Here’s
a bit of Monday-morning quarterbacking: Cam Newton looked off from the very
start of last night’s game, literally, as if he were sick. By the time of his postgame news conference,
Newton definitely was out of sorts. An
ebullience borne of fifteen regular-season victories turned into a reticence
the product of Super Bowl defeat.
As
ever, the danger here is making things racial.
Let me put that to rest by saying it looked like Newton was channeling
his inner Jay Cutler, circa 2011-2014, for the cameras. The good news is that Newton can change. By that I mean accept the consequences of
defeat by facing an ever curious—and irritating—media, no matter how stupid the
questions. I don’t know what comes
first, showing leadership while on the field, which Newton failed to (he seemed
to be in a Cutler-like fog), or later with reporters. But if one happens, so will the other.
One other thing: I’d
trade Cutler for Newton in a heartbeat.
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