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Great Article On Cam by Mike Silver

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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--all-pouting-aside--panthers-phenom-qb-cam-newton-refuses-to-accept-losing.html

If you're starting to get the sense that Newton is a tad exacting when evaluating his own efforts, you are not mistaken.

"It's just accountability," Newton says. "You call it what you want to call it. It's downgraded by some people, and it's accepted by a lot more people. If you're a competitor, you won't think twice about your expectations for yourself."

In other words, no one can be harder on Newton than Newton is on himself. "Absolutely," he says. "Absolutely. I think that's in my nature. It's hereditary to a degree. I sit down and watch games with my brother and my father, and we're all critiquing every single play. How could I have made it better? How could I have gotten myself out of a jam?"

Best of all, from the Panthers' perspective, is that Newton's push for perfection is governed by a yearning for organizational success, rather than focused on individual glory.

"The thing I like about Cam though is that even though he's now in the spotlight and he's kind of put the Panthers on the map and become a superstar, he cares very much about his position on his team and helping his team win," says Kalil, who took out a full-page ad this offseason predicting the Panthers would win Super Bowl XLVII. "And that's something you saw last year. He got a lot of criticism for his demeanor and how he took a lot of those losses, and that says something a lot about him – that it's not the accolades, that the records he was able to break don't mean anything to him unless he can win football games.'

"There are times you wanted him to [be less emotional], but you don't ever want to tell somebody, 'Hey, that'll happen, get used to it,' because that's not the right attitude. You've just got to tell him, 'Look, this is the NFL, it's gonna be a battle, it's hard, every single game is gonna be a championship-type football game.'

"I think as the season went on, he did a lot better with how he carried himself. But in the same regard I think it came off in a positive way to a lot of guys. Although the media kind of crucified him for it and people outside saw it as a negative, I think guys really responded to it in a positive way because to us it sent a signal that this guy really cares about winning football games – not for himself, for this football team. It means something to him. And I think that kind of attitude is something that's inspiring, it's contagious."

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"When he got here they showed him this huge, thick playbook and said, 'This is the style of offense we're gonna run here,' and he said, 'Great,' " Kalil recalls. "He was very adamant about making sure they didn't water it down for him. He said, 'Whatever you need me to do, that's what I'll do.' And it was new to all of us. We all kind of had that learning curve. It was tough.

"As the year went on, he really matured and took control of that offense, which was tremendous. And this year we're moving on again. We call Rob Chudzinski 'the Mad Scientist' because the guy's in the building all day long, every day, and I've never seen a coach that spends more time than him constantly evolving this thing. And Cam is working harder than ever."

Says Newton of his insistence that Chudzinski not simplify the offense: "Honestly, I really couldn't ask that. This offense was great before me, and this offense will be great after me. It's a system, and execution is the key for it to be great."

Seems like the critics got that wrong.

Great read. thanks.

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