Here is Chris Saunders reviewing Cam Newton's response to losing the Super Bowl.
Article by Chris Saunders
When Cam Newton
arrived in the Bay Area last Sunday, his Versace pants made him the talk of the
nation. When Newton leaves, he’ll still be the talk, but for all the wrong
reasons.
What Cam Newton
showed everyone in his post game conference was his immaturity and willingness
to representative of his team!
Furthermore; immature is the only word to describe his behavior in the
post game press conference. I didn’t expect to see him dabbing or wearing
flashy clothes, or even having his classic million dollar smile; but I didn’t
expect to see him acting like a baby. He wore an Under Armor hoodie over his
head and he moped while answering questions. Does this sound familiar to
anyone?
It’s the same Cam
Newton with the towel over his head, sitting on the bench as the Panthers lost
yet another game a couple of years ago. It was the Cam Newton that he himself
called immature. “I was very immature,” Newton told Yahoo Sports back in 2012.
“I’ll be the first one to tell you, the pouting and the moping, I kind of
overdid it; I was a bad teammate.” Newton made these comments after Sunday’s
Super Bowl loss to the Broncos. What’s truly sad and it’s bewildering to know
if Newton realizes this, he wasn’t just a bad teammate, he was an embarrassment
to the team and the city. He was an embarrassment to everyone who stood for
him. He was an embarrassment for everyone who defended his dabbing and sign
snatching. Correspondingly, his own father; whom was on “First Take” said days
from the biggest game of his son’s career that, “I pull him in my laboratory and polish him off at the end
of every season, tell him what works, what doesn't work.”
In the press
conference, Newton gave mostly one-word answers, kept his head down and barely
looked at the reporters. “They just played better than us,” he said. “What you
want me to say?” After scratching out a few more barely audible
comments about how the Broncos outplayed them, Newton abruptly walked away,
saying “I’m done.” My reaction after I saw that was one word. WOW!
Given these
points, while I do understand Newton and the Panthers just lost the Super Bowl;
but common Cam! Why is it that your teammates can sit there and answer
questions? Cornerback Josh Norman cried
on the sideline as shown by CBS, but even he in the press conference did
respond to the medias questions and he gave thoughtful answers. As did Tight
End Greg Olsen, Line Backer Thomas
Davis, and linebacker Luke Kuechly. Kuechly held his head high and praised the
Panthers’ fantastic season. He talked about the great play of the defense in
the Super Bowl. “It stings,” he said regarding the loss. “We accomplished a lot
of what we wanted to do this year. We won the division. We checked a couple of
boxes, but we just weren’t able to get this last one checked off”
There is no doubt that Cam Newton had a
fantastic season leading his team to a NFC Title, and even the Super Bowl. What
Cam has yet to learn is how to be a true leader and role model accepting defeat
with as much grace as the enthusiastic joy he displays when he wins. This is
when we can say he is not only a leader but a true role model for many young
athletes who watch and admire him as a player. My advice to Cam is this..“If
you don’t win, lose with class”
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