presented to us instead of the usual garbage. And yes, I understand this was an opinion piece.

[ncstatekwi]

Very nice article and I tend to agree with you!

[raz]

the part where you wrote his shoulder should be completely healed, that was the part that struck me as hope and not reporting.  that was one giant leap into an area none of us have any idea of.   would be great if true, but its where you kinda jumped the shark

[ellis]

24 minutes ago, raz said:

 the part where you wrote his shoulder should be completely healed, that was the part that struck me as hope and not reporting.  that was one giant leap into an area none of us have any idea of.   would be great if true, but its where you kinda jumped the shark

“Should be fully mended”.
 

Given the fact that he’s only thrown a handful of passes over the last 11 months since surgery, coupled with his throwing motion and velocity at camp and in week one, I feel comfortable with that assessment. With that said, I made it a point not to speak in absolute terms about it. 

I respect your feedback on this. It’s not an invalid point your raise. The larger point was to help fans understand some of the realities behind his injuries, how and where they occurred on the field, and to clean up some narratives out there that might suggest his playing days are dwindling down. 

 

[ellis]

16 hours ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

Excellent article. 

Still when you said I played high school football all I could see was 

 

I have to admit, I’ve been laughing about this post for most of the morning.

[ellis]

I speak not as a fan, but as a football observer. There are so many possibilities with Cam, McCaffrey, DJ, Samuel. They were just scratching the surface early in 2018. And there were flashes of it in 2017, but that was before DJ arrived. And it was also CMC’s rookie year, he was still learning and growing at that point.

So, yes, subjectively I would like to see those guys together in the offense. I think it would be remarkably entertaining and prolific. And objectively, I think you could design some really great concepts around at all. But the foot has to heal. I totally get that. And, the OL must improve. I know some would argue that getting rid of Cam’s financial burden would allow for that. But there again, who’s your quarterback at that point?