Cam Newton Brings Out The Worst In Everyone

[Mr. Scot]

Cam is better and younger than Andrew Luck

 

Cam Newton - born May 11, 1989

 

Andrew Luck - born September 12, 1989

[frash.exe]

  

http://deadspin.com/the-big-book-of-black-quarterbacks-1517763742/1524699699/+DeadspinStaff

We'll see how long we can keep this unlocked and in the Panthers section. The article pulls no punches, and it shouldn't.

I made a commentary in this very phenomenon of journalism a few months ago

Dude, you know what the best part is about a qb you initially doubted on a team that's finally winning? You can just manufacture some bullshit about him "proving himself worthy" in some way you thought he wasn't paying off on so that it actually looks like you were still right all along, which would suggest that you actually know what you're talking about! That's like when people rag on cam being immature in his first two years, instead of understanding the process of learning the game and the external variables like defense that have nothing to do with cam, we can say he matured just now, and use some anecdote we found that probably really meant little to back our point, thus confirming everything we initially said about newton as truth!

  

To me it's as if people think maturity is just a light switch that goes on at a certain age, and though it might seem as if, it's really a long process that takes time and could even possibly be irrelevant in the story of cam's ascent. It has more to do with the fact that the defense has gotten gradually better and that the two years of experience that cam had behind him in 2013 that he didn't have in 2011 helps him make plays when it counts now, which is pretty much what people like me have been saying all along about cam since before we drafted him.

On a maturity level in the traditional sense, he's probably not changed that much since 2011. And of course his perceived lack of maturity in his first two years was overstated. He's a competitor, and the way the panthers lost games then was absolutely frustrating. His increasingly masterful grasp of the pro game is what is paying off right now.

The fact that it's an accepted practice to have your character judged by pedantic hack sports writers/draftniks/combine rats who think they can project how well you will do in the NFL by analyzing your idiosyncrasies and soooo many football nuts who mark out to terms like "lunch pail guy" buy into it all is pathetic

[Porn Shop Clerk]

 

 

On the surface, it's typical brainless post facto masturbation about athletic success through maturity.

 

best line in the arcticle

[RoaringRiot]

I made a commentary in this very phenomenon of journalism a few months ago

The fact that it's an accepted practice to have your character judged by pedantic hack sports writers/draftniks/combine rats who think they can project how well you will do in the NFL by analyzing your idiosyncrasies and soooo many football nuts who mark out to terms like "lunch pail guy" buy into it all is pathetic

Nice job. Right on it.

[teeray]

The "Cam has matured" narrative is just a scapegoat for the media.

It is so they can say "No no he is different than before. It definitely is not the fact that I was wrong all along."

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The "Cam has matured" narrative is just a scapegoat for the media.

It is so they can say "No no he is different than before. It definitely is not the fact that I was wrong all along."

 

Exactly.