What did Cam Newton do?

[Khyber53]

On 4/21/2024 at 3:14 PM, CamWhoaaCam said:

Franchise hasn't been the same without Cam.

 

We were robbed of a SB. I truly believe we win a championship if Cam never got injured. He was too good of a QB not to have won at least 1 championship. The fact he got us to a SB with what he had on offense is amazing.

 

These elite QB's today have multiple elite weapons on offense and still can't reach a SB. 

The biggest knock on Cam was that Cam was such a superstar, once in a generation talent that the coaches leaned too heavily on him, that the rest of the team leaned too heavily on them, the management of the team just sat back and didn't build like they should have, and that in the end, no matter how much Cam believed he was that guy, one man can't win you a Super Bowl. 

Cam took up most the oxygen in the room, always has, always will, he's just that big of a deal. And sometimes that's just how it works out. Marino had the same effect. Rodgers was always a threat of being that way. The game revolves around the QB, doubtless, but there has to be more to it than that.

We had other guys, certainly, like Luke and TD, Double Trouble and Jordan Gross. But it was the Cam show, make no bones about it. And we just never built it to be more than that. 

 

[CamWhoaaCam]

1 hour ago, Khyber53 said:

The biggest knock on Cam was that Cam was such a superstar, once in a generation talent that the coaches leaned too heavily on him, that the rest of the team leaned too heavily on them, the management of the team just sat back and didn't build like they should have, and that in the end, no matter how much Cam believed he was that guy, one man can't win you a Super Bowl. 

Cam took up most the oxygen in the room, always has, always will, he's just that big of a deal. And sometimes that's just how it works out. Marino had the same effect. Rodgers was always a threat of being that way. The game revolves around the QB, doubtless, but there has to be more to it than that.

We had other guys, certainly, like Luke and TD, Double Trouble and Jordan Gross. But it was the Cam show, make no bones about it. And we just never built it to be more than that. 

 

Well said my friend. I almost came to tears reading this. We failed Cam and there is nothing else to discuss.

[rayzor]

1 hour ago, Khyber53 said:

The biggest knock on Cam was that Cam was such a superstar, once in a generation talent that the coaches leaned too heavily on him, that the rest of the team leaned too heavily on them, the management of the team just sat back and didn't build like they should have, and that in the end, no matter how much Cam believed he was that guy, one man can't win you a Super Bowl. 

Cam took up most the oxygen in the room, always has, always will, he's just that big of a deal. And sometimes that's just how it works out. Marino had the same effect. Rodgers was always a threat of being that way. The game revolves around the QB, doubtless, but there has to be more to it than that.

We had other guys, certainly, like Luke and TD, Double Trouble and Jordan Gross. But it was the Cam show, make no bones about it. And we just never built it to be more than that. 

 

with that much talent it's a damn shame that we didn't have at least one ring. we should have been a team that was making a deep run in the playoffs every year. the fact that we didn't win more is a fault of management....from the GM's office and the coaching staff. 

we had the talent, not the management.  

[Khyber53]

1 hour ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

Well said my friend. I almost came to tears reading this. We failed Cam and there is nothing else to discuss.

No, they failed the Panthers. Cam, great as he was, was just a part of the Panthers, not the whole organization. They treated him like he could be enough, that he was Superman like he claimed he was. You can't rest a whole franchise's hopes on one man of flesh and bone. Eventually they can't reach the summit, eventually the wear and tear takes them down.

They wanted Cam to be that guy. Cam wanted to be that guy. We all wanted to be that guy. We all just got blinded by the light.

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

3 hours ago, Khyber53 said:

The biggest knock on Cam was that Cam was such a superstar, once in a generation talent that the coaches leaned too heavily on him, that the rest of the team leaned too heavily on them, the management of the team just sat back and didn't build like they should have, and that in the end, no matter how much Cam believed he was that guy, one man can't win you a Super Bowl. 

Cam took up most the oxygen in the room, always has, always will, he's just that big of a deal. And sometimes that's just how it works out. Marino had the same effect. Rodgers was always a threat of being that way. The game revolves around the QB, doubtless, but there has to be more to it than that.

We had other guys, certainly, like Luke and TD, Double Trouble and Jordan Gross. But it was the Cam show, make no bones about it. And we just never built it to be more than that. 

 

Still no excuse not to draft better. Cam needed receivers the whole time

[Khyber53]

1 hour ago, Move the Panthers to Raleigh said:

Still no excuse not to draft better. Cam needed receivers the whole time

And offensive linemen. 

[Khyber53]

Okay, let's be honest about this. It happened a long time ago. It can't be changed. We made it to 2nd place that season and played in our second Super Bowl, two more than some older organizations have ever had and one more than most. 

It's time to let it go.

It's time to let Cam go.

Time just flows in one direction, we need to be looking downstream.