Cam Newton Brings Out The Worst In Everyone

[Cary Kollins]

thread title is prophetic

[KendrickPanther]

This article is sloppy. This is a topic that deserves a well written and well thought out article and Deadspin did not deliver. Reading it was a chore. He kind of vaguely called the media racist but he wasn't specific enough. The only writer he pulled out was Nawrocki which anyone who follows the draft could have pulled from memory. My biggest problem with this article is it didn't receive the time and detail it deserved. I've seen Huddlers put together better long form commentaries on the media.

[RoaringRiot]

I have listed your qualities and even let you know how sweet you are and you still call me names?

 

I said "trick everyone into thinking you're a moron".  Translation = making us think that when really you aren't.  Stop trying to bait me into an argument.  Just read the article next time and save us all this trouble.  

[Icege]

Can we rename this thread to "ITT Watch some asshole make an asshole out of themselves"?

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[Keep Steve]

I said "trick everyone into thinking you're a moron". Translation = making us think that when really you aren't. Stop trying to bait me into an argument. Just read the article next time and save us all this trouble.

you're right. I think part of the problem is that I was reading and typing on my phone while on the interstate while dipping, eating and drinking coffee. Not to mention the fact that I am still drunk from last night.

[Kevin Greene]

I miss the days of newspaper when you could line the bottom of the bird cage.

[KissMyConverse]

 

thread title is prophetic

 

Indeed.

[updownsigma]

Once again, sports media mixes up cause and effect. "The Panthers won because Newton matured." Not "Gee its easier to seem less miserable when your team is winning." Cam didn't have maturity issues in 2011 when he first joined the Panthers, and he hasn't magically matured since then. He's still essentially the same person. He did learn to lead a team this year, which I think is something very different, because I don't think winning and QB leadership automatically go together like ESPN likes to pretend they do. (Flacco and the Ravens or Sanchez when the Jets were good come to mind as examples of winning teams where the QB wasn't one of the main "team leaders.")

 

Similarly, it really is hilarious how the media has completely flipped perception of RG3, going from portraying him as a well spoken likable guy to a spoiled brat. I don't think he magically became a brat over 12 months; we just didn't see that side of him in 2012. If anything, his season should show that people don't change over the course of one season, only circumstances do.

 

That being said, can't wait Kaepernick to demand a $20M/year contract, put the 9ers in salary "kap" hell, lose all the talent around him, go 7-9, and have the media poo all over him when he inevitably acts like a douchebag in pressers!

 

Edit: when I say sports media, I'm not referring to the Deadspin article, if that wasn't clear.

[rayzor]

you're right. I think part of the problem is that I was reading and typing on my phone while on the interstate while dipping, eating and drinking coffee. Not to mention the fact that I am still drunk from last night.

driving while doing all this? 

 

you should stop.

 

you are a threat to humanity. 

 

not even kidding.

[Keep Steve]

driving while doing all this?

you should stop. Joke relating to my reading comprehension or lack thereof.

you are a threat to humanity.

not even kidding.

Joke in response to my reading comprehension being questioned. I don't even use tobacco products.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

Smelled the damage control from the topic list

[TheRed]

Even our players are sick of it, I was very glad to hear Greg Olsen's comments about the "maturity" narrative late last year.

[Keep Steve]

you're right. I think part of the problem is that I was reading and typing on my phone while on the interstate while dipping, eating and drinking coffee. Not to mention the fact that I am still drunk from last night.

Just to be clear I wasn't really doing this. I'm sorry to offend anyone. I didn't think anyone would think I was serious.

[TheRumGone]

if we are being honest. Cam is cocky, and there is not one fuging thing wrong with that in his chosen profession. it has made him the success he is today.

 

go behind closed doors and see how Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Philip Rivers, Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers act. They are the best of the best in the hardest sport in the world.

 

It is all a media game. It's not "maturation" it's just learning the media game. Cam figured that out, when before he could not give a fug. (which was refreshing to me tbh)