NFL Off-Season

Now I feel like I’m ready to come out of my shell. I know I have the talent to change this game, and I don’t see no ceiling. So I’m not knocking on the door, like tap-tap-tap. I’m gonna kick that door in, like SWAT.

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Cam Newton about false perceptions coming out of college and how he’s ready to take over via ESPN

It’s a great read on Cam and I suggest all fans of football go and read it.

Cam touches on a lot of subjects but it seems like his main focus in the NFL, outside of the obvious which is winning, is to change the perception of the black quarterback.

He feels as if many analysts and critics were harsh on him not just because he was a black quarterback, but because of the many failures of the black quarterbacks that came before him. Newton via ESPN:

“I blame JaMarcus Russell and to some degree Vince Young. If you have the opportunity to make that kind of money doing something you love to do, why would you screw it up? I’m trying to be a trailblazer. If Baylor’s Robert Griffin decides to come out, I want people to say ‘He can be the next Cam Newton’ instead of ‘He’s gonna be the next JaMarcus Russell.’”

”I had people who can’t throw a football telling me my mechanics were wrong,” says Newton. “I had people taking shots at my character, classifying me as a thug, as a hoodlum. After Week 3 or 4, all these same people wanted an interview. I said, ‘You were giving me all this crap and had so much to say about how I was gonna play, and now you wanna talk? No. Just sit back and watch the show, man.’”

And what a show it’s been so far.

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“As far as I’m concerned, he’ll be the last quarterback we ever draft high in my lifetime. He is a very unusual young man, and I say that in a highly complimentary way. He does not complain. Ever. He’s never in the trainers room. You watch him get hit out there and you think, ‘He got to be hurting,’ and then you see he’s never with the trainers. The way he has adapted to our team and to the NFL has been tremendous. We couldn’t be happier.”

- Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson on QB Cam Newton

(Source: espnmediazone3.com)

The player I am most interested in watching week two is Cam Newton. He had a pretty fantastic debut week one but it was against an Arizona defense that I know nothing about. The only thing I know about Arizona is that all the defensive names that I am familiar with from the last few years have moved on to big paydays on other teams.

This week Cam goes against Dom Capers Green Bay defense. The Pack have had off for over a week and Capers has had plenty of time to game plan for Newton. How Cam Newton fares this weekend will go a long way towards solidifying my view of him.

Cam Newton: The Natural.

(Source: ballsandlipgloss)

Cam Newton in his NFL debut:

24-37, 422 yds
2 TDs, 1 INT
8 Rush, 18 yds, 1 TD

That would be more yards than Brees, Rivers, Rodgers, Ryan or whoever else you want to name. Wowzas!!!

(Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

“Sure I’ll throw you the football, kid…in exchange for a donation to my father’s church. Cash only. Leave the envelope behind the monkey bars.”

Hollywood as hell.

(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Cam Newton working out with Chris Weinke »

Remember how well it worked out the last time Carolina drafted a Heisman-winning quarterback? Get excited, Panther fans! And get even more excited next month, when Cam Newton starts private workouts with Gino Torretta.

With the 1st overall pick of the 2011 NFL Draft, the Carolina Panthers have selected QB Cameron Jerrell Newton to lead their team into the future.

Cam Fig Newton. Will he go #1?

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SI’s annual draft preview.

Just keep pretending that everything is going to be fine.

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