oochymp 2,393 Posted December 17, 2015 saw this floating around facebook and thought I'd share: Cam Newton: Why Carolina Panthers' New QB Is the Worst NFL Draft Pick Ever | Bleacher Report By Jim Folsom, Senior Analyst, May 9, 2011 Cam Newton is a sure-fire bust. I am so certain of this that if he is the Panthers' starting quarterback in 2016, I will buy a Cam Newton jersey and stand in the stadium parking lot in my underwear when the Panthers come to Tampa Bay and hold a sign proclaiming that Auburn rules over Florida and Carolina rules over Tampa Bay. This guy will be long gone by then. Here are just a few of the reasons why I believe he will make Ryan Leaf only the second-biggest draft bust in history. ... So how is it we go from "Tebow sucks" to "Cam is awesome" in one year? When these two guys played on the same team for two years, Cam was the one riding the bench while Tebow was breaking records and winning championships. So how is it that the treatment of Cam by the "draft people" is 180 degrees different than Tebow's? I don't know. Let's ask Denver Broncos fans if they would like to trade Tebow for Newton straight up. They would laugh in your face. Football fans know even if the experts have no clue. We can spot a fraud when we see one. In five years, when Tebow is leading Denver into the playoffs and Cam Newton is riding someone's bench, remember this article. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maverick 791 Posted December 17, 2015 lol Bleacher Report "writers" 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cherry 1,302 Posted December 17, 2015 (edited) Better than Mike Freeman's dumbass ranting about the latest shit that has nothing to do with football. Lol nevermind now that I've read it. The guy has a flawed argument to begin with. Lack of experience is a classic cop out to actually scouting and analyzing a player. I can break down how good a player is in one to three games. Any attentive scout can. To say that one year is not a good basis of work is silly. Why the fuck would you be concerned with how he reacts to losing? Not losing at the college level doesn't mean he went undefeated at the high school level. I can almost guarantee he lost at least one game throughout his football career before being drafted. Incredibly baseless argument. You can't target a guy's weakness as never having lost a fucking game. You don't have to be a genius to run an offense. Gruden asks some pretty complex shit for college kids. A guy who doesn't run a pro-style system is less likely to understand. That doesn't mean he isn't capable of understanding though. Dude compares class smarts with football smarts. Lmao holy shit. I've been shit in school and barely passed, but I know more about the game than many people who have straight A's. Classroom smarts /=/ Football smarts. Tebow compared to Cam lololol. Tebow's throwing motion was always shit and never changed. It is what it is. "Broncos fans wouldn't trade Tebow for Cam straight up" hahaha. This is the most atrocious sack of shit article I've probably ever read. Early days B/R is a fucking joke. I could shit out a better article while on bath salts. Edited December 17, 2015 by Chernobyl426 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Favre4Ever+ 4,476 Posted December 17, 2015 Eh... The article was written before he ever even took a snap in the NFL. A bit presumptuous? Definitely. Also pretty funny how wrong hindsight has proven to be. But that's what we all do. We call guys busts before they play in the league for a variety of reasons, compare them to guys who are better (also lulz) already in the league, etc etc. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FartWaffles 1,857 Posted December 17, 2015 I like to revisit this article once a year for a good laugh. http://houston.culturemap.com/news/sports/04-29-11-texans-will-rue-the-night-they-took-pizza-boy-watts-over-nick-fairley-houston-lover/ Texans will rue the night they took Pizza Boy J.J. Watt over Nick Fairley, Houston lover A star fell right into the Houston Texans laps on draft night, like a blessing from the football gods only Rick Smith, Gary Kubiak and Wade Phillips didn't grab him. Instead, they punted Nick Fairley right back into the boo-y night. Fairley landed with the Detroit Lions, where he'll collect Pro Bowl berths for years to come. The Texans took a former Pizza Hut deliveryman instead. But that pizza boy sure has a lot of character. That's really what it seems to have come down to for the Texans again with the selection of Wisconsin's J.J. Watt. This franchise may never make the playoffs under Bob McNair, but it's sure going to have high-quality gentlemen on the roster. (As long as you dismiss a suspension for performance-enhancing drugs or two.) Nick Fairley is a character, but he's not of high character. He's something of a dirty player, a cheap-shot artist who is apt to literally kick an opponent when he's down. Fairley may not always say "Yes Sir" to his coaches. He'd bring some challenges to say the least. But, he's also the most dominant defensive player available. Fairley not do-everything quarterback Cam Newton controlled the national championship game for Auburn. He disrupts offenses the way that Charlie Sheen disrupts hotel rooms. Yes, he's also nasty, mean and hard for coaches to completely rein in. Sounds like exactly what the do-good Texans need. Sounds like some of the best defensive players in NFL history. Bill Parcells never asked Lawrence Taylor to be a choir boy. Or even to stay awake in meetings for that matter. You can't have a roster filled with those type of problem talents. But you'd better have one or two, if you want to win. The Texans are too often paralyzed by their niceness, by their inability to find a spine when the game's on the line. Fairley isn't in Taylor's league as a player or a problem. He's more along the lines of the Texans' reclamation running back Arian Foster on the difficulty scale. And how's that turned out for Smith and Kubiak? Still, they couldn't bring themselves to take a chance with the 11th pick in the draft. Instead of going big, instead of grabbing the best defensive player in the draft (a guy who Mel Kiper was touting as the No. 1 overall pick not long ago), the Texans played it safe and went with the pizza boy. Watt could turn out to be a fine enough player. With his "high motor" that new Texans defensive coordinator Wade Phillips keeps talking about, Watt should be at least a serviceable defensive lineman for years to come. He'll work and work, just like he did in going from being out of football for six months, stuck delivering Pizza Hut in his little hometown of Pewaukee, Wis., to walking on to the Badgers as the lowest of scrubs to becoming an impact player in the Big Ten. "He's an off-the-charts human being," Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema said of Watt leading up to the draft. Watt is a great story. But it's hard to imagine him ever being a star. It's hard to see him changing games for Houston on defense. That's what the Texans desperately needed. There were two players in this draft who could have done that. One, LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson, was long gone by the time the Texans turn came up, with Smith unwilling to pay the price to move up to grab the best player at Houston's most-needed position (another questionable move, but at least one that can be justified). The other sat right there though, still on the board and Houston said no thanks to Fairley. It's one of those moves that can define a franchise. When the Minnesota Vikings had a chance to go bold in the 1998 draft and they did, stealing Randy Moss with the 21st pick when other teams ran from his issues. Moss eventually drove himself out of Minnesota in embarrassing fashion (some might even say, franchise-embarrassing fashion), but his seven seasons as a game changer paid off that risk a billionfold. The Texans had a chance at that type of impact risk force ... and they ran smiling politely the other way. As much as anything, this is why the Smith, Kubiak and now Phillips regime will never completely work. Too safe. Too fearful. Too unimaginative. Fairley won the Lombardi Award in Houston. He chose to come back and train in Houston for the NFL Draft, understanding innovative training techniques live here. His agent is based in Houston. He's a perfect fit in the 3-4 scheme that Phillips plans to employ in Houston. You couldn't script a more perfect landing. And the Texans' now three-headed brain trust punted. Something you still can't expect to see opposing offenses doing too much of in Reliant Stadium this fall. Not without Fairley, not without the star who was sent back to the sky. "This is fun town," Fairley told me during his Lombardi visit. "I love the chill vibe even though it's big city." Houston would have loved him too. Only the Texans don't believe in stars. They just want to feel safe. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Piggly Wiggly 960 Posted December 17, 2015 lol Bleacher Report "writers" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oochymp 2,393 Posted December 17, 2015 Eh... The article was written before he ever even took a snap in the NFL. A bit presumptuous? Definitely. Also pretty funny how wrong hindsight has proven to be. But that's what we all do. We call guys busts before they play in the league for a variety of reasons, compare them to guys who are better (also lulz) already in the league, etc etc. it's just funny to see a guy be so bull-headed about two very young QBs (Newton had just been drafted and Tebow had been in the league one year mainly as a backup) and be so wrong about both, it's no surprise that if you look at the guy's profile page on B/R he's wearing a Florida hat Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CampinWithaMissingPerson 2,025 Posted December 17, 2015 it's just funny to see a guy be so bull-headed about two very young QBs (Newton had just been drafted and Tebow had been in the league one year mainly as a backup) and be so wrong about both, it's no surprise that if you look at the guy's profile page on B/R he's wearing a Florida hat It's not cool to make fun of the handicapped, oochy 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BigBen07 285 Posted December 17, 2015 (edited) Well ,good news for him is the NFL.com Christmas sale is on. He'll save some money buying that Cam jersey. Edited December 17, 2015 by BigBen07 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zack_of_Steel+ 3,014 Posted December 18, 2015 lol Bleacher Report "writers" I came to say that the title was misleading. Bleacher Report doesn't have writers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
