Could Cam Newton have played through a cold?

[Saca312]

Just something someone brought up on my twitter timeline.

Take a look at Cam’s Wednesday and today’s pressers. He certainly sounds under the weather. 

While that doesn’t excuse all of Cam’s clear bad play, it does explain some of it, albeit sort of a reach.

[LinvilleGorge]

Cam didn't play nearly as bad as many are trying to make out. Sure, he missed some throws. Sure, the stats look bad. But honestly, there's really only a handful of plays we can look back and say that Cam screwed that play up. There was simply no one open on the vast majority of our passing plays. Whether Cam has a cold or not isn't going to change that.

[Khyber53]

Cam didn't play like Cam, that's for sure. His passing was obviously off target and even his runs didn't have any of the glide or authority that he normally has. The one series after the sideline shot of him talking to the team was the only one where he looked large and in charge, the rest of the time he was just mojo-less.

The entire offense played like that, so maybe there is a cold going around or something. 

[E CaT PanTHer 2]

i honestly think just like the rams rested their starters and got blown out by the niners, even though seeding still mattered to them, the Panthers had a similar mindset. 

It looked like we didn't game plan at all on offense. Could be just wishful thinking on my part, but lets not kid each other here, the Panthers were in the playoffs already and atlanta was fighting for their playoff lives. They simply wanted it more than we did.

next week will be a different story. we'll see a much more motivated and hungry cam. 

i'm not too worried

[Mikey815]

3 hours ago, Saca312 said:

Just something someone brought up on my twitter timeline.

Take a look at Cam’s Wednesday and today’s pressers. He certainly sounds under the weather. 

While that doesn’t excuse all of Cam’s clear bad play, it does explain some of it, albeit sort of a reach.

He was just bad

[Mikey815]

I would try to sign jimmy g or cousins and trade cam for a wideout 

[Ace_Aladdin]

Idk if he did or not but he needs to be more damn consistent starting now , it’s do or die ppl!

Keep Pounding!!!!

[cardiackat88.]

Let's think about some of his games in Atlanta. Nakumarma or whatever his name was screwing the whole game up. Then losing the only game of the 15-1 season where everyone played like they were drunk. THEN last year in concussion-land where he was knocked silly on the goal line, and that was after he was already looking super loopy and lost. No wonder he didn't play his best yesterday.

[jtm]

I can’t fathom how some can say anything other than Cam looked horrendous yesterday. 

[Snake]

There was at least 3 times WRs didn't run timing routes right. One resulted in a pick were Funchess gave up on a route. Let's not beat around the bush after Byrd went down we have absolutely no one to catch balls. 

[ickmule]

Oh my, Cam had the sniffles so it’s okay he sucked.  Give me a break.