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Jerry Richardson Talks Cam

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What’s he like?

“As a player or person?” asks Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson.

As a person.

“He wants to please,” Richardson says Monday. “He wants to please his parents, his teammates, his coaches. That’s been the characteristic that’s so refreshing.”

Before the Panthers committed to investing the first pick in the 2011 draft on Newton, Richardson invited Newton to his Charlotte home. After the meeting, Newton sent Richardson a handwritten note. Richardson has neither an email nor a Twitter account. He’s not on Facebook, either. But Newton probably didn’t know this.

Newton wrote a long note, one man to another, without the assistance of a laptop.

“They were his words,” says Richardson, who was and is moved. “It wasn’t written by somebody in public relations.”

What’s the relationship between the owner, who turned 76 this month, and the 23-year-old quarterback?

“I’m very straightforward with him, as I am with all my players,” says Richardson. “I’ll tell him what I think. If he disagrees, he’ll tell me. But with respect. He’s always respectful with me, as I am with him.”

It’s tough to write a column about Newton that doesn’t come off as an advertisement. But nobody in the organization says anything critical about him – not players, not coaches, not management.

He’s their quarterback, and they’re his organization.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/07/30/v-print/3418168/just-how-valuable-is-panthers.html

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A bit ominous and eerie to think about. Hopefully he'll witness a Super Bowl win before he's gone.

I hope so as well. I know it might be a bit of a pipe dream realistically, but if Kalil's promise were to come true this season, I don't think there'd be a better feel good team story out there - With the excitement surrounding the team like it never has before, the bounceback from last season, and the return of some of our best players from severe injuries, as well JR's acknowledgment of Cam most likely being the last QB he'll ever draft - it would all make that trophy mean so much more to players and fans alike. I just think that everything, the history as well as the future of the franchise are both sort of coming together and intertwining, and personally, I as a Panthers fan really feel like it's our time - or at least damn close.

Sorry if that didn't make too much sense.

2 in the morning...

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I hope so as well. I know it might be a bit of a pipe dream realistically, but if Kalil's promise were to come true this season, I don't think there'd be a better feel good team story out there - With the excitement surrounding the team like it never has before, the bounceback from last season, and the return of some of our best players from severe injuries, as well JR's acknowledgment of Cam most likely being the last QB he'll ever draft - it would all make that trophy mean so much more to players and fans alike. I just think that everything, the history as well as the future of the franchise are both sort of coming together and intertwining, and personally, I as a Panthers fan really feel like it's our time - or at least damn close.

Sorry if that didn't make too much sense.

2 in the morning...

I'm with you brother,

It's late and I'm stoned but I feel the fuging magic.

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I hope so as well. I know it might be a bit of a pipe dream realistically, but if Kalil's promise were to come true this season, I don't think there'd be a better feel good team story out there - With the excitement surrounding the team like it never has before, the bounceback from last season, and the return of some of our best players from severe injuries, as well JR's acknowledgment of Cam most likely being the last QB he'll ever draft - it would all make that trophy mean so much more to players and fans alike. I just think that everything, the history as well as the future of the franchise are both sort of coming together and intertwining, and personally, I as a Panthers fan really feel like it's our time - or at least damn close.

Sorry if that didn't make too much sense.

2 in the morning...

You made perfect sense. I definitely feel the same way.

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Nice passive aggressive dig on the laptop, Sorensen, you hack.

Nice writeup otherwise! I noticed a lot of players going up to JR before practice yesterday. Could just be taking the opportunity to kiss the bosses ass but it seems like he's the kind of owner that players want to play for.

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