Great Article, From A Texans Beat Writer, On Cam

[Ivan The Awesome]

Nolan Nawrocki was and still is a moron.

[MadHatter]

Interesting how the author said race became an issue when Warren Moon got involved.

[KendrickPanther]

Cam is unstoppable. If you stack the line to stop runs, he will put the bomb on you gor 20+ yards. If you drop a bunch of guys into coverage you will get gashed by Him, J-Stew, D-Will, Tolbert. Also, they will always have an LB spying him, so that's already one guy out of your defensive picture.

I like were your coming from but did you totally block out the Tennessee game? Many of us did.

[Beast_3000]

I was really concerned after that Tennesee game too, and yes quite frankly I blocked it out. The NFL is such a copy cat league I thought our offense would be stuffed for the rest of the year. Fortunately that wasn't in the plans :)

[ItsNotGonnaBeAlright]

I don't know. We pretty well beat ourselves in that Titans game as much as anything else. We made too many mistakes and Tennessee got to dictate the momentum of the game because of it. Their offense exploited every hole we had on defense, and our offense just shot itself in the foot over and over and over again.

That game alone could be used as the main reason for Amini Silatolu being a panther.

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

What an article with thorough responses to the evolution of opinion based on Cam's on field success.

I wonder if Joe Person will link it to the "Inside the Panthers" article in the next month or so.

[Mr Smiley]

Race became an issue when they compared him to that failure Jewalrus.

You deserver pie good sir

[Ivan The Awesome]

Race became an issue when they compared him to that failure Jewalrus.

You deserver pie good sir

I disagree, Warren Moon had a lot to do with the race issue. Most pundits were saying he was a one read then run QB. Then Moon came out and said it was mostly because of his skin color. Other than Nawrocki, not a lot of other analysts mentioned or even hinted that Cam's color had anything to do with his success in the NFL.

[Kyle82]

This is a great article.....thanks for sharing!!

Just looking around the net I can honestly say that I have never seen so many people wanting one man to fail so bad....I can't wait for Cam to shut'em up....again :)

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

I disagree, Warren Moon had a lot to do with the race issue. Most pundits were saying he was a one read then run QB. Then Moon came out and said it was mostly because of his skin color. Other than Nawrocki, not a lot of other analysts mentioned or even hinted that Cam's color had anything to do with his success in the NFL.

Dont be so dismissive of Moon's comments as "Race" did cause immediate knee jerk reactions of a lot of analysts. Moon was right.

Cam was only compared to Jarmarcus Russell, Akili Smith, Daunte Culpepper, Vince Young and other QBs of color.

A lot of analysts in addition to Norowocki said I question his desire-work ethic to get better?! (Mayock), he cannot understand a playbook(everyone) when he was never asked to understand pro-style termoniology.

While no one said he is going to be terrible bc he is black they wanted to limp him into all other failed balck QBs.

all Warren Moon was saying is that the attacks that were really agressive and vile may be racially motivated when in the same draft those analysts were singing the praises of a Gabbert. Who was in a simple spread offense, had two reads, had terrible footwork, performed only average. He was also called smart bc of the awesome wonderlic.

Im not one to jump on race but I thought it was quite a factor in Cam's assessment. Again, based on other black qbs and the unique offense he succeeded in.

[footballisasport]

http://www.caller.co...acy-cam-newton/

So this writer is basically saying that the whole "character issue", "playing ability" and whatever the talking heads in the media could find to use against Cam had nothing to do with his race. Race only became an issue once Warren Moon called the behavior of Narowski into question..REALLY????

I seriously shake my head at how much this society enjoy being in denial. Especially those in our media.

Please stop playing with my intelligence. Pushing a lie will never change the reality.

[teeray]

Fug Nawookie BTW

[tiger7_88]

Actually, the writer gets this...

Nolan Nawrocki’s scathing report on Cam Newton before the 2011 Draft was an appropriate piece at the time.

Exactly wrong.

Just because lots of OTHER people were wrong about the same thing doesn't all of a sudden make them right.

Newton's coaches and teammates on his JUCO National Championship team and the Auburn national championship team, to a man, said that he was the hardest worker on the team and a great leader.

The fact that Nawrocki, this writer, and tons of other "media" chose to ignore this and now want to cover their ass doesn't all of a sudden make them "right".

[Argus Plexus]

I like were your coming from but did you totally block out the Tennessee game? Many of us did.

I did