For a refresher on one of the most disjointed deferences of blame you'll ever come across, here are the words of an overweight wide receiver regarding his time playing alongside an NFL MVP from earlier this week...
...and here is his way of "answering" to those words when the target of them asked for an in-person explanation for being retrospectively dragged through the mud in the media by hands that are only clean in the sense that they belong to a person that doesn't get them dirty in having a catch radius of someone half his size...
It's pretty evident that Kelvin Benjamin either misunderstands the concept of "talking the talk and walking the walk" or takes it far too literally, as his familiar failures to create separation were the actions of an angsty teen being approached by a disappointed dad after refusing to clean up a mess that he made. We don't know exactly what was said, of course, but the person who was left hanging wasn't the one that should have felt it necessary to go out of his way to smooth things over in the first place. To his "credit", for the first time maybe ever, it was Kelvin Benjamin that returned the favor in bailing out his former quarterback, as I can't say I have viewed the latter in a more favorable light than I do at this very moment. Due to his rocky past, I've never thought of Cam Newton as a "bigger man" in anything other than stature, but here I am on the verge of praising his maturity relative to how bratty and childish Kelvin Benjamin looked in trying to avoid the fight that he randomly decided to pick publicly for no apparent reason. You probably shouldn't consider Cam Newton to be an extremely prolific passer, nor should you consider him to be an incredibly accountable leader. I know I certainly don't. That said, you'd simply be flat out wrong in not viewing him as both the superior and more dedicated player in an interaction that he didn't even instigate. There's only so much that can be taken from the body language of a confrontation, but the conclusions I drew confirmed my suspicions. Kelvin Benjamin has all of the nerve, none of the shame, and the moral low ground as both a complete coward and a significantly worse teammate. For all the negativity that Cam Newton has brought on himself with his propensity to say stupid shit, he was very much the man in trying to hash things out with a bitchy little boy. If I ruthlessly ripped someone who was nothing but complimentary of me in my past unprovoked then I suppose I'd want to "move on" as quick as possible too, but that doesn't make Kelvin Benjamin's attempt at doing so any less disingenuous. It does, however, follow in line with his refusal to take any sort of responsibility for his own underwhelming actions.
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