Jason Taylor: Chalk up last year as a sophmore slump for Newton

[KillerKat]

2011: TD - 35 (21 passing), INT - 17, Comp% - 60%, QBR - 84.5

2012: TD - 27 (19 passing), INT - 12, Comp% - 57.7%, QBR - 86.2

Cam had a massive rookie season. The best by a rookie QB. And still ended up with only 2 less passing TDs and 5 less INTs in 2012 compared to 2011. Yeah his completion percentage took a little bit of a hit, but his quarterback rating went up by 2 points. And if they are looking at wins for QBs, he had 1 more win in 2012 than 2011. His numbers are almost identical to his rookie year. The only big difference is he had more rushing TDs his rookie season than last year. So is that the phantom slump they are talking about?

[Jakob]

I hate this Sophmore Slump BS

[Jakob]

NFL writers fuging suck nowadays

[Peppers90 NC]

I wonder how many people will predict, like they did for Cam last year, to have the sophomore slump when mentioning Luck, RG3 and Wilson. My guess it only applied to Cam.

[KillerKat]

I agree that the bar has been set very low for NFL analysts. What irritates me is they can create any bs story they want and then the public begins to believe them.

[KillerKat]

I wonder how many people will predict, like they did for Cam last year, to have the sophomore slump when mentioning Luck, RG3 and Wilson. My guess it only applies to Cam.

They just said RG3 will come back stronger than ever next season

[Peppers90 NC]

FTR, I hope last year was a slump, because if it were, once he gets out of this "slump" poo is going to get real! Not only that, just shows how high he set his standards.

[BigSyke]

If that's a slump, he'll be a sure hof if he gets over the hump.

[Ivan The Awesome]

He had a very rough start, that's about it. I wouldn't call this a slump though.

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

Who cares..we make the playoffs and ESPN will be begging to have Cam teabag The whole First Take staff followed by Mike n Mike.

[KillerKat]

And what's also irritating is if some *** like Luck had a total of 27 TDs overall and 12 INTs, ESPN would be all over his jock calling him the best QB of all time.

[KillerKat]

Who cares..we make the playoffs and ESPN will be begging to have Cam teabag The whole First Take staff followed by Mike n Mike.

Nah, they would just say how lucky he is or that the defense or some other crap that has carried the team.

[TheRumGone]

Stop watching/listening to ESPN. They're almost all idiots.

[KillerKat]

Only time I watch ESPN is NFL32 after work. It's usually alright, but when Taylor and/or Bruschi is on, it turns to sh**. Nothing else was on today. Now I regret it.