Cam Newton released by Patriots
 

I mean, he was pretty bad last year - but outright release? Wow.


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING NEWS: The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Patriots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Patriots</a> have released Cam Newton. Mac Jones is the starting QB in New England. <a href="https://t.co/3qE1qu6xqC">https://t.co/3qE1qu6xqC</a></p>&mdash; Jim McBride (@globejimmcbride) <a href="https://twitter.com/globejimmcbride/status/1432706144557051924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

LMAO

gonna be a shit show in NE

Probably had to do with his wardrobe and dancing during practice, duh.

Superman! is available for parties

Hoyers probably a better back up for macky poo. Both are lacking natural talent, and Cam probably would rather try to take over when someone goes down than ride the pine.

Yasir Durant just proved to be too much

He will be a Bronco before the end of the day. Expect Knowmo shortly after that.

Welcome to Denver LMAO

We sign this piece of shit yet?

Rumblings on Twitter that his lack of vaccination and mis-steps regarding COVID protocols last week led to this.

Belichick has no patience for guys who put themselves before the team.

All of his hats are made out of wedding cake fondant.

No thanks.

Denver could have drafted Mac Jones.

Mac Jones that good or Cam been that bad?

Are you sure about that? Mac Jones already looks superior to current day Cam.

Weird. All the Patriot reporters kept talking up how healthy and recovered Cam was....

Welcome to DENVER! COMMON DOWN!

Or he get signed by Houston........

As poor as so many teams are inside the 5 yard line running the ball these days, I almost wonder if someone will ever take a chance on Cam just as a specialty guy inside the 10 or whatever. He's pretty damn dangerous there.

Wow. He must be really bad because Jones didn't look like much.

Hope PMII makes it through the cuts.

Mac Jones is fine as far as rookie QB's go but because of his limited physical traits he will take a few years to get up to what he is supposed to be.

Mental trait QB's take longer.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

probably their best move really, cam sucks

Surprised that coach and QB combo lasted this long.

Texans boners are throbbing.

Guess calling him Mac-n-cheese didn’t work out so well for cut. I mean cam.

The latest edition of Cigar Aficionado has Cam on the cover and he's the subject of the main profile. It went on and on about how awesome he is, and I kept thinking, Has this been sitting on the shelf since 2016?

Rumor is he has turf-toe

He had the highest PFF rating in preseason history beating only Patrick Mahomes

Cam? Who knew?

Cam Newton isn't horrible, but he def needs a coach who know how to use mobile QB's and dumbed down passing game.

Honestly the more I think about it Texans make so much sense. Their Head Coach worked with Lamar Jackson.

Hope he doesn’t go back to jacking laptops.

Yes.

Cam looks awful (still).

Jones looked good - saw all the processing strengths we saw at Alabama and his passes had a little more zip than I expected.

I don't think he's a superstar in the making, but he's a quality quarterback. On the low end I think he ends up Kurt Cousins, high end maybe something like Matt Ryan (normal Matt Ryan, not the MVP version).

He's exactly the kind of guy BB is going to prefer because he'll run the offense as designed and do a solid job of it. Plays won't fail because of Jones like they would because of Newton.

How does that work, exactly?

Cam isn’t vaccinated so he had to go

Or wait until he catches covid midseason

He's washed up.

What was his PFF preseason grade? That's what matters the most.

War Eagle on the loose.

Cam has always been about Cam. Not the team.

LMAO


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Donkos on line 1.

Add to all of this Cam probably isn't worth the distractions he creates just to be the team's backup.

Teddy Pendergrass is actually better!

Better by deletion.

Maybe but would think that Bridgewater is a more experienced Mac Jones at this point.

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Cam single handedly lost them 2-3 games last year. I think this is the right call for them.

Agreed, and Mac Jones would've been better still.

Probably going to try and sneak him on their PS.

Jones had a great pre-season and Cam looked arguably better than Jones. Don't think that's it.

And you run into the same problem you always run into when you have running QBs as your backup.

When you have to scrap your base offense if the backup comes in, that's a bad backup. You want your backup to be able to come in and at least run a watered down version of the offense you've been running.

That's why a guy like RGIII could latch on in Baltimore as a backup but not really anywhere else. And why a guy like Chase Daniel or Matt Cassel (or Chad Henne for that matter) could last for 10 years as a backup - because they will go in there and run the offense.

Cam's not a useful backup because he can't step in for Jones and run the same system. They have to rebuild the offense to use him. That just doesn't work.

More like Mac is a rookie. Cam is not going to improve. If they are close right now might as well play the guy who is probably your future.

If your going to do that might as well cut the guy who will be a distraction and give him a chance to play elsewhere. Best for everyone around.

I agree. They were right to move on from Cam but it's not because Cam was bad in camp.

He would definitely be an upgrade in Indy, Philly, New Orleans and Houston.

Guess there are two considerations for a backup. One short term in game. Which the above might be true. Think Cam could be all right not great.

The other is Multiple games. You want a QB come in and be able to play .500 and give yourself a chance to win in 4 game stretch if you have to change the game plan so be it. the Saints did this last year. Cam probably does that. But the big thing is that I doubt Cam has the personality to be happy in a backup role. Sort of like Kap. Eventually if he is not starting it just is not going to work. To much division in the team unity.

Would be a good back up to Mahomes...

Henne ain't getting any younger.

Indy? Not if Wentz returns shortly.

New Orleans -- I still think Jamies will have a good year and Cam isn't going to fit into what Payton wants to do offensively at all.

Philly - Maybe. Might even be a quality backup option for Hurts.

Houston - What does Cam Newton actually do well that Tyrod Taylor doesn't? They're both underneath passers these days who's legs present their biggest strengths. I'm not sure Cam actually would be an upgrade over Taylor. I'm pretty sure they're 6 in one hand, half dozen in the other. And Taylor has always been smart with the football if nothing else. And fairly precise underneath. Newton's not either of those things.

I'm just not sure what Cam Newton, with his diminished arm strength and scattershot accuracy, actually brings to the table anymore. The risk/reward was always in his favor when he could break a run or fire a bomb downfield, but he's more of a power runner when he takes off now and his arm doesn't stretch the field anymore.

What's he actually do well at this point in his career? Or even average? He takes more off the table than he brings to it anymore.

It’s risky to bring in a back-up that potentially could be better than your starter.

Who really cares, Cam has been a broke dick for a couple of years now.

Carolina really ****ed him over.

Broke dick prima donna. Hell to the ****ing no. Let that turd go ruin another franchise. the faid sound like an appropriate fit.

Even in a multiple game situation, you'd ideally have the same sort of offense.

Afterall, you've brought players into this system that complement it and/or built the system around those players.

If your offense is designed to capitalize on a certain supporting cast and your backup is better served with a completely different supporting cast, you're doing yourself and that supporting cast a disservice. And it's only heightened if it's over 4 games. If your backup is 80% of your starter but the rest of the offense can play the same style of game, then your overall decline isn't extreme. But if your backup is, let's say, 90% as good as your starter (in a vacuum) but the rest of your offense is now 80% as productive because you're playing an entirely different style, it's a net loss.

Your backup needs to complement the roster. That's what Henne does here. But would Cam Newton be a useful backup here? No, not at all, because the entire supporting cast would have to play differently to complement Newton. 3 quarter or 3 games, I'd take the guy that complements the rest of my squad over someone who needs players tailored to fit his style 100 times out of 100.

Cam was an insurance policy. Now that they’ve seen enough of Jones to like him (every preseason drive he led turned into points), when you add:

- Cam’s unvaccinated state and protocol “misstep”
- Injury possibility as a running QB
- Distraction
- Totally different style of play making it hard to build a team around both
- Age
- Ceiling

It was shocking an hour ago but makes more and more sense.

Exactly.

If Jones just clearly couldn't play yet, then the twin-tight, possession WR offense they put together in the off-season could be massaged to fit Newton over 17 games. They could've asked those guys to be physical and work with a strict ground/pound system.

But when it was clear that Jones could play, they saw that they may be able to pivot to the style they played when Gronk/Hernandez were there and they had those underneath options out wide. Obviously not to the same extreme as they did with Brady, but they could use that baseline.

If they HAD to go with Newton, they could've made it work. But once it became apparent that they didn't have to, there was no need to retain him.

But in this situation they have the personnel to compliment Cam. They ran the same offense they would use last year and this preseason. So it is not going to be a completely foreign concept. Besides I think this day and age teams can adept pretty quickly, the Saints ran Taysem Hill in last year went 3-0. Would be the same type of situation.

****ing no.
Not now. Not ever.

WTF!

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Watch NE win that division over the Bills with Mac Jones at QB.

No surprise. He's cooked. His arm just doesn't look the same. And he's lost any kind of swagger or interest.

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ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL

Cams a ****ing headcase.

He’s always been overrated. Whatever talent he had in his arm never translated fully to the field. He had one elite season which ended with a low effort play in the Super Bowl defining it, and has not really had a remarkable career otherwise. And of course everyone will point to the lack of maturity, even now toward the end of his career. There was a lot of potential there that was never realized.

If Cam was willing to play for the veteran's minimum and would not be a distraction and would follow all protocols... he would be an interesting option as a Taysom Hill-type gadget player for situational plays such as short yardage and goal line.

But he does not meet any of those qualifications so no thanks.

Fortunately for the AFC West. The General sells insurance, he does not buy it.

Uhhhh have you watched him play lately?
He’s horrible.


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Did Denver claim him yet??? LMAO

Has he signed with bishop sycamore yet?

That's wild. Bill doing Bill things. No idea.

The Patriots taking out the garbage.