Super Bowl 50

[TyWebb]

TyWebb, that is an interesting look, but I think we'd need to see the video. Ware got there FAST -- is he in reality disengaged from that blocker and launching toward the ball? I don't know. Maybe.

However, what that does show is what a lost cause the game was at that point -- if Newton falls on the ball, the Panthers are looking at fourth-and-16, and a total drive of 82 more yards on a day when they only went more than 52 yards once.

Yeah, obviously that shot is without much context of what happens before or after. Ware does get there quick, so he probably isn't as engaged as maybe it looks. All he really does is get a palm on the ball, but that palm might have disrupted the path enough to make Cam hesitate.

But I don't think you can call it a total lost cause even if he recovers the ball. It definitely doesn't look good, but looking at Fourth-and-16 down 6 with four minutes to play looks a heck of a lot better than the opposition with the ball on your 4 up 6 with four minutes left to play. It would have taken one heck of a play to convert that fourth down, and one heck of a drive to follow it up with a touchdown, but it could have happened. Instead, they didn't get a chance.

 

[TyWebb]

BREAKING: Cam would also like us to know the sky is blue.

Newton defends himself, says he's 'sore loser'

 

[Donny in his element]

The photo is misleading, though. The football is actually in the air, not on the ground at the hash mark. Ware is about 2 yards away, and almost parallel to the bouncing ball (you can see the shadow). Newton, however, is just about dead center between the hash marks -- 6-plus-yards wide. So he's three yards from the near hash mark and another yard or so to the ball itself

 

[heyabbott]

BREAKING: Cam would also like us to know the sky is blue.

Newton defends himself, says he's 'sore loser'

IS this a real article or from the Onion?

 

[LongTimeListener]

This one has been getting a lot of social media play -- when Manning left without shaking the Saints' hands.

That Time Peyton Manning Was A Bad Sport And Barely Anyone Cared

 

[Dick Whitman]

This one has been getting a lot of social media play -- when Manning left without shaking the Saints' hands.

That Time Peyton Manning Was A Bad Sport And Barely Anyone Cared

Peyton stiffed his opponents.

Cam stiffed the media.

Now you guys tell me which one the media is bound to be more upset about?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Newton didn't dive on fumble in fear of injury

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Peyton stiffed his opponents.

Cam stiffed the media.

Now you guys tell me which one the media is bound to be more upset about?

poor things

 

[LongTimeListener]

Newton didn't dive on fumble in fear of injury

Oh, that's unfortunate.

 

[BTExpress]

Peyton stiffed his opponents.

Yeah, like the time he waited an hour and a half to congratulate Ray Lewis after the heartbreaking OT playoff loss to the Ravens.

 

[Stoney]

Newton didn't dive on fumble in fear of injury

Ugh. He'd be better off refusing to talk than that explanation. Cam, it's the Super Bowl, in the Super Bowl you take the risk. Everybody else around that ball did.

But, again, I'll give him credit for being honest instead of just spouting the usual BS.

 

[LongTimeListener]

BTE, that's a Devil-like argument you're making -- you seem to be arguing something that's indisputable, that he walked off the field without shaking the Saints' hands.

I didn't get worked up about that one either, didn't really care, but it is a bit of an incongruous reaction alongside Newton's press conference.