Another area where Cam needs to improve (according to Coach, and others). "It's electric!" LOL

[CRA]

As much as Cam runs....a traditional slide is more dangerous IMO. Exposes him to take shots basically unprotected.

He runs smart and unlike RGIII and whoever protects the ball. He flops more than dives in reality.

[KSpan]

It should be a penalty to hit QBs that give themselves up. Most teams, just touch him while down. Number 59 for Tampa kept diving at him on the ground. They were cheap shots.

My thought exactly. Off the top of my head, Tampa is the only team I can recall that has taken shots at him every time like that.

[CRA]

Anyone thinking he should slide needs to realize as much as he runs those late shots to the back will start coming at his face and upper body.....lots of QBs have been destroyed sliding with big hits. He runs too much to slide

[rayzor]

It should be a penalty to hit QBs that give themselves up.  Most teams, just touch him while down.  Number 59 for Tampa kept diving at him on the ground.  They were cheap shots.

 

agreed. have to remember that we were playing the team that routinely attacked the kneel down.

 

it's not often that he gets hit when he goes down like that.

 

if he wasn't wearing the flak vest i'd be worried. if he was a dumb runner and didn't take a dive before the big hit came, i'd be worried.

 

but he's protecting his head and the ball and his legs. i'd much rather him do it that way and do it well than do it the "right" way if it's not natural to him and make a mistake that causes injury.

[KJ89]

His slide rocks. He's protecting himself more than if he slid feet first, and also protecting the ball and potentially gaining yardage.

[HsvPantherFan]

I've already watched one Auburn quarterback get his shoulder broken in multiple places by landing head first.   Zorn tried everything with Jason to teach him to slide feet first and never could.   Even brought in a kid's slip and slide to practice.   I still think, though, there is more of a risk of Cam tearing an acl/mcl getting his foot caught in the turf than of a defender breaking his collar bone by landing on his shoulders.

 

[rayzor]

I've already watched one Auburn quarterback get his shoulder broken in multiple places by landing head first.   Zorn tried everything with Jason to teach him to slide feet first and never could.   Even brought in a kid's slip and slide to practice.   I still think, though, there is more of a risk of Cam tearing an acl/mcl getting his foot caught in the turf than of a defender breaking his collar bone by landing on his shoulders.

 

 

notice who that is hitting campbell up high?

 

[rayzor]

anyone know how brian hoyer was put on IR this year?

 

 

excerpt from a blog from a few years back (2006) that makes a lot of sense:

 

If a QB takes off running, he can end the play at any point by sliding feet first. When a QB slides feet first he is down immediately, the ball is spotted at the point where the QB started the slide, and no one may touch him. It sounds like a nice idea in theory, but in practice it exposes the QB to more dangerous hits, and it puts his legs in an awkward position.

When a WR catches a pass and knows that he will be hit, he usually goes into the "fetal position." He goes down as fast as he can, curled up, with his back exposed to contact. Almost everyone reacts this way if they know that they will be hit, and as is the case with most instincts, there are good reasons for this. It minimizes the head's exposure to danger. By getting low the body makes it more likely that the assailer will miss altogether, and if he does make contact much of his leverage will be lost. If a player suspects that he will be hit, this is his best defense.

The slide rule, on the other hand, puts the player in a very vulnerable position. The QB's entire front, including his head, is exposed to contact, and due to the fact that any slide will have your lower body on the ground first, your upper body will stay off the ground longer, allowing for bigger hits to more vulnerable areas.

Sliding also exposes QBs to a higher risk of non-contact injury. The feet first slide is sometimes an awkward motion. In baseball, where sliding is commonplace, sliding injuries are also routine. Milwaukee Brewer Geoff Jenkins once lost an entire season when he slid into third too hard and broke his ankle. Pulled muscles, ripped tendons and ligaments, and broken bones are also an all too common outcome of sliding. Football players are probably at greater risk as they tend to be larger, their pads make them top-heavy, and they play certain games on artificial turf (which has admittedly gotten better).

Ah, but the slide eliminates the contact risk, you say. Well, that's the intention, but this rule is in conflict with reality. Sometimes the QB does slide with no potential tacklers around, but more often than not, the QB will slide and the defenders will be forced to pull up, spur of the moment. I'm just estimating, but I'd wager that over 70% of QB slides still end in some sort of contact. This makes sense as no one can read minds and just because a QB decides to slide does not mean that the defender will manage to pull up in time.

Trent Green, for example, ended up with a concussion because he was hit while sliding. It is likely that, had he simply curled up or even dove helmet first that he would have been just fine.

http://electriccommentary.blogspot.com/2006/12/dangerous-nfl-slide-rule.html

 

[Kakarot]

Yea, after reading that article, fug sliding feet first. Cam is fine doing what he's doing. Cam protects himself from those big hits. There been a couple times when I thought Cam could get 2-3 more yards on a run, but he's went down to protect himself. I'm fine with it.

[brainless wuss]

I suspect it has something to do with his height and center of gravity, moment and linear acceleration.  

 

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/linear-momentum

[thefuzz]

It's actually quite funny to watch him go down.

 

I'm fine with the way he is doing it.  At least he isn't getting blasted.

[PantherFanOne]

If Cam Newton gets injured doing the head first,so called slide, he can always quote an old Frank Sinatra song.

 

Regrets, I've had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.

I planned each charted course;
Each careful step along the byway,
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

[Razeyfingers]

I cant tell you the number of times that I had a coach tell me to never ever ever EVER lead with your back.

 

 

I put the under over at 50 I think. . seriously.

[beastson]

Yall sound way too paranoid with tearing that ACL stuff lol

 

In fact with a black cat what we represent, please dont put Cam and ACL tear in the same sentence smh