He tried to take an emotional approach after the Super Bowl, and he ended up coming off as a sore loser. He tried to take a humorous approach after a huge win over the defending champions, and he ended up coming off as a condescending sexist. Two weeks after skipping an appearance that made him come off as a coward, Cam Newton took an all-business approach and came off as...well...a deaf person, because - outside of completely mishearing it - there is no rational reason for that question to elicit that response. So my question is, at what point do we start looking at the veritable mountain of visual evidence in front of us, and just come to the conclusion that Cam Newton is far, far better with a football in his hands than he is with a microphone in his face? If a quarterback kept throwing into double coverage you'd just assume that he's terrible at reading defenses, so why don't we assume that a quarterback is terrible at reading a room when he keeps talking his way into double the (negative) coverage? We tend to let stats dictate what we expect from athletes, right? Well, how come we laugh when Blake Bortles throws another pick, but act shocked each time Cam Newton botches another press conference. Has he not been responsible for a disproportional number of them in comparison to his peers throughout his career? As far as I am concerned, Cam Newton is basically Rex Grossman....If Rex Grossman had a penchant for misspeaking instead of misfiring. He's proven, time and time again, that we should expect things to go awry when he's asked to formulate socially acceptable thoughts on the fly. Sure, it seems easy to give an empty answer like "yeah, big plays are all about timing and we need to improve on our execution", but we also think it's easy to consistently complete check downs and the failure to do so cost Brock Osweiler a starting gig that was begging to be filled. Q&A's aren't Cam's strength, so he is always going to be better at 'QB sneaks' than 'QB speaks'. I think it's about time we just accept that....or ask even more mundane questions that put him in a position to succeed.
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