Newton fumbled twice during Sunday’s 24-10 loss, backing away from his second spill when it appeared he would have a chance to jump on the ball.
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Cam Newton wasn’t apologizing Tuesday for walking out on reporters after the Carolina Panthers’ loss in the Super Bowl 50. I would much rather have a guy who hates to lose than a guy who accepts it. The guy who accepts it, you might as well just push him out of your locker room because you don’t want him around. “This isn’t a popularity contest”.
Tell you what, if I’m a fan of the Carolina Panthers, that’s exactly what I want to see. “I don’t dive on one fumble, because the way my leg was it could have been contorted”, Newton said.
“I mean, I want to stay with the Broncos for 15 to 20 years, but money talks, right?” he said. “The truth is, I still don’t want talk to the media”. But at the end of the day, people pick… and do things of that sort. We can’t definitively state whether race played a role this time around. “My faith doesn’t make me flawless, it makes me forgiven”, Manning wrote in the book. I am happy to say that.
“I don’t think it’s fair”.
Elway, himself, probably doesn’t know who the Broncos will have under center next September, but we will all find out in about a month.
If I offended somebody, that’s cool. “It’s over, it’s done and we are going off to the 2016 season”. “We’ll let Peyton enjoy this”, Elway said after the Broncos returned to Denver for a ticker-tape parade.
Relegated to game-manager status in the playoffs, the 39-year-old Manning completed just 13 of 23 passes Sunday at Levi’s Stadium for 141 yards, with an interception and a lost fumble. I know, I know, he’s a competitor and competitors don’t take losing very well. “I’m a grown man. I can understand that”.
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Panthers coach Ron Rivera was asked about the play and whether he had discussed it with his quarterback. “I don’t know but I gave the ball back to him because he deserves it #respect”. But to say some things along the lines of that, and to say it to my face, that’s extremely different.
