MVP Cam Newton

Love Him Or Hate Him, It's one or the other

Common Sense,
not in the NFL front office. 

Cam Newton might have the athletic ability that the NFL has never seen before, but he is like so many other quarterbacks. The thing is, Cam Newton and Tom Brady are identical twins, you either love them or hate them. Tom Brady is either the best ever or the biggest cheater ever. It is no different with Cam Newton, you think it is awesome that someone can go out and have fun playing football, or you think he is a cocky arrogant player. However, we have to remember, when someone is having fun, it comes at someone else’s expense. As people, winning is easy, it is simple to win and let other people talk about you when you are having fun, but losing is not the same. Losing means that someone is having fun at your expense, and how you act during that is what makes up your character. If you talk the talk you must walk the walk both through the good and bad. Newton’s famous saying all year was that if you don’t like it then stop me, well Denver did that in a dominant way.

After the dominance from the Denver Broncos defense, Cam Newton gave a very short post-game press conference, which was not even three minutes long. After spending hours with the media throughout the week talking about everything under the sun and doing it with a smile on his face, the post game was anything but that. This creates two opinions, haters will cry that he is fake and lovers will say you have never been in his shoes before. However, the biggest problem, might be the one reoccurring problem throughout the NFL season and that’s the NFL itself. Newton’s press conference was right next to the Broncos press conference. You can clearly hear Denver’s defenders saying they did what they wanted to do and they wanted to force Newton to throw the ball because they didn’t think he could beat them. Not saying Newton should have left the press conference like he did, but do you really blame him.

It was a perfect ending for the NFL, after having nothing but problems all season long. Problems started with Tom Brady having his deflate gate suspension removed and followed by the Patriots owner calling out the NFL for how they handled the situation. Then you had the Bengals and Steelers in round one of their two-round bout. Next the highly criticized Odell Beckham Jr and Josh Norman UFC fight that took place in the later part of the season and how that was handled. Then round two of the Bengals and Steelers during Wild Card weekend where the NFL used the same referees that lost control of the first game, only to see the same thing happen again. Then the NFL forgot about all the things that needed to happen for teams to move and said if the owners approve the move it trumps everything else. Now putting the winning defense and losing quarterback right next to each other in the post-game Super Bowl press conference. Nobody could have thought that would be ok. One team is celebrating and the other is devastated. 

Although Newton should look back at this moment and learn from it, suck up his pride for five minutes and give a reasonable interview like most losing quarterbacks do. The young MVP will get his chance if this team stays together, he might even get several chances very soon. However, i

f he didn’t walk out of the interview, we might not be talking about this, but for the NFL, it ended perfectly with no common sense involved in another decision.

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