Said Newton: “You come in at 5 a.m., they say, ‘You ain’t come in early enough.’ You stay til 9, they say, ‘It was time wasted.’ They see you working out, they say, ‘Well, you need to be focused on the playbook.’ You focus on the playbook, they say, ‘Well, you don’t know what you’re doing. and doing all the things right - and look at what it yielded.” Because if you’re coming in and working hard - and I applaud you for coming in at 6 a.m.
“I would get clarity on who the head coach is, how stable and impactful he is, who the GMs and owners are. “I would be very selective on what that next opportunity offers,” Cecil Sr. His father had some advice about signing with another team. Newton is 32 and remains unsigned, but he made it clear he does not believe his football career is over. His father shared his disdain for the decision. “It did not dawn on me, like, ‘Y’all releasing me?’ I was confused.
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“At that time, they told me they were going to give the reins to Mac,” Newton said. It would then steadily expand to other platforms (including Mac, Android, Android Wear and the Apple Watch) over the years, before relaunching under the new Newton Mail branding in 2016. “I’m like, ‘Yes?’ ‘Bill wants to meet with you.’ I’m like, ‘OK, cool, but Bill’s office is down here.’ They were like, ‘Oh no, he’s in here.’ That’s when I was like, ‘Oh, OK, I see what’s going on.’ ”īelichick and senior football adviser Matt Patricia were in the room. “I walked in, and they were like, ‘Oh hold on, Cam, Cam, Cam,’ ” Newton recalled. But about 10 minutes after getting dropped off, Newton texted his assistant to come back and pick him up because he had been released. His assistant dropped him off at the facility around 8 a.m. Newton described the day he was released. If they would have given him the starting role, they knew the perception it would have had, if the success didn’t come.”Īs for the possibility that the Patriots begin the season with Newton as the starter and allow him to show what he can do in three or four games before reevaluating? Newton shook his head.ĥ. “Mac Jones didn’t beat me out,” Newton said. However, Newton said, Jones “would have been uncomfortable,” if he were his backup. Newton believes he could have had success as a starter - his father says the Patriots would have gone 5-0 to open the season - but he also made it clear he would have been fine being the second-string quarterback, assisting Jones through his rookie season. When you bring a Cam Newton to your facility, when you bring a Cam Newton to your franchise, people are interested by the mere fact of, ‘Who is he? Why does he wear his hair? Why does he talk? Why does he act? Why does he perform?’ All these questions.” “The reason why they released me is because, indirectly, I was going to be a distraction, without being the starter. Newton said he would have accepted a backup role, but he believes he was released because he was “going to be a distraction.” He proved that he can be productive, and he will be productive.”Ĥ. Newton added later: “ is a well-deserving player. I think when they picked him, they wanted to find out a couple of things, but one of the things they wanted to find out is, ‘Is he capable of leading this offense to be productive?’ ” “They’re going to win football games with Mac Jones,” he said. Still, Newton had nothing but positive remarks for Jones, and expressed the utmost confidence in the rookie’s ability to succeed. He did acknowledge that learning New England’s offense was initially a big adjustment because of the way the Patriots operate their system, saying “30 of 32 teams don’t run this philosophy.”
Newton maintained that there was a collaborative environment within the quarterback room, something he and the rest of the quarterbacks had said all training camp. “What can he teach me when it’s coming at him faster than it was coming at me?” Newton pushed back heavily on the notion that Jones was teaching him the playbook.įormer Patriots linebacker Rob Ninkovich recently raised the idea on his podcast. “There were times I felt I could have scrambled, but I’m saving myself for the season,” he said.ģ. Newton played 39 snaps in the preseason, completing 14 of his 21 passes for 162 yards, a touchdown, and an interception. He thought he fared well in the preseason, but explained how his skill set, particularly his ability to run the ball, could not really shine during that time. While Newton started noticing signs of change, he also noted nothing changed in terms of how the team treated him. “That’s where they did a good job of disguising it.” “Even though I was starting, that doesn’t necessarily mean nothing,” he said. PATRIOTS is a registered trademark of the Patriots Wire LLC.During practices, even though Newton led off every team drill and started each preseason game, he estimated he got two reps to Jones’s 10. This site is neither endorsed, nor sponsored by, nor affiliated with Patriots Wire or NFL Properties LLC. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy.
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