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Bj-Monster23

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Who did you hear that from?

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which part? i'm pretty sure you had a thread about hearing from a source that the interviews went poorly and they crossed newton off the list..days later we learn that they had asked for more blinn film 3 days after those same interviews from Peter Kings report.

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Someone find me a draft guy with Cam #1 on their big board.

bradford wasn't number 1 on any big boards either..QB is just a different animal and the whole draft process behind it can get convoluted..If they think he's a franchise QB it doesn't matter where he is on the overall big board; we don't have one and we need to start developing one if we want to compete in the NFC South. I know you don't think he's one, I can't say I know what the Panthers think atm. Past experiences would say no but it sounds like things are changing in the FO.

whoa... the fact Urban Meyer won't even talk about cam other than to say he's an athlete is kind of alarming. any one else get that vibe?

not much else to say about what happened i think..we all know he was messing up at Florida off the field, I'm just one of the guys who thinks he's moved passed that. Some people don't.

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Ehh I'll find some more.

Point is, Cam is not #1 on any big board, let alone the #1 qb. Gabbert is in the top 5-10 in 90% of big boards and almost all them have Cam behind him...

the mcshay had bradford at 11th best prospect.

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This was from the 11th of this month and the game tape was sent three days before the article on Monday.

A very interesting package was shipped from Brenham, Texas, to Charlotte late Friday.

Four game tapes of 2009 Blinn (Texas) College football games, with Cam Newton quarterbacking, were packed off to the Carolina Panthers.

"They wanted to see a little more tape,'' the offensive coordinator and quarterback coach of that junior college team, Ronny Feldman, told me Friday night. "Of all the teams looking at him here, Carolina's been the big one. They called me twice this week.''

I talked to Carolina GM Marty Hurney the other day, and though he didn't give me a clue about who the Panthers plan to pick with the first overall choice ("We've got time,'' Hurney said, "and maybe our list changes before the first round begins''), it's beginning to look a lot like Newton. More and more, the Panthers seem to be getting comfortable with the idea of choosing a player with only 284 major-college passes ... in some part because of the year he spent righting his football and personal life at a junior college, Blinn, 45 minutes outside Houston.

The Panthers haven't seen Blinn tape yet, and it will probably be the last tape they watch before finalizing their decision on Newton. But it's a sign they're pretty far down the road on him if they're going to look at how Newton played in what's probably the equivalent of a good Division I-AA football season. Blinn won the National Junior College Athletic Association championship in Newton's year there. Most of the kids on the team are 18 or 19, stopping off for a year or two on the way to -- they hope -- better things.

In his year under Feldman, Newton played in what's close to the kind of "Pistol'' offense run at Nevada. In the Pistol, the quarterback stands about halfway back to where a passer would take a snap in the shotgun -- maybe four yards instead of the deeper seven -- giving him the ball faster and allowing him to make decisions quicker while still being able to analyze the defense before the snap. Junior college football is often discounted totally, like it never happened, like it would have been better for Newton (in this case) to have sat for another mostly inactive year at Florida behind The Golden Calf of Bristol, playing only in garbage time. How good is the quality of football? Inconsistent, depending on the weekly opponent; Newton's team rolled up 83 points on Cisco (Texas) Junior College. Four skill players from that 2009 team ended up at Auburn, Houston, Texas Tech and Southern Miss.

But the Blinn year's a mystery, the missing year in Newton's life to a lot of people, including some in the NFL. Feldman said about 10 teams "have been through here'' looking for information on Newton, as NFL teams should seek given the quarterback's questionable background (possession of a stolen laptop, accusations of cheating in class) at Florida. For the record, Newton started all 12 Blinn games, completing 61 percent of his passes in an offense strange to him, with 22 touchdown passes and five interceptions. He averaged nine rushes per game and ran for 655 yards and 16 touchdowns. But more than football, NFL teams want to know what Newton was like in the year (January through December 2009) after he left Florida and before he went to Auburn.

One thing he wasn't was phony, said Feldman, who's livid about the impression that Newton's a fake. "I heard somebody on the radio the other day talk about his fake smile and how he's not genuine. That guy is full of s--- with a capital 'S.' He doesn't know Cam!

"I was with him day after day, side by side, for a year," added Feldman, now Blinn's head coach. "I can't say enough good things about him. He's a yes-sir, no-sir kid, 100 percent trustworthy, with a strong passion to compete at anything. What a strong, strong leader.

"The first day here [in the offseason] they were all lifting, going after it hard. When it was over, they all thought it was done. But Cam, who doesn't even know these guys yet, says, 'I'm gonna be out there throwing if anyone wants to come.' Five or six go out. The next day, 10 or 15 are out with him. He comes in and says to me, 'Coach, you got five or six pass plays from our playbook you could draw up? We're going out there and we want to run some of our plays.' I said, "Wooooooo.' Then, later in the week, I see him out there running the stadium stairs, and a couple days later, he's got a bunch of guys out there with him. A natural leader, a strong, strong leader. Charismatic.

"And he just played great for us after the first two or three weeks. He was rusty at first. But then he showed he could do whatever he wanted. The last game, our championship game against Fort Scott [Kansas], we're down 18 [actually 16] in the third quarter, and he hurts his shoulder in the first half, and he can't really throw it in the second half. But he plays the option and brings us back and we win it.''

Feldman's a trip, a longtime coach in Texas who talks like Bum Phillips. Very opinionated about Newton and what's he's been through this offseason. Very sure he's never seen anyone like him in 28 years of coaching football.

"A few times,'' he said, "I'd be sitting in my office late, watching tape, trying to figure out what we'd do in the game that week. He'd call and say, 'What are you doing? Can I come up and watch with you?' And he'd come up and we'd go over things. He just loved it. The best way I can say it with Cam about football is, he's just ate up with it.''

I asked Feldman if Newton ever had the kind of problems at Blinn that he had at Florida. Absolutely not, he said. And the quarterback who said he wanted to be an entertainer and an icon as well as a great player ... Feldman never saw that guy. So Blinn becomes a piece of the puzzle that would lead Carolina to do what many now think is very likely -- pick Newton first overall in the draft.

In the past three autumns, Newton has been in three football towns in the deep south and southwest: Gainesville, Brenham and Auburn. All three places -- Florida negatively, Blinn positively and Auburn famously -- will play a part in where he gets picked 17 days from now. I hope you have a little better feel of Newton's little-known year now.

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Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/peter_king/04/10/mmqb/index.html#ixzz1KQMnGZyQ

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And?

Hmmm, it was in response to a statement made by verge and swordcat.... Verge said his meetings went badly, but yet after those meetings we asked for more game tape from Blinn and talked with the OC two or three times in a week... Verge said he hadn't heard that, so I posted it for him to see...

very much doubt they would've asked for it if those meetings went that badly.

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