Saw someone yesterday say Cam was too close to the ball, so him diving would have meant him going over the ball. That's more believable than Cam's "my leg wasn't positioned in the right way."
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Saw someone yesterday say Cam was too close to the ball, so him diving would have meant him going over the ball. That's more believable than Cam's "my leg wasn't positioned in the right way."
LOL
I've literally never seen someone not make an effort for the ball. He can make up whatever excuse he wants, but that was a cowardly move. Every other player will rip his own spleen out trying to get the loose ball...
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Compare it to the fumble recovery that Coker had in the beginning of the SEC championship game. There's no excuse for not going for the ball in that situation, it's the Super Bowl.
When I first saw the replay of Cam not going for the ball I thought that maybe Cam thought that the ball was going to be kicked or deflected out of the pile. He at least could have used that as his excuse because it's a lot more believable..
I thought the same thing, then I heard his response in the presser. He admitted that it was about not risking further injury to his leg.
I have seen quite a few guys over the years go after a fumble when they were obviously not in a good position to recover the ball. They went after it anyway and it looked like they could get seriously hurt by doing it. Cam Newton is a good enough athlete that he could have probably just reached down and quickly scooped the ball up. He just looked bad not going for it.
looks like his right leg planted awkwardly. his knee/leg took a funky twist and gave way a little so i can see in that situation not diving for the ball. it's not like he didnt want to. That little twitch of the knee kind of makes your body freeze up. But he still acted like a baby during the game. And the post game was still disrespectful to the league.
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That sums up the biggest difference between College Football & the NFL, College Football is played on pride & emotions, those college kids leaves it on the football field every game, and us College Football Fans rides those waves of emotions with them every game(same could be said about high school football as well)..
NFL players are in it for one thing & one thing only, "Money", I can't place blame on them for it cause that's how they support their families, but, it's that difference that makes College Football the absolute greatest sports on the planet bar none..
Yeah, poor little fella. He's only 6'5 245 and it was only the Superbowl. You'll get it next time, Champ. Run on along now, and go show your teammates how you are supposed to celebrate when you make a six yard run to pick up a first down.
it looked like he was only upright that close to the ball because he was tip-toeing in for the ball
Wow - had to reach into the archives to pull that one out! Good job 92
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Cam Newton is basically an emotionally immature seventh grader. I know this because I teach a bunch of emotionally immature seventh graders. They see nothing wrong with his behavior. However, these same students see nothing wrong with not following directions, and think that teachers are "mean" for making them follow rules. When they are caught doing something they aren't supposed to be doing, their first response is to deny, deny, deny, even in the face of being caught red-handed. Contrition does not exist in their world.
He thinks that being gracious in defeat is tantamount to enjoying to lose. He claims that he hates to lose, but his actions on the field during the fumble tell a different story. McElroy is right - and not just because he more than doubled Cam's Wonderlic score - about having never seen a player not dive for a fumble. A player that truly "hates to lose" breaks his neck trying to recover that fumble, and I think that this is going to be an issue with his teammates going forward. I don't think that it will be an overt situation where someone calls him out in training camp, but rather during a game when things aren't going the Panthers' way. If he throws an interception that he feels a receiver quit on, there will be fireworks.
Or, maybe Thomas Davis lights him up in training camp, and then stands over him and shows him his footlong scar.
He thinks that being gracious in defeat is tantamount to enjoying to lose. He claims that he hates to lose, but his actions on the field during the fumble tell a different story. McElroy is right - and not just because he more than doubled Cam's Wonderlic score - about having never seen a player not dive for a fumble. A player that truly "hates to lose" breaks his neck trying to recover that fumble, and I think that this is going to be an issue with his teammates going forward. I don't think that it will be an overt situation where someone calls him out in training camp, but rather during a game when things aren't going the Panthers' way. If he throws an interception that he feels a receiver quit on, there will be fireworks.
Or, maybe Thomas Davis lights him up in training camp, and then stands over him and shows him his footlong scar.
Being married to a 7th grade teacher..............
"What? What? What did I do?" is the most often phrase I hear about, every single night, for 9 months of the year.
So, yes, I would agree!
There is the nonsense you have to put up with, from the parents, of the prime offenders. But, that is another story for another time.
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