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The local media should be ashamed of themselves

MechaZain

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Charlotte Observer: Cam Newton and the Panthers’ inevitable breakup has never been more clear. The end.

Absolutely pathetic how the media in this town is openly fixated on the idea of the franchise’s greatest QB leaving and has been for the better part of a year now.

Fans who are also ready to move on from Cam will tell you they’re just being realists, but the fact is this camp has been going out of their way to push him out long before it was a thought on Teppers mind. It was “inevitable” that Cam would follow Luke into retirement. “Trading him makes the most sense” they said when he went on IR. The same local press tried to hand a complete JAG of a QB the keys to the city as soon as he brought just a slice of the success here that Cam did. Before Kyle it was Taylor, and Grier, etcetera ad nauseam. Now every week I have to read some local thinkpiece about how both parties should just split for their own good. Not a whole lot of suggestions he should stay. Just hammering home the idea that he’s already out the door.

The sad thing is at this point even if he gets healthy we’ve made it hard for him to want to stay. I only hope now that if he does and wants to stick around, he realizes that the media doesn’t represent the fans. 

 

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23 minutes ago, MechaZain said:

Charlotte Observer: Cam Newton and the Panthers’ inevitable breakup has never been more clear. The end.

Absolutely pathetic how the media in this town is openly fixated on the idea of the franchise’s greatest QB leaving and has been for the better part of a year now.

Fans who are also ready to move on from Cam will tell you they’re just being realists, but the fact is this camp has been going out of their way to push him out long before it was a thought on Teppers mind. It was “inevitable” that Cam would follow Luke into retirement. “Trading him makes the most sense” they said when he went on IR. The same local press tried to hand a complete JAG of a QB the keys to the city as soon as he brought just a slice of the success here that Cam did. Before Kyle it was Taylor, and Grier, etcetera ad nauseam. Now every week I have to read some local thinkpiece about how both parties should just split for their own good. Not a whole lot of suggestions he should stay. Just hammering home the idea that he’s already out the door.

The sad thing is at this point even if he gets healthy we’ve made it hard for him to want to stay. I only hope now that if he does and wants to stick around, he realizes that the media doesn’t represent the fans. 

 

This will become reality if Cam does not perform well and is supposed to be 100% healthy will take a bad turn and he will be let go or traded. None of us want to see this happen until Cam takes the field to prove himself.

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Hate to say it but the observer has largely always been this way with Newton over the years.

There was one year the Panthers and Cam were eliminated from the playoffs and an observer article almost seemed to be giddy over it the way they were talking down about Newton in particular.

You don't want there to be a certain element to it, but at times it's undeniable.

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3 minutes ago, TheRed said:

Hate to say it but the observer has largely always been this way with Newton over the years.

There was one year the Panthers and Cam were eliminated from the playoffs and an observer article almost seemed to be giddy over it the way they were talking down about Newton in particular.

You don't want there to be a certain element to it, but at times it's undeniable.

The day after the Super Bowl was harsh too. Observer has been trash for Panther news. Only shining light during the Cam era was Rodrigue. 

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33 minutes ago, MechaZain said:

Charlotte Observer: Cam Newton and the Panthers’ inevitable breakup has never been more clear. The end.

Absolutely pathetic how the media in this town is openly fixated on the idea of the franchise’s greatest QB leaving and has been for the better part of a year now.

Fans who are also ready to move on from Cam will tell you they’re just being realists, but the fact is this camp has been going out of their way to push him out long before it was a thought on Teppers mind. It was “inevitable” that Cam would follow Luke into retirement. “Trading him makes the most sense” they said when he went on IR. The same local press tried to hand a complete JAG of a QB the keys to the city as soon as he brought just a slice of the success here that Cam did. Before Kyle it was Taylor, and Grier, etcetera ad nauseam. Now every week I have to read some local thinkpiece about how both parties should just split for their own good. Not a whole lot of suggestions he should stay. Just hammering home the idea that he’s already out the door.

The sad thing is at this point even if he gets healthy we’ve made it hard for him to want to stay. I only hope now that if he does and wants to stick around, he realizes that the media doesn’t represent the fans. 

 

There is not one thing in the article that isnt true

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As much as I've been swayed to really wanting to keep him I think they are likely correct in their prediction. Nothing in the article is worthy of shame. It's just an inconvenient truth that people don't want to deal with. It's in the best interest of both parties involved. 

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4 minutes ago, Moo Daeng said:

As much as I've been swayed to really wanting to keep him I think they are likely correct in their prediction. Nothing in the article is worthy of shame. It's just an inconvenient truth that people don't want to deal with. It's in the best interest of both parties involved. 

Everyone is saying this now.  Columnists, beat reporters,  former players/friends, nfl reporters etc.  There is too much smoke for this not to be true.  Cam has played his last down as a panther

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27 minutes ago, joeyxfresco said:

The day after the Super Bowl was harsh too. Observer has been trash for Panther news. Only shining light during the Cam era was Rodrigue. 

Well of course except when she tried really hard to get famous by making Cam out to be Harvey Weinstein and her skeletons came out.

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