Two other helmet-to-helmet hits on Newton didn’t draw a fine or a penalty.
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He said he doesn’t feel the need to lobby for his health, even as his teammates and coaches have done that for him. “So I can’t just point the finger and say, ‘I haven’t gotten calls, ‘ because I have”.
Despite his taking arguably more of a beating than anyone in Week 1, you won’t find Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton on the injury report heading into the second week of the National Football League season.
“My job as a quarterback is to focus on trying to dissect the San Francisco 49ers’ defense this week and to make sure that the Carolina Panthers fans are happy at the end of Sunday”. “That’s it. Winning. Winning football games”, Newton said. “We play hard and we talk about playing hard all of the time and as I said, that was a challenge”, Kubiak said. “If that’s the case, then the league is speaking out of both sides of their mouth”, Pereira said. It’s a great offseason rallying crying.
Is Cam Newton getting an unfair shake from National Football League officials simply because he is bigger than everybody else? “It sounds awesome. We got zero yards out of any of those hits”. I’m not going to rehash my beef with the lack of the officiating crew’s responsibility being questioned, but needless to say I find it deplorable that they weren’t punished for their part in this fiasco. “It’s a contact sport and we have to plan accordingly to get back to 100 percent”. Safety Darian Stewart’s helmet-to-helmet hit in the fourth quarter was probably the worst of the bunch. He also found himself wishing he’d been flagged for his hit on Newton because that might have resulted in a fine such as Stewart’s. The Newton situation was not handled properly.
Here’s the thing – I was at Super Bowl 50 so I knew this game had the makings of a good old-fashioned slug fest.
In winning the NFL’s Most Valuable Player award a year ago, Newton passed for 3,837 yards with 35 touchdown passes and 10 interceptions, and rushed for 636 yards and 10 touchdowns on the ground. “There is no doubt that everything will work out in itself”.
The NFL and the NFL Players Association each said earlier in the week they are investigating the response by medical personnel during the game after Newton absorbed multiple hits to the head.
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As most people associated with the NFL will describe it, football is a “high collision” – not high impact – sport.
