text: Cam Newton to Patriots: What are his injuries, why didnt other teams sign him, how will Pats offense look? – CBS Sports – ALFA SOURCE PAGE
  Bill Belichick signing a former No. 1 general choice and one-time NFL MVP for a veteran minimum deal in the middle of June feels a little too on brand, but considering he had his pet dog Nike draft a Division II hybrid defensive back linebacker with his first choice after trading out of the first round, maybe the Patriots coach is simply feeling himself this offseason
  . Cam Newton is now a member of the Patriots, a surprisingly obvious conclusion for the last few months. The Patriots plainly think in Jarrett Stidham, however Newton makes more sense as a replacement for Tom Brady. If he stops working to live up to the lofty standards set by the 20-year Patriots quarterback, it implies one of 2 things: Newton wasn't healthy sufficient to carry out or Stidham is good enough to vanquish a healthy Cam for the QB1 role. Neither of those things is a loss for the Pats at the
  rate tag. This is an upside-filled, no-brainer relocation for New England. Will it exercise? It's literally impossible to understand, since Newton's health is an X-factor. So let's discuss Cam's health. What injury is he coming back from? There
  's a common perception about Newton
  's health and how much he's deteriorated
  over the last numerous years. Newton's health is spoken about in such a way suggesting his body has actually betrayed him and he's simply entirely fallen apart. Individuals talk about him as being" broken." It's ridiculous. I definitely take umbrage here– Newton has actually shown multiple times in the last two seasons that he's close to being completely healthy. Heading into 2018, Newton was at 100 percent. He invested the very first 8 games of that season playing outstanding
  football prior to suffering a shoulder injury against the Steelers in a blowout Thursday Night Football loss. Newton would never ever be the exact same until going under the knife in January 2019. It's my belief Newton was entirely healed from his shoulder injury that offseason, however no one ever actually sawNewton throw
  the football much previous to him suffering a foot injury against the Patriots in the preseason. The Panthers minimized it, however by Week 2 of 2019, something was clearly wrong. Newton re-aggravated the foot injury against Tampa Bay during a 20-14 loss that featured ugly weather. Individuals wished to concentrate on his error due to the fact that of the shoulder injury, but it was unquestionably the foot injury triggering him to miss out on throws. Newton hardly stepped into anything that night.
  by means of NFL Gamepass It became worse after Newton turned up limp late in the first quarter.
  People claim "Cam wasn't ever accurate" and indicate the shoulder injury
  to recommend Cam is toast. Web cam completed almost 68 percent of his passes in 2018 and 67.3 percent prior to hurting his shoulder in Norv Turner's offense. He can be accurate in an affordable offending system. Because of his shoulder– he could not step into anything with a crunked up foot, he wasn't cruising everything versus Tampa Bay. For Cam, there's no guarantee he comes back from foot injury in perfectly smooth style.
  CBS Sports' Brady Quinn and I have talked about this a lot on the Pick Six Podcast– Brady suffered a Lisfranc injury when playing in the NFL however didn't have surgery on his foot up until about a year earlier. Undoubtedly it's not the exact same problem as Cam, however speaking with Brady about it, there are plainly some problems adjusting to life after getting your foot surgically repaired, like how to change workouts, overcompensating for the foot injury and some movement concerns. Once again, I'm not stating Cam will battle those problems, however it would be surprising if the recovery was entirely seamless and finished with in just six months( he really need to have had the foot surgery in October, but that's a whole various story ). That's precisely why New England convinced Newton to pick a veterinarian minutes offer jammed with incentives. Why didn't anybody else desire Cam? I got asked this roughly four billion times on the radio Monday in the wake of Newton's deal
  of the summertime he picks up among the most unique players the sport has ever seen for the veterinarian minimum. When you consider how the Pats have actually been developing this season, it's so compelling and even more so. I'm strongly of the belief Belichick wants to run the living crap out
  of the ball this year, understanding an incredibly reduced and distanced offseason will make including any sort of complicated layers to his offense will make things more difficult for teams with minimal quantity of practices readily available. It makes sense– consistency is going to be king in 2020, however if you choose to kick 20 years of consistency to the curb, the apparent next relocation is to make things as easy as possible. This already was in location prior to Newton entered play. The Patriots didn't include a lot of weapons in the death video game this offseason, rather deciding to toss the franchise tag on guard Joe Thuney (TBD if a deal takes place, but that relocation is a quite clear sign how important the run game is) and after that spent two early draft badger tight ends for the first time since 2010, picking up Devin Asiasi and Dalton Keene in the 3rd round of the draft. Sony Michel was 2018's first-round pick and Damien Harris was a third-round choice last year; this shift has actually been taking place longer than Belichick would like you to understand. My individual Stidham theory includes Belichick hoping he could recreate 2001, putting a strong defense in place with an excellent run video game and getting some game management and clutch tosses out of his young quarterback.
  Individuals forget, however Brady didn't come out gunning, he was a game supervisor who made a profane variety of clutch throws and wise choices for the early portion of his profession. Camera supplied some very great worth and a lot of upside. And you know what makes a power run game instantly better? The risk of a quarterback who can run. If you've followed football the last 10
  with the Pats, and a large factor for the suspicion from people analyzing this deal is New England.
  Anywhere else without any offers and the anti-Cam crowd– and buddy is it a big crowd– is flying out of the woodwork to yell about how he can't be precise or run an NFL offense, blah, blah, blah. The reality of the scenario is New England was the only landing area for the previous MVP. Cam wanted an opportunity to begin but could not check out anybody for physicals throughout the early part of complimentary agency. If you want to play the rule-out video game, you can
  eliminate the Dolphins, Bills, Jets, Browns, Texans,< a href=" https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/teams/LAC/los-angeles-chargers/ " > Chargers, Bengals, Browns, Ravens, Redskins, Giants, Broncos and Cardinals since they all have young quarterbacks they recently prepared in the first or 2nd round. The Colts,< a href=" https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/teams/TEN/tennessee-titans/ " > Titans and Buccaneers all signed quarterbacks this offseason. The Panthers cut Cam. The Bears traded for Nick Foles. The Falcons, Saints, Cowboys, Eagles, Lions, Bears, Packers, Steelers, Chiefs, Raiders, 49ers and< a href=" https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/teams/LAR/los-angeles-rams/ " > Rams all have veteran quarterbacks.
  That leaves the Pats and Jaguars as the only possible mutual landing spots for Cam. Jacksonville wants to see what it has in Gardner Minshew and is reconstructing. The Pats always made good sense, specifically with the method Belichick has actually long revered Newton.
  " Not saying that there aren't a great deal of other excellent gamers that do that, however I would state, of all the guys we play or have played recently in the last couple of years, he's the hardest guy to handle," Belichick said back in 2017. "He makes good decisions. He can run. He's strong. He's difficult to tackle. He can do a great deal of different things, beat you in a great deal of different methods. We saw that in the game down there in '13, so I would put him at the top of the list." Not stating the other guys aren't an issue, due to the fact that they are, however he's Public Enemy No. 1."
  Those are the kind of words scheduled for one of Belichick's Guys ( Ed Reed, etc). Pretty clearly, Cam is on the Belichick Crush List. What will this offense appear like? I'm definitely captivated by what the Patriots are doing thisoffseason. They just lost Tom Brady. The biggest quarterback in the history of football" left "( in my opinion he didn't get asked back, like it was boarding school, however that's likewise another story for another day )and they're restarting for the very first time in the history of the best dynasty in sports history. Belichick invests all offseason making overt gestures to indicate he's ready to roll with Jarrett Stidham and after that in the middle
  Edelman is a best Cam receiver. He runs tight routes and has a surprising catch radius for someone his size. Cam can suffice loose and he'll come down and keep running. Harry is red-zone monster who got unjustly dogged last year due to the fact that A.J. Brown and Deebo Samuel( the latter a PERFECT Patriots player if there ever was one) blew up while Harry didn't do much for the Pats. If Cam is healthy the Pats are gon na have some wild stuff to deal with offensively, and a lot of if it won't force them to leave
  their base offense. Go 12 personnel with two tight ends, pound the ball, run some cool stuff with Cam, rating 21 points and let your defense take control of. So what's the big takeaway? The amusing aspect of Cam Newton is he spent simply about every day of his life from the moment he stepped foot on Florida's school previously
  being a lightning rod. There are
  a million reasons and a bunch of them aren't football related. Some mother wrote a letter to a Tennessee newspaper grumbling that Cam had excessive fun on the field. There has never ever been a time in Cam Newton's football career where individuals didn't yell about whatever he was doing. And then Bill Belichick signed him. All of us agreed it was a great relocation. Webcam must win this job, unless a) he's not healthy or b )Stidham is a beast. In any case is a win for Belichick, because he gets a totally free roll with
  the most dynamic red zone risk to ever play professional football.
  A healthy Cam feels tough since of for how long it's been since we saw 16 games, however it's not improbable. Think of believing Belichick finally lost Brady and after that in some way got healthy Cam for a couple seasons. The AFC East has actually been licking its chops for a few years now, but that hubris may have been misplaced. The boats, they may beat ceaselessly.
  years you should know the math on it– when the offense is reading a defender it ends up being 11-on-10 if you run the play correctly. That's the sort of calculus/economics Belichick would most likely have actually been involved in a years ago if he hadn't gotten to coach Brady for 20 years.( Aside: the Pats taking Michel instead of Lamar Jackson If?), should be an all-time NFL What Now you offer him Cam Newton, a former NFL MVP and, in my mind, the biggest rushing quarterback of all time. We haven't seen peak Cam in a while, so it's easy to forget
  , however this was the start of 2018. It wasn't that long earlier. If Cam's foot is healthy and he plays 16 video games– not a given, but if– the Patriots will steamroll this department again. Go back and view what Josh McDaniels did when Jacoby Brissett started versus Houston in 2015 while Tom Brady was serving his Deflategate suspension. They opened with read option. And then the Pats proceeded to run Brissett 10 times in that game. Jacoby Brissett is a good quarterback but he's not a quick runner. The function of the strategy was to keep the Texans on their heels( it worked )and decrease the amount of the tosses Brissett required to make. When he ran things in Denver, mcdaniels drafted Tim Tebow in the very first round. It wasn't for his passing prowess. Julian Edelman and N'Keal Harry aren't subduing anybody from an air attack perspective.
  , however Newton makes more sense as a replacement for Tom Brady. This is an upside-filled, no-brainer move for New England." Not saying that there aren't a lot of other great gamers that do that, however I would state, of all the guys we have or play played just recently in the last couple of years, he's the hardest guy to deal with," Belichick stated back in 2017. Those are the kind of words booked for one of Belichick's Guys ( Ed Reed, etc). Pretty clearly, Cam is on the Belichick Crush List.