Cam Newton addresses Brock Purdy ‘game manager’ comments 👀 | First Take

Cam Newton addresses Brock Purdy ‘game manager’ comments 👀 | First Take
Cam Newton joins First Take to discuss his comments about Brock Purdy, Lamar Jackson’s season, Bill Belichick’s NFL future and more.
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0:00 Brock Purdy’s game
5:50 Do you consider Lamar’s season a success?
8:30 Surprised Bill Belichick didn’t get hired this cycle?

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Former number one pick MVP All Pro Cam Newton I’ve been doing the show for a long time you finally come on it is so good to have you sir it’s good to see you bro welcome to Vegas yes the fresh hat we’re into it all right let’s dive

Into this cuz you’re making a lot of noise with this pretty game manager take do you trust him on a game-winning Drive in the Super Bowl I trust his resources good answer I trust Debo I trust George KD I tress Christian mcaffrey Brandon nayuk I trust those guys and at

As he has those at his disposal so yes so it it’s it’s it’s that I think it’s it’s no hate it’s no you can’t Corner that Narrative of you know he’s bitter he sounds this he’s that it’s not that it’s it’s when I think about the 49ers it’s a loaded team and

Did he ask for that no but he’s been playing light out football something that that a lot of he’s a lot of people have took notice too and he’s in this position because he has been playing great ball so yeah well I’m going I’m going to take this

Conversation and I’m going to hand it over to Shannon and and doggy but I want to say this on national television as a show personally me personally I owe you an apology we owe you an apology and I’m going to tell you why okay because whether we agree or disagree

With your synopsis your your dissection of brck py and whether he’s a game manager as opposed to a game changer or anything like that what it deteriorated into right was people questioning whether you had the right to say it yes sir that was never the intent you for a

Number one overall pick former League MVP who took a team to a Super Bowl appearance with less right at the quarterback position so to me it’s not a matter Shannon of agreeing or disagreeing you have the right to have the opinion that you had so I want to

Say on National Television I’mma take I’m going take owners for that even though I I wasn’t calling you out like that damn it they were talking about it on the show so you you deserve an apology for that that’s all I wanted to say about that before I hand it over to

Y’all the greatest quarterback in our game yeah was a game manager Elite and but let me tell you why because Tom Brady could Tom Brady could understand very early on what the Go the game called for I need to throw for 400 this game nah you see the way that defense is

Playing you see nah I just don’t need to put the ball In Harm’s Way look at Patrick Mahomes in the second half he was a game manager because he and Andy came to the conclusion there’s no way Baltimore can beat us if we don’t give

Him a pick six or a scooping score put the ball In Harm’s Way or put him on a short field make him drive 80 make him drive 90 and I want to turn tell this story and I’m going turn it over you dog we was playing Kansas City in the

Divisional round and it was fourth and one I think we’re probably like the 30 yd line and Mike called timeout and he wanted to go for it and John said no don’t do that don’t let him get this crowd into the ball game let punt the

Ball make him make them Drive the ball so in that moment John lway we know who he was he’s a former MVP and would later win Super Bowl MVP he became a game manager because he understood what the game called for I get what you’re saying

People tried to Corner me is he Elite I said look I look at I’m I guess I measure you and I measure eliteness on a different level game got thr for 350 three touchdowns oh he Elite after one game you’ve seen enough after one game to call somebody

Elite and helped the pump when Elvis skirack was the chief quarterback tell I think he was I think he was he was now now do we give pry I agree with you I mean and remember remember when Samuel didn’t play Trent Williams didn’t play the L three games yeah and you have

Every right to say what you want if I can say stuff like that I didn’t play you can say stuff like that the bom little Chris Russo can say p is a game manager so could cam mutant that’s number one number two though do we give

Pie a lot of credit for the Green Bay game he had the weapons the whole game he did not play well should have had pick sixes and then that last drive with the season in the line six of seven spread the ball around even KD dro and they scored the game winning

Touchdown but this is the thing that we have to talk about sports especially in football okay there’s so many different determined factors in football right let’s take the greatest of all time if Adam vinary Shanks that field goal yeah what are we talking about what are we really talking about Tuck Rule is

Not a lot a lot of those things are are happens because of so many factors that plays I I heard the segment before in regards to a successful year with Lamar Jackson it was a lot of thing it wasn’t just Lamar right you see what I’m saying it’s things that happens behind the

Scenes it may be a defensive stop it may be this it may be that my last thing too in regards to Tom Brady and obviously people know that I had a stin you know um in the wingland yeah I want to get into that after I had access to watching

How he played this Tom Brady was playing f faster than people were thinking right playing faster than what you’re thinking his ability to go from one check to the next check to the next check it was just it was it was like masterful so dare I

Not mention Elite game managing as a as a art of swordsman to be able to you know attack a defense so there’s a skill to it as as an elite skill what is the standard is it the standard determined by history and doesn’t history get to measure what

Present should be absolutely but it’s still a lot of that goes into it okay it’s a lot of so it’s two different folds and it’s Perfect Analogy here we’re determining Lamar’s success off of the inability to win a game that he wasn’t blown out it was a one- score

Game right so that means the defense could have got a stop right there was a questionable call you know pass interference that was question too uh it was just so many different things that could have happened all right cool okay that’s the bad the good is everybody’s

Doing their job for the 49ers and we see that type of success Brandon auk bounce catches a ball that bounces off of a head and then boom that’s a play to be had right certain things not being called uh and it is what it is so there

There are not mentioned the factors to the fact of what we’re really talking about how would Cam Newton had judged his season you’re 15-1 you lose a home championship game and you become the MVP how would cam have judged his season well I did as much as I possibly could

To put my team in the position to win and that’s all like at the end of the day we all say these things I play to win the game right okay now put a microscope to that I have to do my job just like me uh you know going into that

Locker room going into that huddle it’s 11 guys that needs to do one job not one guy trying to do 11 jobs correct but but when you’re great the belief is you take into account the ability to spot those on that particular day I’m talking about

That ain’t doing their job how do you make up for it because when you’re great and you’re you’re paid to be great and the recognition and notoriety you receive validates your greatness as well there is more that’s expected from you as opposed to some dude riding the

But you still have to listen going back to Tom Brady Tom Brady greatness wasn’t great when he you know we identified that greatness when he had Randy Moss okay Tom Brady greatness happened when he had Danny madola when he had jul these unproven at that particular point

Of time he was also clutch in the biggest moment for sure but he gave guys opportunities and the moment was never too big for Danny and mola uh um Julian Edelman Rob gr those guys said give me an opportunity stud and and can I transition real quick cuz this is still

Baffling to me and I want to go back to your stin in New England and maybe you have some answers so in my time I think Bill bich is the greatest coach of all time he’s a genius why does he not have a job can you can you explain this to me

I don’t I don’t know Williams situations now like he can enjoy the fruits of his labor that’s okay too um but I don’t I don’t necessarily know I think people know what he brings to the table what he br brings to a franchise uh and I think the thing when

I first got there Robert Craft assured me that you’re not going to me to have another franchise that’s going to be pulling an alignment in the in the same direction Robert Craft never questions Bill’s you know judgment on on players and everything else I don’t know if

Other people are able to give him that well I think it’s easy I think the answer to that question is easy y’all it’s very very simple you see guys getting highed today they’re younger and what happens is they want their own thing bill bich has been running his own

Shot for two decades do you believe for one second that some young dude that bill bich has forgotten more football than that individual may know is going to be able to over see anything bill bich is running they’re not going to hire him because they don’t want to have

To deal with that they know how knowledgeable and accomplished he is and they’re in no position to tell him anything man listen when it comes at a cost I’m talking about the young young kids that that got those GM jobs and stuff like that I’m speaking on regards

To the people who was making the hiring it comes with a cost right you want to put your ego aside or you want to win there you go simple and plain are you are you going to be able to ask that of Coach bich but I think it’s it goes a

Little further I think it’s twofold I look at coach bich career pre- Brady with Brady post Brady now how they look now he’s not going to have Brady at one of these stops right also at 70 plus years of age how does that message resonate with the young guys when you

Don’t have a Tom Brady like quarterback to oversee and smooth everything out let me let me say that tell me uh to this point too the year that I came in yes it was more than just the absence of Brady linebacker safety Patrick Chung uh you

Had a lot of leadership that left too yeah Brady was obviously the the the public figure that garnered a lot of attention Julian Edelman being injured those guys didn’t know the consistency of how practice is able to how how to be a pro right you see what I’m saying so

It wasn’t just break rob you know grun like contrary to what people may believe it was so much that was flushed in a one to 2ear span that I don’t think he could gain his footing from you know in that locker room because now you’re depending on other sources that aren’t vetted to

Be thrusted into that that Realm of the Patriot Way