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[Who Dat Pat]

I think the guy that started this thread is praying, and possibly wrote the article under a pen name. But then again, if anyone knows about NFL slumps, it would be a saints fan.

Strange, I read a sports related article, yet you saw a prayer? Written under a pen name? Was this the Gospel of Duane?

[Harris Aballah]

Strange, I read a sports related article, yet you saw a prayer? Written under a pen name? Was this the Gospel of Duane?

I don't know the pick up lines of your boyfriend if that's what you're asking.

[MechaZain]

"I don’t believe Cam Newton will have a sophomore slump, I think Newton was a rookie fluke but only time will tell if he is the next Michael Vick or the next Vince Young. However it turns out, Cam Newton can rest assured that at the very least, Andy Reid has probably taken notice."

http://www.duanescorner.com/

What does this even mean?

"I THINK HIS ROOKIE YEAR WAS A FLUKE BUT HE WILL DO IT AGAIN."

[Who Dat Pat]

What does this even mean?

"I THINK HIS ROOKIE YEAR WAS A FLUKE BUT HE WILL DO IT AGAIN."

He is saying he believes Cam will not have a slump because last year was a fluke, which he later explains all his great play was first half the season due to lockout and defenses not prepared. Bottom line, Cam is really the average guy from second half the season and next year he will continue the average.

So the slump will not really be a slump because he was never that good to begin with, he just had a fluke first half of the season.

[I Registered To Post This]

He is saying he believes Cam will not have a slump because last year was a fluke, which he later explains all his great play was first half the season due to lockout and defenses not prepared. Bottom line, Cam is really the average guy from second half the season and next year he will continue the average.

So the slump will not really be a slump because he was never that good to begin with, he just had a fluke first half of the season.

several people have written paper bricks explaining why this thinking is incorrect and this sentiment is inaccurate in this thread. the gaudy stats went away because the offensive approach changed and became more efficient. oddly it was the option stuff that teams weren't able to stop as they had started playing coverage because defensive coordinators realized that cam was a threat to pass and they couldn't really load up against the run anymore.

he's looking at a stat sheet and not watching the games. i don't expect him or you to ditch your saints homerhood but it's pretty obvious.

[Who Dat Pat]

several people have written paper bricks explaining why this thinking is incorrect and this sentiment is inaccurate in this thread. the gaudy stats went away because the offensive approach changed and became more efficient. oddly it was the option stuff that teams weren't able to stop as they started playing coverage because defensive coordinators realized that cam was a threat to pass and couldn't load up against the run anymore.

he's looking at a stat sheet and not watching the games. i don't expect him or you to ditch your saints homerhood but it's pretty obvious.

First off, I was just responding to the reading comprehension question asked. Secondly, go back two his late March articles if you think the guy is a Saints fan or even pro Saints.

[I Registered To Post This]

First off, I was just responding to the reading comprehension question asked. Secondly, go back two his late March articles if you think the guy is a Saints fan or even pro Saints.

well i take it back if he's in fact not a saints fan. it doesn't matter though because his post is not accurate and his reasoning is flawed.

you also aligned yourself with him in your original post so responding to you is fair game:

Article basically makes the same point I did, almost no wins, all wins against inferior opponents, best numbers at begining of season when defenses where weak from no offseason.

[Harris Aballah]

So, Cam in a slump must still be better than most qb's best.

[I Registered To Post This]

So, Cam in a slump must still be better than most qb's best.

the post isn't arguing that cam will "slump" so much as it's arguing that he's in fact average.

i can buy the sophomore slump angle because it's been documented that rookies sometimes regress in their sophomore seasons. it's not particularly sturdy but at least it's something that's happened enough times to justify it being a thing.

the argument that he's actually just average and defenses caught on to what he was doing and slowed him down as the season went on just makes no sense if you actually watch the games. it implies that he's a one trick pony even though the panthers morphed from something of a more conventional NFL-flavored spread out of the gates to a sort of spread option with a different run/pass balance in the second half of the season.

even if what this guy is saying is true and defenses did in fact catch on and cam wasn't nearly as effective and we ignore the strong counter arguments to this proposition, it still doesn't mean a whole lot as that's something that happens to almost all rookie quarterbacks. what he does with this offseason and how he continues to work on his game will be what matters.

[Peppers90 NC]

who is the saints qb right now again?

[Peppers90 NC]

alejandro hanging around here so much he just might become a panthers fan

[Who Dat Pat]

well i take it back if he's in fact not a saints fan. it doesn't matter though because his post is not accurate and his reasoning is flawed.

you also aligned yourself with him in your original post so responding to you is fair game:

Article basically makes the same point I did, almost no wins, all wins against inferior opponents, best numbers at begining of season when defenses where weak from no offseason.

I wasn't backtracking on what I said, I was just answering the guys question. The point I had made about Cam was that I think he was pretty good to begin with and wasn't as successful as season went on. Further, I keep reading people here posting how he is possibly the best QB ever and everyone from other teams is jealous and just don't see that level of success in his first year to warrant such outrageous claims. In fact, if I had to pick a QB new to league that worries me, I would easily say Stafford. I know he had a few years already, but last year was his first full season and he looks like he is not too far from Brees or Rodgers level. But comparing Stafford to Cam, although a little unfair because of Stafford being around longer, I still easily pick Stafford as having the better future based on the play we've seen so far. That's not to say Cam is not an above average guy, because he is very good, but the step from good to great has to do with consistency and it's still to early to make claims that everyone else is jealous they don't have him or he will be best QB ever.

I guess the simplified point is Cam hasn't done enough to prove he will be a great QB. The arrow is definitely pointing up, but the sample size is too small to make forgone conlclusions like that. A lot of the same claims were made about Freeman after his rookie season, only for his next season be a huge regression.

[fieryprophet]

I wasn't backtracking on what I said, I was just answering the guys question. The point I had made about Cam was that I think he was pretty good to begin with and wasn't as successful as season went on. Further, I keep reading people here posting how he is possibly the best QB ever and everyone from other teams is jealous and just don't see that level of success in his first year to warrant such outrageous claims. In fact, if I had to pick a QB new to league that worries me, I would easily say Stafford. I know he had a few years already, but last year was his first full season and he looks like he is not too far from Brees or Rodgers level. But comparing Stafford to Cam, although a little unfair because of Stafford being around longer, I still easily pick Stafford as having the better future based on the play we've seen so far. That's not to say Cam is not an above average guy, because he is very good, but the step from good to great has to do with consistency and it's still to early to make claims that everyone else is jealous they don't have him or he will be best QB ever.

I guess the simplified point is Cam hasn't done enough to prove he will be a great QB. The arrow is definitely pointing up, but the sample size is too small to make forgone conlclusions like that. A lot of the same claims were made about Freeman after his rookie season, only for his next season be a huge regression.

Freeman's big year was his second, not his rookie year (just like The Golden Calf of Bristol kept getting brought up in rookie of the year arguments last year when he wasn't one.)

Nobody's making the claim Cam is the best QB in the NFL right now. You're making up straw men arguments so you can bitch about things only you imagine are being said. It is perfectly fair to say, however, that Cam has already done far more to dispel any doubts about his work ethic/intangibles/ability to run an NFL offense that only fools would doubt him.

All Cam had to do this year to validate his season was be a decent QB, and to show flashes of promise. Expectations were that low due to the media firestorm and pre-draft criticism. Instead, he obliterated every obstacle, turned in the greatest rookie performance a quarterback has ever had, and did so in a completely different manner than he had throughout college and in every way the "experts" said he couldn't. You shouldn't fear that Cam was only an average passer compared to Brees. You should fear that it took him less than one offseason to morph from a raw prospect into an average passer compared to Brees; and the distance between where is now and where Brees is after being in the league for years is smaller than where Cam started.

[pantherj]

Cam doesn't have average arm strength, he's well above average. He doesn't throw an average deep ball, he's elite in that area. He is the most elusive QB I have ever seen, and an incredible scrambler.

Cam is closer to average as far as his short and mid-range accuracy is concerned.

I don't care about the lockout as far as Cam's play was concerned in the first half of the season. All any fan would need to do is watch Cam complete deep passes to covered revievers in the GB, AZ, or whichever early season game you prefer, and you can tell it wasn't "lockout" magic that put the ball right on the money. The DBs were in position to make a play, but the throws were perfect and couldn't be defended. That's what is pissing fans off, the idea that those throws don't count because the lockout hurt opposing defenses. The lockout hurt Cam as well. The throws count, and so do the shitty passes and INTs he threw in the first half of the season.

The cause of Cam's decline in stats was due to opposing defenses focusing on taking away the deep ball, and giving Cam mid-range targets that he struggled to hit on a consistant basis. The plan worked to a certain extent, and now the ball is in our court as to how to counter the new defensive strategy.

[panthers55]

Look at his first 5 games versus his last 5. In the first five his passer rating was a combined 84.6. The last 5 games it was 99.2

TD/INT ratio- first five games- 7/6 or 1.16, last five games- 8/3 or 2.66.

These are called quality stats not quantity stats and therefore more meaningful. Amazing what you find when you go beyond the surface and do a little research.....