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Brian Billick's Power Rankings

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Cary Kollins

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"Who in the history of the NFL who's won a championship looks like Cam Newton?"

--Brian Billick

Wow. It's one thing to have us ranked low in a poll.

It's another to put that statement out there. That just oozes of ignorance and spite. Hateful even.

So much wrong with that statement I don't even know where to begin.

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mr beauxjangles

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What a stupid comment coming from a guy that won a Super Bowl with Trent fugging Dilfer as his quarterback. In his six years prior to leading the Ravens to the Super Bowl, Dilfer posted a 54.8% completion percentage and 68.9 rating, with 70 TDs and 80 INTs.

 

So let's recap:

You can win a Super Bowl with this quarterback: 54.8% completion percentage, 68.9 rating, and a 0.875 TD:INT ratio (Dilfer)

You can't win a Super Bowl with this quarterback: 58.9% completion percentage, 85.3 rating, and a 1.38 TD:INT ratio (Cam)

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My problem is the attributes that Cam Newton brings to the game has not translated to the NFL very well. I would put it to you this way. Who in the history of the NFL who's won a championship looks like Cam Newton? Now that's very narrow, conventional thinking but either the league much like we said last year with The Golden Calf of Bristol is going to totally change because of this unique athlete or he's going to have to change his style of play to compete in the National Football League. Now he's an excellent athlete. He's got better throwing action than either Vince Young or The Golden Calf of Bristol. He's very smart. So those are going to bode very well for him. This type of athlete coming off really only one year, two hundred eighty-some odd throws. I had one quarterback coach tell me that you can only take about 10% of the throws in the spread and translate them into the NFL. Well that means you're making a decision to give a guy maybe $50 million on less than a couple dozen throws. That concerns me. We all know Heisman trophy winning quarterbacks have not done well in the National Football League and his off-field issues from Florida, obviously to Auburn, right down to the pre-combine media workout that he had, the way he's handling himself, his Lebron James-ish approach to it are major, major red flags for me.

 

Context, for those who are interested in it.  Doesn't quite fit with the narrative that's being presented here, but who really expected it to?

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Cyberjag

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Parse it a little, you get this:

 

Now that's very narrow, conventional thinking but either the league <snip> is going to totally change because of this unique athlete or he's going to have to change his style of play to compete in the National Football League.

 

 

Newton changed his style of play, but more than that the league has changed a lot in reaction to his talent.  And Billick was also correct in qualifying his statement as narrow and conventional thinking.

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