For the first time in 11 years, he started an NFL-free season Cam Newton in a list. Your free agent status may not change soon either.
No team has seriously considered adding Newton as a backup, notes Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. The ten-year veteran quarterback confirmed Friday that he is not thinking about retiring, but an injury may be needed to cause a reappearance of Newton.
Newton, 32, said he was “absolutely” surprised that the Patriots would cut him off, but said the team would have made the same decision if he had not been forced to spend five days outside the Patriots facilities. New England due to what the organization called COVID-19-. related misunderstanding. Instead of giving the high-profile pin his backup concert, the Pats released Newton, who said Friday that he would have agreed to continue as Mac Jones‘backup.
“If they had asked me, ‘Cam, we’ll give the computer to Mac, you’ll be the second chain; we hope you are even though some will guide you throughout this term. “I would have said, ‘Absolutely.’”Newton said during a YouTube Live video, via Mike Reiss of ESPN.com. “But listen, the truth of the matter is this: [Jones] it would have been uncomfortable.
“… Mac Jones didn’t beat me. But it would have been a distraction. If they had given him the initial role, they would have known the perception he would have had if success had not come.“.
Although Newton has never been an NFL backup, he struggled in 2020 and signed on to get money at the backup level earlier this year. The former MVP ranked 29th in the 2016-19 accumulated QBR. The Cowboys and Washington said last week that they were not interested in Newton, and there is still no team related to the former Pro Bowler.
Newton is not vaccinated either, which is another complication for any team interested in adding it as a backup. While NFL protocols for unvaccinated players meant a five-day period away from the Pats, Newton explained his side of the misunderstanding that drove Jones to first-team practice late last month. The medical appointment outside the city of Newton was for a second opinion on Lisfranc’s injury which ended his 2019 season and required surgery in December of that year.
“This had nothing to do with vaccination. They gave me permission to go there. I have a second opinion. That was the last time I felt I would have a chance to get a second opinion. ” Newton said on the foot issue. “It doesn’t mean that the staff with the Patriots wasn’t consistent in telling me everything I needed to know, but having four eyes is better than having two, in my opinion. It wasn’t that I had any problems or pain. I just wanted to do a checkup with the person who essentially diagnosed me with Lisfranc. I felt compelled to return to the registration rate with a six-month review.
“I crossed all the lines; I ticked all the boxes; I splashed all over my “I” and then to find out I had to sit down, that’s when I felt like I was wrapped up because “everyone told me to leave”. It was not like that [the Patriots said], ‘Cam, you know if you go there, you’re taking your risk“.
Regardless of how the maintenance of Newton’s Pats was involved, in recent years it has seen its stocks dwindle considerably. The former Heisman winner runs out of time to get his career back on track. But by confirming that retirement was not on the table, Newton will surely come to the surface when quarterback injuries occur this season.
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