Demands? Whats next, hes going to have the veterans carry his pads? He can have number 2 because that is where he belongs on the depth chart, and his career will wind up a big number 2.
lol the wildcat, howd that work for Pat White? Auburn's offense wouldn't work in the NFL, coordinators would figure out how to stop it, and NFL players are too out of shape to run the hurry up like Auburn. Look at the first game the Dolphins beat the Patriots with the wildcat, and then look at the second game, didn't do anything. BTW if you have ever seen Newton throw, its about on the level that Ronnie Brown had when in the wildcat, he cant fit passes into tight spaces, can't make NFL throws, cant anticipate receivers getting open, so he might as well be a runningback, because he can only throw to wide open receivers, except that he is 6'5 which will make him more prone to knee injuries. And as big as he is, he still doesn't like contact. He isn't a physical runner like Tebow, when he got dinged up in the national championship game he ran timid afterwards, they looked at his back after the game but it wasn't anything serious, just the normal pains of getting hit. If he doesn't like being hit in college imagine someone like Cushing or Clay Matthews hitting him.
The NFL is making offenses more favorable to spread offenses, but at the end of the day, you have to pass to win, and since he doesn't have elite speed he won't be able to put together many highlight runs without the threat of passing. Personally I think the 4.59 time is BS, I think hes slower than that. I don't even think he will have the success of Young or Vick because coordinators weren't prepared for that. Over time these guys got figured out, Vick wound up with Reid who has a talent for making black quarterbacks looking good, but over the season he got figured out, plus he has good receivers like DeSean Jackson, who do the Panthers have? an aging Steve Smith who wants out. He knows hes not going to look good with Newton at qb.
But you could be correct, he will probably have a few games of running around against horrible coal black defenses. I really don't think he cares about being a successful quarterback even if he wanted to, the same thing that happened with Russel, who would be mediocre if he put in the work, like Young who actually cared about playing. But I think he will handle failure the same way Young, he will flip out. He wants to be an "entertainer" and "icon" but I don't think he knows what type of work ethic it will take to be one as a quarterback. Auburn's offense is simplistic, a high school offense compare to the NFL, a spread guru that has a similar offense as Auburn said he could install his offense in 3 days. Hes never lost a college game and doesn't know what its like to face that kind of criticism. My guess is, after a few highlight plays, nfl coordinators adjusting their schemes to stop him and taking real NFL hits after scrambling, and he turns into a poor man's David Garrard, one read and then dump it off to the runningback or tight end.
But I could see this scenario after those things happen : in order to not look bad, he will probably play up some minor injury and take himself out of the game, then Clausen will come in with a year of experience, and just might show that he has the ability to be an NFL quarterback, the thing they drafted him last year to be. It could wind up like the Brooks/Delhomme situation, which is the best scenario for Clausen. Delhomme showed that he could play when Brooks was out with an injury, Haslett put Brooks back in later in the season even though Delhomme was doing great and Brooks was still injured (which leads me to believe it wasn't that bad). They got rid of Delhomme and he took the Panthers to the Superbowl the next year, Brooks was out of the league a few years later. At one point, pretty much all of his backups were starting while he was out of the league, Bulger, Delhomme, and JT O Sullivan.
Or Newton could have a legit injury, come back and suck and have the msm constantly talk about how it weren't for the injury hed be a pro bowl qb, kind of like Daunte Culpepper after his knee injury.
If Carolina really wants something out of Newton they should put him as a pass catching tight end.
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