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Cam Newton says being "erased" by panthers has hurt his feelings..

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I can tell you this:  I was a fan of Cam the football player and I used to tell Huddlers that Cam would have a short career and they ripped me.  My thinking, he was not that accurate (overthrew a lot) and his incredible athleticism would save the day.  I compared his career to that of a RB--when his legs start to diminish and his body has taken a beating, he will be a liability.  Not to say I was right--I hated it when I saw it.

Here is how I was wrong:  I saw Cam acting like a "showboat" during games--hamming it up---the "Look at me" virus. I thought that is disrespectful to teammates.  I saw him doing it at the first practice at BOA when he was a rookie in August.  Then I started watching practices.  With no audience, he was the same way when it was just his teammates.  It was passion, not attention-seeking, and his teammates loved him and he loved them.

A few years earlier, I watched Steve Smith at an OTA.  He was berating Wayne Jarrett.  I noticed than none of his teammates approached him or wanted to talk to him.  He was a loner--except, oddly, John Kasay.  He and Kasay seemed close. 

Cam deserves a statue, picture, and banner in our stadium. He should be an ambassador.  Smith, on the other hand, punched teammates twice and retired a Raven

 

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8 minutes ago, countryboi said:

No, My reasoning is that we don't know what happened behind the scenes, and all the former players who were invited have been more involved with the Panthers on a regular basis. It's the equivalent of not speaking to a friend in years, then finding out later that he's upset because he wasn't invited to your party.

Not really, it's more like the only one not getting invited to your high school reunion because whoever in charge is afraid of you being the center of attention. Which is true, but not Cam's fault and it hurts his feelings on a personal level even though the popularity thing is out of his control, no matter how humble he would try to be about it. 

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9 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

I can tell you this:  I was a fan of Cam the football player and I used to tell Huddlers that Cam would have a short career and they ripped me.  My thinking, he was not that accurate (overthrew a lot) and his incredible athleticism would save the day.  I compared his career to that of a RB--when his legs start to diminish and his body has taken a beating, he will be a liability.  Not to say I was right--I hated it when I saw it.

Here is how I was wrong:  I saw Cam acting like a "showboat" during games--hamming it up---the "Look at me" virus. I thought that is disrespectful to teammates.  I saw him doing it at the first practice at BOA when he was a rookie in August.  Then I started watching practices.  With no audience, he was the same way when it was just his teammates.  It was passion, not attention-seeking, and his teammates loved him and he loved them.

A few years earlier, I watched Steve Smith at an OTA.  He was berating Wayne Jarrett.  I noticed than none of his teammates approached him or wanted to talk to him.  He was a loner--except, oddly, John Kasay.  He and Kasay seemed close. 

Cam deserves a statue, picture, and banner in our stadium. He should be an ambassador.  Smith, on the other hand, punched teammates twice and badmouthed the franchise when he went to Baltimore. 

 

You really weren't right about the reasons why his career was shortened though  It wasn't from the running and it wasn't from being unable to effectively run anymore from the wear and tear like happens to RB. It was a fluke injury to his throwing shoulder because of an INT caused by his #1 WR quitting on a route. Then what was left of his shoulder got destroyed by a hit suffered from passing as a pocket QB behind a shoddy OL.

If anything, it proved the "Cam is going to have a short career because his running will cause him to age like a RB" wrong. Cam's career wasn't shortened because his running ability declined. It was shortened because he lost his ability to effectively throw the ball. His running was secondary to his passing all along and it took losing his throwing ability to demonstrate that. Cam very well could've adapted to not being able to run as well as he aged. He proved to be a much more efficient passer (68% completion rate) in Norv's offense than mose thought he could be. But he couldn't adapt to no longer being able to throw the ball effectively down the field.

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