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Panthers cut QB Cam Newton

Vin_Cuccs : 3/24/2020 10:46 am
He is a free agent.
Patriots?  
Andy in Boston : 3/24/2020 10:48 am : link
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Given the fact that teams can't work him out and see if he's healthy,  
Anakim : 3/24/2020 10:49 am : link
I'd imagine he won't be signing anytime soon
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Anakim : 3/24/2020 10:53 am : link
Ian Rapoport
@RapSheet
The #Panthers tried to send Cam Newton to the #Bears and #Chargers. They found no takers and at this point, no starting jobs available. Release was the only option. Carolina has just $2M in dead money with this release, but Cam is now free.
Gee, I thought that they already cut him  
ZogZerg : 3/24/2020 11:07 am : link
..
Interested in knowing what the Chargers  
rasbutant : 3/24/2020 11:11 am : link
plan is.
I would want no part of a  
Coach Red Beaulieu : 3/24/2020 11:16 am : link
Mobile one read QB who is no longer mobile and wears garish clown suits and an ascot.

Especially about the clown suit and ascot part.
Remember when he won the MVP and was the next big thing?  
BestFeature : 3/24/2020 11:17 am : link
I wonder if the same will happen to Lamar Jackson. He's, even more, an injury waiting to happen.
When you know a guy is available  
jvm52106 : 3/24/2020 11:22 am : link
and his price tag currently (current contract) isn't what you want to take on, you pass on a trade and you hope for him to be released.
I would think Jackson  
Gman11 : 3/24/2020 11:26 am : link
is more like Robert Griffin the Turd than Newton. Newton is bigger.
Just going to leave this here  
Diver_Down : 3/24/2020 11:42 am : link
RE: Just going to leave this here  
Rjanyg : 3/24/2020 11:53 am : link
In comment 14848154 Diver_Down said:
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What a wimp. Biggest game of his career and he is making business decisions in front of the whole world.

I honestly never liked him and this sealed it for me.
RE: Patriots?  
Victor in CT : 3/24/2020 12:34 pm : link
In comment 14848036 Andy in Boston said:
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Would not surprise me
RE: I would want no part of a  
Dave : 3/24/2020 12:50 pm : link
In comment 14848095 Coach Red Beaulieu said:
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Mobile one read QB who is no longer mobile and wears garish clown suits and an ascot.

Especially about the clown suit and ascot part.


+1
Thats the problem with Running QBs  
Chip : 3/24/2020 12:52 pm : link
They don't last like the Mannings, Brady Rivers Rothlisberger and others.
This is a crazy offseason  
Bramton1 : 3/24/2020 12:53 pm : link
And I mean this before coronavirus. Philip Rivers, Tom Brady, and now Cam Newton.
I would have cut Cam  
RobCrossRiver56 : 3/24/2020 1:03 pm : link
15 min after the Super Bowl after seeing that play
Why does anyone think this guy can still play?  
sb from NYT Forum : 3/24/2020 1:04 pm : link
He's been below average since the SB and last season he couldn't throw it even 10 yards with any accuracy.

He is absolutely cooked.
Cam was done a while ago...  
EricJ : 3/24/2020 1:36 pm : link
and despite his athletic abilities... his head never seemed to be screwed on the way it should for the QB position.
Is Cam still doing things we've never  
LawrenceTaylor56 : 3/24/2020 1:37 pm : link
seen before?
RE: Remember when he won the MVP and was the next big thing?  
LauderdaleMatty : 3/24/2020 1:48 pm : link
In comment 14848097 BestFeature said:
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I wonder if the same will happen to Lamar Jackson. He's, even more, an injury waiting to happen.


Jackson seems a lot ess of a clown and a more willing to keep working at being a QB. The issue is that IMO I don’t care how gifted you are, thst style of QB just isn’t sustainable I the NFL. Getting by on athleticism as a kid in college for few years is much easier than trying to do it into your late 20s when your body isnt as forgiving.

Jackson needs to become Rodgers not Cam. Can he is the question
We're very fortunate Eli had the career he did.  
bceagle05 : 3/24/2020 1:55 pm : link
Early on, many thought Luck and Cam would be the faces of the league for years.
I've heard a lot of teams are concerned  
JonC : 3/24/2020 1:57 pm : link
about his ability to still play at a high level, especially because accuracy was always a problem and now he doesn't look the same after the shoulder. But, I think he gets another shot.
RE: I would want no part of a  
Alan in Toledo : 3/24/2020 3:09 pm : link
In comment 14848095 Coach Red Beaulieu said:
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Mobile one read QB who is no longer mobile and wears garish clown suits and an ascot.

Especially about the clown suit and ascot part.


And, to top it off, he's a braggart.
RE: I would want no part of a  
eric2425ny : 3/24/2020 5:07 pm : link
In comment 14848095 Coach Red Beaulieu said:
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Mobile one read QB who is no longer mobile and wears garish clown suits and an ascot.

Especially about the clown suit and ascot part.


Ha ha, spot on.
After Rhule said he was looking forward to working with him?  
LBH15 : 3/24/2020 5:09 pm : link
Messy situation down there in Carolina.
RE: I've heard a lot of teams are concerned  
LauderdaleMatty : 3/24/2020 7:43 pm : link
In comment 14848363 JonC said:
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about his ability to still play at a high level, especially because accuracy was always a problem and now he doesn't look the same after the shoulder. But, I think he gets another shot.


He’ll get another shot but I think those concerns are very valid. His whole game was based on his athleticism. That’s been compromised.
RE: I've heard a lot of teams are concerned  
LauderdaleMatty : 3/24/2020 7:51 pm : link
In comment 14848363 JonC said:
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about his ability to still play at a high level, especially because accuracy was always a problem and now he doesn't look the same after the shoulder. But, I think he gets another shot.


He’ll get another shot but I think those concerns are very valid. His whole game was based on his athleticism. That’s been compromised.
RE: After Rhule said he was looking forward to working with him?  
FatMan in Charlotte : 3/24/2020 8:06 pm : link
In comment 14848695 LBH15 said:
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Messy situation down there in Carolina.


You really seemed to latch onto this, huh?

The way the Newton situation has been handled has been roundly panned here. Even by long-time beats who rarely diss the team.

Scott Fowler, the beat reporter that is closest to the team had an excellent article about it. Here's an excerpt:
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Meanwhile, if you are keeping score at home, that makes three Panthers icons to have left the team in the past two months. And only one of those three departures went smoothly. Could no one from the Panthers organization get these guys on the same page?

While the decision to part ways with Newton makes football sense — Bridgewater is 3 1/2 years younger, not as banged up and went 5-0 as a starter for New Orleans in 2019 — the team sure could have handled this better.

Let’s review: While Luke Kuechly’s videotaped retirement went fine, tight end Greg Olsen later insisted that what the Panthers called a “mutual” parting of the ways in late January was, in fact, not mutual at all.

And now we have Newton — prideful, volatile, charismatic and obviously angry with the way it has ended under a head coach in Matt Rhule, who clearly has decided to do a deep cleaning of the Panthers’ roster.

Newton’s social-media response Tuesday to the Panthers’ announcement that he can seek a trade is worth printing in full.

“STOP WITH THE WORD PLAY!!” he wrote in his signature font. “ i never asked for it!! THERE IS NO DODGING THIS ONE; i love the @panthers TO DEATH AND WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU GUYS!! PLEASE DO NOT TRY AND PLAY ME, or MANIPULATE THE NARRATIVE AND ACT LIKE I WANTED THIS; you forced me into this!!”

Video by NFL

Olsen replied to Newton’s diatribe on social media with two words: “Sounds familiar.” It’s not a good look for Rhule, owner David Tepper or general manager Marty Hurney to have both Newton and Olsen disputing the facts of their respective breakups.

To some extent, even this mess could be predicted.


The full article is linked.

The most ironic thing about your response is for a recent poster, you've railed on Gettleman for things he's said and doing something different, and how that's bad. But apparently not here.

A couple more pithy responses, and you'll expose yourself as the reincarnation of a really insufferable poster.
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I guess Rhule isn’t getting the Gettleman treatment?  
Sean : 3/24/2020 8:16 pm : link
What’s the difference in what they are doing?
What does Gettleman have to do with  
LBH15 : 3/25/2020 7:31 am : link
anything here? Not following your logic.
RE: What does Gettleman have to do with  
Sean : 3/25/2020 7:34 am : link
In comment 14848998 LBH15 said:
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anything here? Not following your logic.


Gettleman was heavily criticized for moving on from veteran Panther players when he was the GM there.
Article says it all  
LBH15 : 3/25/2020 7:38 am : link
They made the right decisions on the football field. And they had to cut the cord. What a mess because some turn to Twitter.
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