Clearly Newton felt the need to address his actions during the fateful presser.
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The prevailing logic, though, was that Newton simply didn’t want to get injured, and diving into a pile of linemen would put his safety at risk.
“I can’t see myself being with any other team”, Miller said on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
39-year-old Manning – the NFL’s all-time leader in passing yards and touchdown passes – earned a career second Super Bowl ring – his first was with the Indianapolis Colts in 2006. He’s not trying to be anybody but himself.
“I am who I am. I know who I am and I’m not about to conform to anybody’s expectations, because yours or anybody else’s expectations will never exceed mine”.
“I listen to Christian rap and I have a guy I listen to named Eshon Burgundy”, wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery said. “To me, to sit here and say, if you look at it, if you look at the performance in that Super Bowl, they are in the argument to be one of the best ever”. I never proclaimed that I was ideal.
Recover that ball, punt and surely a Peyton Manning running on “E” would have given the ball right back to Newton with another chance to win. I fumbled, that’s fine.
“I had a lot of time to go back and play everything back”. “I’m on record as being a sore loser”, he told the Charlotte Observer. We’ve got all these people that’s condemning and saying, ‘Ah man, I wouldn’t have done that, ‘ this and the third…I’m not here to win a popularity contest.
Newton said he doesn’t care what’s said about him because he works for his team and the fans. “But it is worth noting that another quarterback once demonstrated poor sportsmanship after a Super Bowl loss as well, but didn’t face almost as much criticism”.
The reporters present asked very bad questions, then repeated them some more.
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“Hooray for Cam, hooray at last. I am my own person”. They know what’s real. I have a standard that I set for myself. “The truth of the matter is we both played on the surface”. Rivera admitted that the team was down after the loss and that they needed to rebuild that swagger, to regain their confidence.
