The Cardinals were a special team that year but I’m surprised at how Carson Palmer played in that game 🥴 if our defense was better in the fourth the Giants could’ve had a solid year in 2015
@@diehardnygiantsfan6569 Something about Panthers Cardinals playoff games I guess. 7 years earlier the 12-4 Panthers matched up against the 9-7 Cards and Jake Delhomme, who had been very solid his entire career up to that point, ended up with 6 turnovers.
Funny enough,the pass wasthe right call, Lynch's success from the1 yard line was abysmally low while they they had about 60% or so success rate with a pass.
I heard it wasn’t the call. The call was to run. But Russel Wilson saw something and he switched it. This was the beginning of the end for the Seahawks. After that apparently nobody respected Russ on the team. They chalked it up that he may of wanted to take the spotlight. Because statistically that day and season, Marshawn was having a night and that was a guaranteed TD.
I'm a lifelong 'Hawks fan and there is a pretty good chance that "We should have run the Goddamn ball" will be on my tombstone... But hey, at least it wasn't the Buttfumble 🤣
Cam is a dude known for taking hits that men typing on keyboards would die from so of course everyone is going to say he is soft for not diving head first on a ball where linebackers are waiting to kill you, of course he didn't put his head on the ball lmao
@@kevinleewilliams5119If he's known for taking big hits, then why didn't he dive for the ball in the SUPER BOWL? You know, the championship game. The biggest NFL game of the year. John Elway got helicoptered at almost 40 years old in the Super Bowl because he wanted to win. Clearly, it wasn't that important to Cam.
@@kevinleewilliams5119 The only thing I can think of to defend his move is that maybe he was expecting the ball to pop out and go rolling away. The big guys are not the best at securing the football.
Von Miller took Newton's soul on a hit in the first quarter. Miller was always the better player, and as for Newton going 1 & Miller 2, I guess he took that personally...
@@brandonnilsson3 a great point, a 50/50 call 8 minutes into the game was absolutely the turning point, I'll get in touch with the Broncos so they can start the process of returning their rings.
@@LXD.0 Why hate on the Broncos? They were underdogs, Cam was coming off his best year, he got the MVP and had some gold shoes he had made for himself to go with the gold MVP shirt he also had made. What could go wrong? When Cam went #1 Von went #2 and he annihilated Cam in every game they played against each other. So why not SB50? Maybe you should hate Von.
Yes, I remember well that play. Minutes left in the game with the Panthers having a real chance to be Super Bowl champions, and he refused to dive after that loose ball. That play took Cam Newton off my list of the greatest all time quarterbacks in NFL history.
I agree it looks bad, but you never know what he was thinking. Even he probably doesn't know, it happened so fast. Ultimately the ball did squirt out and he had a better chance standing up than laying down. He was kind of a dick before and after that, but it's hard for me to judge the guy solely based on 100milliseconds of his career. If you think that moment is symbolic of his behavior for the rest of his career, fine. But in that case it's just your symbol, it isn't the entire basis of your opinion.
@@markdavis7397 Really! Those situations define what a player is made of. QBs that are team leaders, do what ever it takes to win. Cam (really Can not) proved to everyone he was never a leader of the team.
@@davidroman1654If you don’t think Cam lead and single handedly changed the trajectory of the Panthers in a positive way and onto the Super Bowl, then you might not know ball
Team leaders make sacrifices for the team. Steve Yzerman won the Stanley Cup while playing with a knee so bad he needed his stick to get up from the ice. Yzerman slud in front of slapshots to block the shot, even being hit in the face with a puck. When your team captain makes sacrifices to win, the team will follow. Don't play the sport if you don't want the possibility of getting injured.
@@lonelychameleon3595If this ain’t about the wrong way fiasco, idk why else Marshall ain’t in Canton. The Vikings still won that game against the Niners
If he'd quit being a bitch about hit maybe he would've gone before Bud died. Vanishing in Super Bowls didn't help. I'm not anti viking, I actually think Buds perspective on this sport should be taking up by more of us. Look here we are talking about a game. Game. (Addictive to watch but still a game) fun fact Alan page helped make the 85 bears possible.
Do you know what would make for a good video? how cursed NFC South QBs are from 2015-2019. Cam Newton and Matt Ryan winning MVP back to back as QBs from the same division having career-defining losses and moments in the super bowl that changed their trajectory from borderline first ballot HOFers to potentially not even getting in. Then the Saints suffering back to back heartbreaks in the playoffs with the Minneapolis Miracle and the no call PI against the Rams leading to the end of Drew Brees career, then the Buccaneers and Jameis Winston having the 30 for 30 TD-INT season. I don’t think any group of fans in the same division have had to endure that much suffering in any 4-5 year stretch in football, it would be a fascinating video to make
or how rigged football is. They could even do that SCOTUS case where the bench said basically "yeah its fake but they can do that because it is registered sports entertainment like wrestling"
@@BlorbusUnimax It would literally be more work and cost more money to make those things happen, than for them to just happen by chance. The amount of people you would need coordinating to pull it off and yet not a single one, current or former, has come out to blow the whistle on it?
If it was just one play, though at an extremely crucial point in the game where the potential circle of guilty parties is relatively small, and some Saints fans have alleged someone like Goodell, having this sinister, shadowy, villianous, Mafia don control of NFL operations, would make sure that any paper trail, incriminating phone calls, e-mails, documents involving perpetrators and officials was eliminated so even if someone lets say did come forward, like a former NFL assistant exec who had some involvement or knowledge but not intimately came forward later on with these allegations 5-10 years later: where's his proof? Because they'd be making serious allegations on an event where a good portion of incriminating evidence has been eliminated and no longer exists and even if some of the primary few antagonists do eventually come out and c!aim subterfuge, too much time would have passed and the Teflon NFL behemoth could deny and publicly refute them that it becomes a PR war that they'd find a way to emerge unscathed. If they were to suffer some backlash and damage, so what? Its an acceptable loss, look at how they've handled the CTE controversy over a decade ago from an image perspective and the Colin Kaepernick's "social justice" protest movement where many NFL players started refusing to stand for the national anthem and it wasnt until the larger George Floyd riots in 2020 that validated their position. They offered meaningful, significant "band aid" solutions long enough and to such an extent until these issues gradually faded away or lost their potency that they began resuming the same policies, albeit more quietly. Their are maybe a few other things I could say about Goodell as it relates to this damning controversy but it's best to not go down that road because I don't want to make myself more upset.
@@ThiefOfOranges it already happened, that is a real case. jets fan. NFL is registered sports entertainment so they can rig seasons and storylines...that is a fact, it is not conjecture.
Following the Super Bowl loss, the very first regular season game of the next season was a re-match between the Broncos and Panthers in Denver. It was a 20-21 loss for the Panthers in another defensive slugfest that once again saw Newton abused. I've always thought that might have contributed to the soul-crushing he suffered after the SB loss. Here he had a small chance at redemption - but fell short again at the hands of the same Von Miller-led defense. Probably was a little cruel for the NFL to schedule that game.
They allowed all that shit on Cam Newton! Coach Rivera didn’t do much to stand up for Cam, neither. Coach Matt Rhule threw Cam under the bus! He later gave a half a*s apology of how he blamed Cam. 2020, When Brady left the Patriots, they shoved all that pre-existing bs off on Cam’s plate. They really f*cked him Up. They did Mac Jones much better & helped him get a trade!
As someone who has lived in the Carolinas my entire life... Both super bowl appearances have been losses at the hands of two of the goats in Brady and Manning. But I feel Jake got them closer to winning than Cam ever did. I've seen many panther games with cam at the helm, and that fumble and hesitation is what I think k of any time someone mentions Cam. As a life long Bronco fan.... I love it.
Wow, saved this vid at 1k views and now it’s at 250k. Came back just to comment how well done this video is and now I must also say congratulations on the positive reception! You deserve it, truly excellent work
Newton made a business decision and he lost. I saw Joe Namath try to make a tackle once and hurt his already fragile knee. Asked by a reporter why he’d do that, he said, “ because I’m a football player man!” That’s what Newton is lacking!
Cam was always a “me first” guy. Everything he said and everything he did made that obvious. Not surprised he picked number 1 for his jersey number because for him, it was always all about him, everyone and everything else came second. That play shows you exactly who he was, unwilling to put his body on the line for his team for a chance to come back and win the biggest game of his career. His ego was about as big as you’ll ever see while his character was about as lacking as you’ll ever see. That’ single play really tells you all you need to know about Cam Newton.
One play absolutely can (and has) destroy a career. Leon Lett, Mark Sanchez, Chase Young (go watch him get bullied by Kansas City down the stretch), Mac Jones, you do something dumb enough or careless enough and you'll be cast out of the league pretty quick
@@MrBeenus I couldn't remember his name! I might be wrong, but I feel like people started calling him "Wrong Way Marshall" or something like that so much his actual name gets forgotten! Another one I'm ashamed I forgot: Cody Parkey, aka the kicker of the famous "double doink." Along those same lines , Scott Norwood too for the infamous "wide right" super bowl miss
@@MrBeenus Marshall’s career was not ruined in the least. He played for 20 seasons, 6 of them after the fumble return. He was certainly embarrassed but it didn’t effect him in the long term.
@@99somerville Ok but he is pretty much solely remembered for that play. He isn't in the Hall of Fame. You would think a player that had such an illustrious would be in the HOF. You're crazy if you don't think the play is the reason for his snub. That play defined his legacy as a player. So that play did in fact affect him long term.
I have a pretty good idea having had the opportunity to observe Cam personally at a single event that it was not just one play. That may have raised public awareness, but Cam had ego, entitlement and priority problems long before that play.
@@theevermind when did he act like this? And yes not going for the fumble is kind of Jay Cutler-esque, but they were not only going to lose, but his career goes down the drain if he does that as well.
Pats fan here. He was a disaster in New England. I remember when the Pats were 4th and goal, game on the line, Cam takes the hike, he can’t decide whether to run or pass, his hesitation got him sacked. Game lost, no playoffs. Ugh
Cam's lack of development as a passer erased his career. Once the legs and the elite arm strength were gone, he wasnt even worth being a backup and was out of the league in short order. He got by on physical gifts alone and had nothing else to fall back on. The Dez Bryant of quarterbacks.
@@KillenEMsoftly No not the same thing cuz being qb isnt all about speed and arm strength. The best qbs win with their mind and mental mastery over the game. The best qbs age gracefully because they can compensate for diminishing physical traits with mental prowess in order to prolong their careers. Cam never developed a mental mastery over the game so once those physical traits diminished his career nosedived.
@@williamhermann6635 You need some mental ability to be able to reach the "mental mastery: of the game. Cam was very lacking in this quality. He was big and could run. Another Running Back trying to play Quarterback. Just was never really a top QB in the NFL.
@@IsaacPuntsand hey you need to bring up the fact that Cam Newton ran Steve Smith out of town who still had three good years left in him well too good seasons and he was hurt the last one but he still managed up 800 yd almost. But Cam Newton ran him out of town because cam wanted to be the leader of the team not the best player in franchise history
@@zach23izeThat’s just false. He continued to put up great numbers after the 2015 season. He was on pace to be better than his 2015 MVP season in 2016 until JJ Watt drilled his shoulder. Even after that, Cam continued to put up good numbers. He didn’t really “fall off” up until 2019
Who dresses that fucking guy. I try to watch his clips but he dresses like a fucking circus barker. I am by no means a fashion expert but that guy has lost touch with all reality like every day is Halloween or something
Im so glad this vid exists cause I said this back in 2015. This was inexcusable. I have no horse in this race not a fan of either team. Not trying to dive on that fumble was bottom of the barrel unacceptable. I've heard people try to argue "well he's trying to save his body from injury for the future". Bro what future this is the fourth quarter of the super bowl this is what you play for! There is no tomorrow. There is nothing to save for! As a kid in you play in your backyard with your friends making up scenarios like this. There is no saving or playing for next week. The game was still 16-10. A single touchdown takes the lead and he backed off the fumble. Unreal. So heart breaking as a general fan to see. Was it cowardice, admitting defeat to a superior team, or something else idk. it changed Cam and changed how we view him.
That means u don’t know football. He did try to get it! They don’t show it! Will Brady be defined by Deflategate? Peyton by PED’s? Brett Favre stealing from the poor? Mac Jones hitting men in their private n*t sack? 😱
I don't think he was trying to avoid injury. He literally didn't have time to process something like that to make a conscious choice. I think he just thought the ball was gonna squirt out with the two guys jumping at it, and he tried to anticipate that so he could get it when it came out. And it literally did exactly that, he just couldn't get to it. I think it just looks way worse than it actually was.
@@ThiefOfOranges Slow motion makes everything easy for the armchair QBs. It was about 2 seconds from "where's my ball" through "oh, they're piling it" to "I lost it again". That's not a lot of time, as you said.
Be a little bit more dramatic why don't you, Cam recovers this ball and the Broncos have like a 95% chance of winning the game still and nothing about Cam's falloff after 2015 is impacted at all
The way people talk about Cam, you'd think he was a top 20 QB all time despite him not even being a top 10 QB when he played. Not sure what people think they saw, but Cam was never anything outside of one season. There's no injuries to blame. No superbowl choke to blame. He just simply wasn't the amazing QB you for whatever think you was.
Maybe so, but he won MVP in 2015 you gotta give him some cred dude. And what weapons he had besides Greg Olson and aging Steve Smith -nobody. Broncos had No 1 D that’s how they won SB -not Peyton. Keep it real.
What are you talking about? Of course he was a Top 10 QB when he played. He was 2 minutes away from being 16-0 in the regular season and still could have won that Super Bowl. Tell me the 10 QBs better than him in that 3 year stretch where he had an MVP.
One can only call it a tragedy if you believe that he deserved better. His father's church got a hefty donation so he would come to Auburn in the 1st place. Auburn boosters donated over $50k to his dad's church and poof he arrived at Auburn. Newton was a prima donna and could read the signs at UF that there were at least 2 leaders at the QB position better/more of team players than him so he got shopped around. His dad asked for over $150k to go to Mississippi State, btw. His heisman season should have been counted null and void. Cam got drafted and it wasn't his skill that took them to the Super Bowl, in fact he rarely did very well in most playoff games. He was underwhelming often and would choke a lot in the playoffs. This one play actually brought light to the type of player he truly was, not erased a great career.
Concerning the college stuff: Now that we’re in the era of NIL college football (and especially in the SEC) no one cared/cares about Cams dad getting a check except pearl clutchers. Also, the NCAA investigated the whole thing and it was a loophole since the donation didn’t go to Cam and they couldn’t prove he was involved or benefiting from it. More of a question about his dad than about him. As for Florida. People leave all the time when they don’t like their spot on the depth chart. More likely he left UF because of the laptop incident, which is the only real problem to have had with him in college. It’s hard to argue he wasn’t one of the most electric players since Reggie Bush, but sometimes people don’t pan out in the big leagues. See Tebow or Manziel.
@@ImJoegathWe're in the era of NIL bullshit because of Cam and those like him, people who weren't content with receiving an all expense paid education from a well respected institution in exchange for playing sports. Now, in addition to having their entire time at university paid for, they are being given unspeakable amounts of cash and zero incentive to consider the likely chance that they will never play professionally.
@@Riley_Mundt considering how much money football players bring in for universities, how much risk they take on, and exactly *because* many of them will never play professionally, they should be eligible to be paid. Education is valuable, but even just from a supply/demand perspective, there’s orders of magnitude more people that earn full rides by scoring a 32 on their ACT than can claim to be at the upper echelon of college football.
@@ImJoegath Considering the vast majority of the money brought in by the football program is used to pay for the rest of the athletics programs at the university, all these kids are doing is screwing over the rest of their fellow athletes. The fact most will never be professionals is why they should focus on the reason they are there, their education. It is not an excuse to hand multi-million dollar bribes to amateur athletes.
@@ImJoegath shopping your son around to the highest bidder is anti-thetical to the entire premise of college football, which is supposed to be about loyalty to school and team --- it would be the same thing as shopping your daughter around to the man who offers the most money to marry her, instead of letting her choose which man she wants based on her own values and internal feelings
In Preseason you do this. 4th Quarter of a SB you DIVE on the ball. pure and simple. remember John Elway Helicopter Dive Super Bowl against Packers. 3rd and six in a 17-17 tie and he goes for it and pays as he runs for 8 yard and dives for the first down. he wasnt a pussy like Cam Newton.
I agree it looks bad, but you never know what he was thinking. Even he probably doesn't know, it happened so fast. Ultimately the ball did squirt out and he had a better chance standing up than laying down. Anyway, it's hard for me to judge the guy solely based on 100milliseconds of his career. I didn't have a high opinion of his behavior before this incident, but this didn't change it much. But having said that....I instantly knew from the headline which 100milliseconds of his career would be the topic of the video, lol.
@@markdavis7397 Cam not jumping on the ball shows that he had a love for the fame, not for the game. He knowingly walked away from that game not giving 100% effort. Had he dove for it, and still lost it, he wouldn't be clowned for it. He was clowned because he squatted down, then stutter stepped away from it
Cam thrives on his ego. As long as he feels like a super hero and he’s getting all the attention, he plays well. As soon as things start going down hill and he looks bad, he spirals. He was thriving on that that whole season. Then when he was humbled, he never recovered. He then switched to the Pats and came in with the same mindset of “I’m gonna be a hero and save the Pats”. Didn’t go as planned and he never did well. Then he gets traded back to Carolina and gets to be the hero again returning to his old team. He was good for a couple of games and then got humbled again.
That was the worst part for me --- it's one thing to punk out by not diving on a fumble --- but at least own up to it at the presser after the game --- he was a CRYBABY
L comment. Did you not see the 100's of other times he would put his life on the line for a W? He was nowhere near a proper fumble recovery position anyways.
@@jgavpercussion and they all meant nothing after this one play. If you can't do it in the biggest game, at the most important time, it means nothing. He had the best shot of recovering that of anyone on his team. And he was extremely mediocre the rest of his career. This mentally broke him.
Guess be careful, Cam lost @3377ftw s respect. Cmon bro, if one play, 100 milliseconds caused you to lose all respect for someone even after all the hard earned success they had beforehand, you might need to do some self reflection
I'll always remember being at SB50 and buying Broncos merchandise; all the Panthers fans laughing and making fun of me before the game, saying the Broncos didn't stand a chance. The most satisfying SB I've ever watched.
after that Broncos SB against Seattle a few years prior, I just had a feeling the Broncos D would shut down Cam and the Panthers in the same way, it was the most satisfying slog of a defensive game I've ever watched haha
I watched it from home and in the pregame i saw Cam wearing the gold shoes. That was the moment I knew the Broncos would prevail. To win a Super Bowl you have to play your best game of the year. The leader of the Panthers (and obviously many others) thought it was a coronation and thus failed in focus. Whereas the Broncos came in with grit and determination to win and stop the Panthers only real weapon, Cam.
@@bryangutierrez3745 I'm not gonna lie, I didn't have high hopes for the Broncos; the Panthers had been looking unstoppable in the post-season up until that point. One thing I did know is that the Panthers had never encountered such an overwhelming defense as what the Broncos had. Patton was actually quite pedestrian in the game but with that "D" he didn't need to do much anyway.
Living in Carolina and watching all the dabbing goin on, it was beautiful seeing Cam and the Panthers unfold! When the Orange Crush shut Brady down, I knew Cam was done…
@@JB1717He was a rookie. Don’t act like the Panthers were one piece away from winning it all. They were 29-51 combined in the 5 seasons before he was drafted. You get one decent year from Cam in 2015 and think you’ve arrived. Cam was big and athletic, that is all. He couldn’t pass to save his life. It was a bullet pass or nothing-zero touch on the ball. You’re still the Carolina Panthers. Don’t forget that.
@@JB1717 i genuinely don't know how the entire world didn't realize my boy CJ was the chosen one. didn't watch him at ohio state i guess. mechanics, poise, size, arm, dude's had it all from the day he first started at osu. bama hype got to tepper is all i can think. didn't your coach say he wanted to draft CJ?
Cam did try to recover that fumble. They only showed part of it! They were jealous of Cam. Blistering haters have done him dirty. The NFL, Coaches didn’t protect Cam. They protected the White QBs. They left Cam to die!
As a non bronco or carolina fan, I was shocked when he didn't dive for the ball. I don't think I have ever seen that level of cowardice on such a big stage and such a big moment.
@@elizabethgodfrey1033 You are totally correct. Which is why I was so shocked when he did that because he doesn't normally act cowardly. Unfortunately he did this one time and he did it on the biggest stage.
Idk why now it seems that people are pretending that this panthers team was the equivalent of the 2018 cavs. They had a stacked defense and good supporting cast around Newton even if they weren’t big names. And they had a pretty easy path to the SB while playing in the NFC South. Not saying Cam wasn’t one of the best players in the league this year but he didn’t drag this team or anything crazy
@wv4776 He wasn't one of the best he was voted as THE best from his peers in the NFLthat year. Nice attempt at discrediting him, he put the offense on his back all season.
People forget Cam fractured his back in a car crash a year and a half before this. I’ve never broke my back but I tore my ACL twice playing football and I assure you, when you suffer an injury like that you never truly trust your body again. After I tore my ACL for the first time at best I was 85-90% of the player I once was. I still remember cams press conference when he admitted he didn’t want to get hurt, shit hit close to home for me but if we’re being honest I’d tear my ACL for a 3rd time in a heartbeat if I somehow made it to the league and into a Super Bowl game
You see the same thing at the end of the 2014 divisional playoff game between Carolina and Seattle. After Kam Chancellor picked off Newton in the fourth quarter, Newton gives up the pursuit, and effectively ends the season as well. Nice video.
If Cam Newton has no haters then I'm dead. Reliving his downfall as a Broncos fan just takes me back to better days where they were good enough to ruin someone's career.
I saw that play live (when Cam stepped back from the fumble against the Broncos) and remember being quite surprised that Cam would just seemingly cower away from the ball like that.
As a forever Panthers fan I had a hard time deciding if I wanted to watch this. If we ever win one it will go on the back burner but never be forgotten.
Patriots fan here. The 2003 Super Bowl was the greatest ever. The Panthers deserve a lot of credit for how great it was. Pinnacle of the sport as far as balance between old school physical football and newer passing and safety rules. Two of the greatest teams top to bottom throughout the rosters. Great coaching on both sides. Thanks to the Panthers for that one.
listening to the broadcasters turn on newton after that play was incredible. they spent the entire game glazing him then he moved away and it all just stopped. incredible for me as a broncos fan
The play hurt a lot, as it was the closest I've ever seen to where you could say a player on his level, in a still winnable game, quit. It felt like Cam made a business decision and the only way you make that business decision is if you think the game is over, you just can't score on this defense. But I think Phillips also created the blueprint for stopping Cam at that time as Wade was the first person to decide to just ignore Cam's Scrambling and bring the edge heat against vulnerable tackles of the panthers. It seemed obvious afterwords that Cam was a great runner, but his running was always designed runs not scrambling, but that game was when everyone seemed to just realize it at once. Good video.
Completely agree about how this play changed his career and how Carolina fans saw him. All Carolina fans could not understand how he did not dive for that ball. A lot of people overlook how the Michael Ohr injury transformed the team after he got hurt with multiple concussions and would never play again. This would create the terrible left tackle situation that would eventually lead to the offensive line turning to crap and cause Cam to be pounded. His legacy will be that he was a great runner and played hero ball well, but they had to go get him tall receivers because he was inaccurate. He really made a living throwing the ball deep to Ted Ginn and across the middle to Greg Olsen, but sideline throws were always very inaccurate and where most of his interceptions came from. Once he got the arm injury it was unfortunately the beginning of the end since he could no longer play hero ball and throw the deep pass. When he had to rely on short and intermediate patterns that required timing, it turned really bad.
I remember watching Super Bowl 50 on tv and in the 3rd quarter they flashed a stat on the screen, the Broncos defense had more QB hurries up to that point in the 3rd quarter than the total of all of the Panthers other playoff games combined.
Watching Cam Newton's career spiral into nothing after he acted like an immature clown his entire life was truly satisfying. Still the Same Immature baby to this day, just watch his TH-cam Channel.
It's a lot of you assholes in the comment section I see. Tom Brady or Kermit the Frog throwing tablets and breaking shit for calls is GOAT status but Cam was throwing "temper tantrums" 😂
My brother and I have been Panthers fans since they were born. I remember watching that strip sack, and we both were yelling to dive on it!! Man, it's been rough ever since. Last year was brutal. I'm trying to be optimistic this go around. Either way I'll be watching every Sunday! Keep Pounding!!
That play, that game made me abandon my love for that franchise. That was my squad too since Chris Gamble, Musin Muhammad, Deshaun Foster, Jon Beason, Ju Peppers etc….but that game play/game took something from me I’ll never be able to explain in terms of the Panthers franchise. Now I just watch football all around
@CoachDoug100 made me lose respect for Cam, but not the panthers. I'll always be a ride or die panthers fan. Even after watching that shit show last season lol.
These old haters making this old video for something 8 yrs ago. That fumble didn’t lose that game. He did try to recover it. They didn’t show it all! Cam has a lot of enemies! The Refs let Cam get abused in SB50. It was dirty! Did Rivera throw that game? He didn’t challenge nothing, much! 😞
I saw it! He did try to recover the fumble! They had plucked the got dam shit out of before then. Rivera didn’t challenge nothing much! I think Vegas paid him off to lose! Those guys who was on a podcast show said Rivera changed the game plan on Super Bowl 50! His house got caught on fire leading into the Super Bowl. Rivera let Cam be his Scapegoat. But I think he is the mfer who lost that game. He was too calm aft it. U do not supposed to hit a QB like that with no penalties! They did Cam dirty! 😞
@@MrBeenus that play still made no difference if you were watching the game tbh. people just want something to blame and that got the most replays on tv... panthers were getting beat all over. they were uncharacteristically missing tackles at initial contact, dropping passes right in their hands, getting beat on routes in man, and the offensive line looked like a slip n slide.
As a Broncos fan this was so delicious. Mr. me me me i'm superman look at me, revealed to everyone his lack of heart on the biggest stage. Justice served.
Nobody talks about how the staff made zero adjustments to block Miller. Give him a chip and you won’t have your QB getting blindsided every other play.
Excuses.....he missed a routine wide open pass the play before that would have been a first down...Or is that his lineman fault as well? The schtick on cam was always that he had no touch on the ball. He could outrun anyone. He could out throw anyone. But he could rarely ever hit a routine touch pass. That's why once his legs gave out that he didn't work out with the pats bc he was missing wide open passes.
@@user-gj6yb2qc7e outrun everyone? Need I remind you this year with wide receivers that I bet you can’t name, he THREW 36 touchdown passes which lead the league.
What are u talking about couldn’t hit wide open receivers with the Patriots? Are u kidding me? They didn’t give Cam hardly shit with the Patriots as weapons to help him. When the got new weapons in 2021, & promised them to Cam, they took them & gave them to Mac Jones. Belichick got fired with Mac Jones. Kraft promised them to Cam & changed! . Mac got traded. The Patriots are now in purgatory. How they did Cam so wrong, the chickens 🐓🐓🐓 came back to roost! 😱
Stop saying this dumb sht about Odell. He had 1300 and 12 TDs in 12 games in that season (his rookie season no less) lmao how is that riding 1 catch? His first 3 years in the league he had 4,122 yards and 35 TDs.. literal HOF pace before the injuries started. One catch though 🙄
@@yepdontcarebud ahh, but you make his point for him.... does anyone one the planet playing word association, upon hearing the name "Odell Beckham" not say "boat". Kind of like "Romo" and "Cabo"
I would have to 100% agree with this video. Cam was a tremendous athlete, but as a QB taking the type of beatings he took, and then THAT play. That singular play is EXACTLY how I remember Cam Newton.
People don't really like defensive Super Bowls, but I found SB50 to be so damn exciting. It's sad that it truly did spell the end for Cam's career, but it is what it is. Also, prime Von Miller was just unstoppable.
I remember watching that play live, and being shocked he didn't dive on it. I was looking for something in the slow mo replay right after to justify not diving on the ball, but it was clear right from the very moment that he didn't want the ball as much as others on the field.
You forgot to mention Cam’s impersonation of Grandmama as summed up by the hilarious headline in the September 13, 2019 issue of Golf Digest by Coleman Bentley. “Cam Newton dresses like 80-year-old grandmother, plays like one too”.😂
Reminds me of Ricky Waters. When he alligator armed a pass versus the Buccaneers. The press asked him why he didn’t lay out for the ball, and his response was “for who for what?“ Many think that that comment is keeping him out of the Hall of Fame.
What that game showed more than anything is how NFL teams don’t make adjustments in the Super Bowl. Check downs would’ve changed that outcome easily, but the panthers were not used to doing that. Even Olsen was running longer routes that they didn’t have time to run.
I have a new appreciation for TJ Watt. TY sir for shortening the career of the biggest showboater the NFL has ever seen. You don't need to celebrate EVERY 1st down! It was so damn annoying. In a hurry-up offense? Don't care, got to celebrate my 1st down. He did not come across as a team oriented guy.
Derick Wolf of the Broncos gave an interview with That’s Good Sports saying the Panthers tackle had a tell that allowed him and Von Miller to know if it was a pass or run play. It’s crazy to see how having the deck stacked against him destroyed Cam’s confidence at the worst possible moment
Oh this is pure comedy. It`s was so funny watching him throw a temper tantrum like a toddler in the end zone after getting harassed by Vonn Miller all game. 🤣Just pure good entertainment.
Von Miller exposed Cam that day. Miller took away Cam's will to compete. Cam was a show till he got his bell rung. Then it was towel over the head and sulk. No decent leader quits like that in front of his team. That's Cam Newton.
As a long-time suffering Saints fan, Newton posed a real and significant threat. He was a real physical force of nature, and if he had the maturity of Drew Brees or even Matt Ryan, he would have been unstoppable. I hated that he was in our division, because I secretly enjoyed watching him play and saw the enormous potential he had. He just needed the right coaching and mentorship. I will always feel that his time with the Panthers really stunted his growth and held him back.
Thanks for letting me relive the first night my wife ever saw me cry. It's tough being a fan of the Panthers. I'm also a fan of the NY Jets, in case you don't think I like suffering.
Carolina and Arizona in the NFC championship… what a time to be alive
Good times
The Cardinals were a special team that year but I’m surprised at how Carson Palmer played in that game 🥴 if our defense was better in the fourth the Giants could’ve had a solid year in 2015
We just had the lions there. If you see the Browns make the AFC game this year. We know the end of days are next 😅
@@diehardnygiantsfan6569 Something about Panthers Cardinals playoff games I guess. 7 years earlier the 12-4 Panthers matched up against the 9-7 Cards and Jake Delhomme, who had been very solid his entire career up to that point, ended up with 6 turnovers.
This game made it seem like no one was going to derail the Panthers.
I'm not even a Seahawks fan but the fact that they didn't just hand the ball to Lynch still pisses me off.
Funny enough,the pass wasthe right call, Lynch's success from the1 yard line was abysmally low while they they had about 60% or so success rate with a pass.
I heard it wasn’t the call. The call was to run.
But Russel Wilson saw something and he switched it. This was the beginning of the end for the Seahawks. After that apparently nobody respected Russ on the team. They chalked it up that he may of wanted to take the spotlight. Because statistically that day and season, Marshawn was having a night and that was a guaranteed TD.
I'm a lifelong 'Hawks fan and there is a pretty good chance that "We should have run the Goddamn ball" will be on my tombstone...
But hey, at least it wasn't the Buttfumble 🤣
Why would they when a scripted pick was called
@@supersasukemaniacHaha, no. It's the single worst call in football history.
It was second down in a 4 down situation. That alone is reason enough.
What's worse is the interviews he gave afterwards, he admitted not diving for it because he didn't want to get injured.
Which was the right call, there was no way he was recovering that SB 50 fumble without getting his brains scrambled.
They would’ve buried him if he went straight at it!
Cam did try to recover it from the side.
He didn't want to end up with a Drew Brees type injury, although injuries did him in years later
@@kaminsod4077 I just can't not imagine going for it in a Super Bowl.
@@kaminsod4077it's the super bowl. Wrong call and a soft one
I have a friend who will be receiving this video in their inbox at least 4 times a week for the next 6 months.
Lol
He aint diving on no emails LOL
You're a cruel MFer. I like it! 🤣
You're a friend of Cam?
I think you mean you have a soon to be ex-friend.
Cam made a “business decision” not diving for the ball after the strip. As a Broncos fan, I am grateful.
Cam is a dude known for taking hits that men typing on keyboards would die from so of course everyone is going to say he is soft for not diving head first on a ball where linebackers are waiting to kill you, of course he didn't put his head on the ball lmao
Youre so soft lmao@@kevinleewilliams5119
That was a very good "business decision"....... for the Broncos.
@@kevinleewilliams5119If he's known for taking big hits, then why didn't he dive for the ball in the SUPER BOWL? You know, the championship game. The biggest NFL game of the year. John Elway got helicoptered at almost 40 years old in the Super Bowl because he wanted to win. Clearly, it wasn't that important to Cam.
@@kevinleewilliams5119 The only thing I can think of to defend his move is that maybe he was expecting the ball to pop out and go rolling away. The big guys are not the best at securing the football.
I knew immediately when reading the title what play he was talking about. That broncos defense was legit though.
Von Miller took Newton's soul on a hit in the first quarter. Miller was always the better player, and as for Newton going 1 & Miller 2, I guess he took that personally...
We had the best secondary and pass rush duo at the time. Pretty much didnt have a single defensive weakness. Damn I miss them days..
Broncos D was impressive but you still have to dive on a fumble if it means a chance at a ring
@@wgriffin3460that wouldn’t have happened if the refs weren’t on the broncos side. Cochery caught the ball and you know it lol
@@brandonnilsson3 a great point, a 50/50 call 8 minutes into the game was absolutely the turning point, I'll get in touch with the Broncos so they can start the process of returning their rings.
“While the big ten west fans were watching the greatest shootout of all time!”💀
I don’t get it
@@Ahkloaded nobody scores in the big ten west so a 10-17 game is like a shootout to see who will score the most points
@@KPKING_1that was corny asf 🤣👎🏽
@@Ahkloaded have you seen scores from most Iowa Hawkeyes games? Think that. They are the epitome of the joke.
"what they thought was" you killed the quote my guy.
Legend has it. his soul is still sitting in a champagne bottle in the broncos training facility.
I was a diehard Panthers fan. This was a dream come true for me. This one play single-handedly killed my love for football.
This is why I hate the broncos
@@LXD.0 Why hate on the Broncos? They were underdogs, Cam was coming off his best year, he got the MVP and had some gold shoes he had made for himself to go with the gold MVP shirt he also had made. What could go wrong? When Cam went #1 Von went #2 and he annihilated Cam in every game they played against each other. So why not SB50? Maybe you should hate Von.
As a hawks fan... "intercepted at the goal line by Malcolm butler!" That was agony....
Same. I went from being a die hard Panthers fan to just saying I watch all 32 teams equally, that play took my heart out of being a “fan”
I mean it was 3 and 9 from like their own 14 vs an insane Broncos defense. That play didn't have much chance of changing anything
Yes, I remember well that play. Minutes left in the game with the Panthers having a real chance to be Super Bowl champions, and he refused to dive after that loose ball. That play took Cam Newton off my list of the greatest all time quarterbacks in NFL history.
Why was he on the list in the first place
@@Benjiizusbc he knows nothing about football
He could have just stood there frozen like he was in shock but actually moving out of the way was the killer.
I agree it looks bad, but you never know what he was thinking. Even he probably doesn't know, it happened so fast. Ultimately the ball did squirt out and he had a better chance standing up than laying down. He was kind of a dick before and after that, but it's hard for me to judge the guy solely based on 100milliseconds of his career. If you think that moment is symbolic of his behavior for the rest of his career, fine. But in that case it's just your symbol, it isn't the entire basis of your opinion.
@@markdavis7397 Really! Those situations define what a player is made of. QBs that are team leaders, do what ever it takes to win. Cam (really Can not) proved to everyone he was never a leader of the team.
@@davidroman1654If you don’t think Cam lead and single handedly changed the trajectory of the Panthers in a positive way and onto the Super Bowl, then you might not know ball
Team leaders make sacrifices for the team. Steve Yzerman won the Stanley Cup while playing with a knee so bad he needed his stick to get up from the ice. Yzerman slud in front of slapshots to block the shot, even being hit in the face with a puck. When your team captain makes sacrifices to win, the team will follow. Don't play the sport if you don't want the possibility of getting injured.
@@LND209 where are the panthers now? lol trajectory.
One play can very much ruin a career. Just ask Jim Marshall why he isn’t in the HOF despite being one of the best linemen of his era.
Jim Marshall isn’t in the HOF??
@@Kyeuss Nope
@@lonelychameleon3595 damn
@@lonelychameleon3595If this ain’t about the wrong way fiasco, idk why else Marshall ain’t in Canton. The Vikings still won that game against the Niners
If he'd quit being a bitch about hit maybe he would've gone before Bud died. Vanishing in Super Bowls didn't help. I'm not anti viking, I actually think Buds perspective on this sport should be taking up by more of us. Look here we are talking about a game. Game. (Addictive to watch but still a game) fun fact Alan page helped make the 85 bears possible.
Do you know what would make for a good video? how cursed NFC South QBs are from 2015-2019. Cam Newton and Matt Ryan winning MVP back to back as QBs from the same division having career-defining losses and moments in the super bowl that changed their trajectory from borderline first ballot HOFers to potentially not even getting in. Then the Saints suffering back to back heartbreaks in the playoffs with the Minneapolis Miracle and the no call PI against the Rams leading to the end of Drew Brees career, then the Buccaneers and Jameis Winston having the 30 for 30 TD-INT season. I don’t think any group of fans in the same division have had to endure that much suffering in any 4-5 year stretch in football, it would be a fascinating video to make
This is a really interesting idea. I remember all of those happening but never thought about how it was all the same division.
or how rigged football is. They could even do that SCOTUS case where the bench said basically "yeah its fake but they can do that because it is registered sports entertainment like wrestling"
@@BlorbusUnimax It would literally be more work and cost more money to make those things happen, than for them to just happen by chance. The amount of people you would need coordinating to pull it off and yet not a single one, current or former, has come out to blow the whistle on it?
If it was just one play, though at an extremely crucial point in the game where the potential circle of guilty parties is relatively small, and some Saints fans have alleged someone like Goodell, having this sinister, shadowy, villianous, Mafia don control of NFL operations, would make sure that any paper trail, incriminating phone calls, e-mails, documents involving perpetrators and officials was eliminated so even if someone lets say did come forward, like a former NFL assistant exec who had some involvement or knowledge but not intimately came forward later on with these allegations 5-10 years later: where's his proof? Because they'd be making serious allegations on an event where a good portion of incriminating evidence has been eliminated and no longer exists and even if some of the primary few antagonists do eventually come out and c!aim subterfuge, too much time would have passed and the Teflon NFL behemoth could deny and publicly refute them that it becomes a PR war that they'd find a way to emerge unscathed. If they were to suffer some backlash and damage, so what? Its an acceptable loss, look at how they've handled the CTE controversy over a decade ago from an image perspective and the Colin Kaepernick's "social justice" protest movement where many NFL players started refusing to stand for the national anthem and it wasnt until the larger George Floyd riots in 2020 that validated their position. They offered meaningful, significant "band aid" solutions long enough and to such an extent until these issues gradually faded away or lost their potency that they began resuming the same policies, albeit more quietly.
Their are maybe a few other things I could say about Goodell as it relates to this damning controversy but it's best to not go down that road because I don't want to make myself more upset.
@@ThiefOfOranges it already happened, that is a real case. jets fan. NFL is registered sports entertainment so they can rig seasons and storylines...that is a fact, it is not conjecture.
Following the Super Bowl loss, the very first regular season game of the next season was a re-match between the Broncos and Panthers in Denver. It was a 20-21 loss for the Panthers in another defensive slugfest that once again saw Newton abused. I've always thought that might have contributed to the soul-crushing he suffered after the SB loss. Here he had a small chance at redemption - but fell short again at the hands of the same Von Miller-led defense. Probably was a little cruel for the NFL to schedule that game.
You mean when they head hunted him and the officials were like yeah that’s fine
If only Gano didn’t miss the game winning FG
They allowed all that shit on Cam Newton!
Coach Rivera didn’t do much to stand up for Cam, neither.
Coach Matt Rhule threw Cam under the bus! He later gave a half a*s apology of how he blamed Cam.
2020, When Brady left the Patriots, they shoved all that
pre-existing bs off on Cam’s plate.
They really f*cked him
Up.
They did Mac Jones much better & helped him get a trade!
Cam was the one who said, "If you don't like me dancing in the end zone, then stop me." The Broncos said, "Bet!"
@@tommym3886 Exactly lmao
As someone who has lived in the Carolinas my entire life... Both super bowl appearances have been losses at the hands of two of the goats in Brady and Manning. But I feel Jake got them closer to winning than Cam ever did.
I've seen many panther games with cam at the helm, and that fumble and hesitation is what I think k of any time someone mentions Cam.
As a life long Bronco fan.... I love it.
It's insulting to put Jake Delhomme in same sentence as Scam Newton --- Jake played his balls off and almost won that Super Bowl against Brady
Jake is my all time favorite. He always played with so much heart.@@fredwerza3478
That Denver Super Bowl was Cam finally running into a stacked defense that season where the opposing QB didn't sh*t the bed.
Wow, saved this vid at 1k views and now it’s at 250k. Came back just to comment how well done this video is and now I must also say congratulations on the positive reception! You deserve it, truly excellent work
Newton made a business decision and he lost. I saw Joe Namath try to make a tackle once and hurt his already fragile knee. Asked by a reporter why he’d do that, he said, “ because I’m a football player man!” That’s what Newton is lacking!
Joe got himself a broken arm once while making a tackle. He had guts. Took a beating every week.
Same with Brees. Tore his rotator cuff recovering a fumble
Just watching the '85 Bears season. Jim McMahon is not only running like a RB, he's out in front throwing blocks on some plays.
Old school NFL players cared more about winning than making money --- everything got WORSE after 2000 when it became all about the "brand"
Cam was always a “me first” guy. Everything he said and everything he did made that obvious. Not surprised he picked number 1 for his jersey number because for him, it was always all about him, everyone and everything else came second. That play shows you exactly who he was, unwilling to put his body on the line for his team for a chance to come back and win the biggest game of his career. His ego was about as big as you’ll ever see while his character was about as lacking as you’ll ever see. That’ single play really tells you all you need to know about Cam Newton.
Well actually if you listen to his interview on Shay Shay you will learn the reason why he didn’t pick #2 again following college.
@@Maestro1886although he was spot off on the jersey, he was spot on with everything else.
@@TheOfficialRandomGuy you’re probably right. I wish I was from the timeline where Cam got #2 and dived on the fumble.
bro cam wanted #2
Can you be any bigger of a hater?
One play absolutely can (and has) destroy a career. Leon Lett, Mark Sanchez, Chase Young (go watch him get bullied by Kansas City down the stretch), Mac Jones, you do something dumb enough or careless enough and you'll be cast out of the league pretty quick
Don't forget Jim Marshal returning a fumble the wrong way.
@@MrBeenus I couldn't remember his name! I might be wrong, but I feel like people started calling him "Wrong Way Marshall" or something like that so much his actual name gets forgotten! Another one I'm ashamed I forgot: Cody Parkey, aka the kicker of the famous "double doink." Along those same lines , Scott Norwood too for the infamous "wide right" super bowl miss
@@MrBeenus Marshall’s career was not ruined in the least. He played for 20 seasons, 6 of them after the fumble return. He was certainly embarrassed but it didn’t effect him in the long term.
@@99somerville Ok but he is pretty much solely remembered for that play. He isn't in the Hall of Fame. You would think a player that had such an illustrious would be in the HOF. You're crazy if you don't think the play is the reason for his snub. That play defined his legacy as a player. So that play did in fact affect him long term.
Those TWO plays (the fumble and the play in the snow against Miami on Thranksgiving)still remain footnotes in Leon Lett's solid career.
I have a pretty good idea having had the opportunity to observe Cam personally at a single event that it was not just one play. That may have raised public awareness, but Cam had ego, entitlement and priority problems long before that play.
? Evidence from said event or anything in the past???
Cam acted big & tough when he thought he had the physical advantage, but he cowered otherwise.
@@theevermind when did he act like this? And yes not going for the fumble is kind of Jay Cutler-esque, but they were not only going to lose, but his career goes down the drain if he does that as well.
Yeah that play was tough to see. We all at the crib yelling “Cam jump on the ball!!!”. That was a legacy defying moment.
Pats fan here. He was a disaster in New England. I remember when the Pats were 4th and goal, game on the line, Cam takes the hike, he can’t decide whether to run or pass, his hesitation got him sacked. Game lost, no playoffs. Ugh
Scam Newton got boo'd a lot in New England, and I love that
Cam's lack of development as a passer erased his career. Once the legs and the elite arm strength were gone, he wasnt even worth being a backup and was out of the league in short order. He got by on physical gifts alone and had nothing else to fall back on. The Dez Bryant of quarterbacks.
that sounds like every athlete that falls off lol "athletic person isn't athletic anymore" what happened?!!
@@KillenEMsoftly No not the same thing cuz being qb isnt all about speed and arm strength. The best qbs win with their mind and mental mastery over the game. The best qbs age gracefully because they can compensate for diminishing physical traits with mental prowess in order to prolong their careers. Cam never developed a mental mastery over the game so once those physical traits diminished his career nosedived.
@@williamhermann6635 You need some mental ability to be able to reach the "mental mastery: of the game. Cam was very lacking in this quality. He was big and could run. Another Running Back trying to play Quarterback. Just was never really a top QB in the NFL.
@@davidroman1654 My point exactly lol
This statement is not true check the record book
That one play exemplified Newton's entire outlook and attitude.
Then why did the Panthers draft him dummy ? We know who wouldn't be a GM of an NFL team 😂
"Known QB savants"
That drive by tho 😂
Can’t let the Browns have anything nice
@@IsaacPuntsand hey you need to bring up the fact that Cam Newton ran Steve Smith out of town who still had three good years left in him well too good seasons and he was hurt the last one but he still managed up 800 yd almost. But Cam Newton ran him out of town because cam wanted to be the leader of the team not the best player in franchise history
Cam was arrogant. I remember watching this play live and feeling like it was the perfect “pride goes before a fall” moment.
Dude superman celly-ed like CMC and the factor of "being unknown" wasn't on their side. Bro was nothing after that 15-1 season
@@zach23izeThat’s just false. He continued to put up great numbers after the 2015 season. He was on pace to be better than his 2015 MVP season in 2016 until JJ Watt drilled his shoulder. Even after that, Cam continued to put up good numbers. He didn’t really “fall off” up until 2019
and now he looks like he's a character in harry potter
Who dresses that fucking guy. I try to watch his clips but he dresses like a fucking circus barker. I am by no means a fashion expert but that guy has lost touch with all reality like every day is Halloween or something
maybe those spider
Im so glad this vid exists cause I said this back in 2015. This was inexcusable. I have no horse in this race not a fan of either team. Not trying to dive on that fumble was bottom of the barrel unacceptable. I've heard people try to argue "well he's trying to save his body from injury for the future". Bro what future this is the fourth quarter of the super bowl this is what you play for! There is no tomorrow. There is nothing to save for! As a kid in you play in your backyard with your friends making up scenarios like this. There is no saving or playing for next week. The game was still 16-10. A single touchdown takes the lead and he backed off the fumble. Unreal. So heart breaking as a general fan to see. Was it cowardice, admitting defeat to a superior team, or something else idk. it changed Cam and changed how we view him.
That means u don’t know football.
He did try to get it! They don’t show it!
Will Brady be defined by Deflategate?
Peyton by PED’s?
Brett Favre stealing from the poor?
Mac Jones hitting men in their private n*t sack? 😱
I always tell people this but they always say "hE wAs AvOiDiNg iNjUrY" like, no.
I don't think he was trying to avoid injury. He literally didn't have time to process something like that to make a conscious choice. I think he just thought the ball was gonna squirt out with the two guys jumping at it, and he tried to anticipate that so he could get it when it came out. And it literally did exactly that, he just couldn't get to it. I think it just looks way worse than it actually was.
@@ThiefOfOranges Slow motion makes everything easy for the armchair QBs. It was about 2 seconds from "where's my ball" through "oh, they're piling it" to "I lost it again". That's not a lot of time, as you said.
Be a little bit more dramatic why don't you, Cam recovers this ball and the Broncos have like a 95% chance of winning the game still and nothing about Cam's falloff after 2015 is impacted at all
The way people talk about Cam, you'd think he was a top 20 QB all time despite him not even being a top 10 QB when he played. Not sure what people think they saw, but Cam was never anything outside of one season. There's no injuries to blame. No superbowl choke to blame. He just simply wasn't the amazing QB you for whatever think you was.
Truth
Maybe so, but he won MVP in 2015 you gotta give him some cred dude. And what weapons he had besides Greg Olson and aging Steve Smith -nobody. Broncos had No 1 D that’s how they won SB -not Peyton. Keep it real.
I'm picking mvp cam over 99% of any other Qb to play the game, cam during that season wasn't being stopped.
What are you talking about? Of course he was a Top 10 QB when he played. He was 2 minutes away from being 16-0 in the regular season and still could have won that Super Bowl. Tell me the 10 QBs better than him in that 3 year stretch where he had an MVP.
@@kevinleewilliams5119 So you'll take Winston over Rogers, Breez, Manning, Brady, Wilson, Mahomes, haha yeah you're trolling
One can only call it a tragedy if you believe that he deserved better. His father's church got a hefty donation so he would come to Auburn in the 1st place. Auburn boosters donated over $50k to his dad's church and poof he arrived at Auburn. Newton was a prima donna and could read the signs at UF that there were at least 2 leaders at the QB position better/more of team players than him so he got shopped around. His dad asked for over $150k to go to Mississippi State, btw. His heisman season should have been counted null and void. Cam got drafted and it wasn't his skill that took them to the Super Bowl, in fact he rarely did very well in most playoff games. He was underwhelming often and would choke a lot in the playoffs. This one play actually brought light to the type of player he truly was, not erased a great career.
Concerning the college stuff: Now that we’re in the era of NIL college football (and especially in the SEC) no one cared/cares about Cams dad getting a check except pearl clutchers. Also, the NCAA investigated the whole thing and it was a loophole since the donation didn’t go to Cam and they couldn’t prove he was involved or benefiting from it. More of a question about his dad than about him.
As for Florida. People leave all the time when they don’t like their spot on the depth chart. More likely he left UF because of the laptop incident, which is the only real problem to have had with him in college.
It’s hard to argue he wasn’t one of the most electric players since Reggie Bush, but sometimes people don’t pan out in the big leagues. See Tebow or Manziel.
@@ImJoegathWe're in the era of NIL bullshit because of Cam and those like him, people who weren't content with receiving an all expense paid education from a well respected institution in exchange for playing sports. Now, in addition to having their entire time at university paid for, they are being given unspeakable amounts of cash and zero incentive to consider the likely chance that they will never play professionally.
@@Riley_Mundt considering how much money football players bring in for universities, how much risk they take on, and exactly *because* many of them will never play professionally, they should be eligible to be paid.
Education is valuable, but even just from a supply/demand perspective, there’s orders of magnitude more people that earn full rides by scoring a 32 on their ACT than can claim to be at the upper echelon of college football.
@@ImJoegath Considering the vast majority of the money brought in by the football program is used to pay for the rest of the athletics programs at the university, all these kids are doing is screwing over the rest of their fellow athletes.
The fact most will never be professionals is why they should focus on the reason they are there, their education. It is not an excuse to hand multi-million dollar bribes to amateur athletes.
@@ImJoegath shopping your son around to the highest bidder is anti-thetical to the entire premise of college football, which is supposed to be about loyalty to school and team --- it would be the same thing as shopping your daughter around to the man who offers the most money to marry her, instead of letting her choose which man she wants based on her own values and internal feelings
In Preseason you do this. 4th Quarter of a SB you DIVE on the ball. pure and simple. remember John Elway Helicopter Dive Super Bowl against Packers. 3rd and six in a 17-17 tie and he goes for it and pays as he runs for 8 yard and dives for the first down. he wasnt a pussy like Cam Newton.
I agree it looks bad, but you never know what he was thinking. Even he probably doesn't know, it happened so fast. Ultimately the ball did squirt out and he had a better chance standing up than laying down.
Anyway, it's hard for me to judge the guy solely based on 100milliseconds of his career. I didn't have a high opinion of his behavior before this incident, but this didn't change it much. But having said that....I instantly knew from the headline which 100milliseconds of his career would be the topic of the video, lol.
I think calling Cam Newton a pussy is a bit rich.
The fact that you knew says it all. If Man Utd players pull out of important key moments like this we label them bottle jobs@@markdavis7397
@@markdavis7397 Cam not jumping on the ball shows that he had a love for the fame, not for the game. He knowingly walked away from that game not giving 100% effort. Had he dove for it, and still lost it, he wouldn't be clowned for it. He was clowned because he squatted down, then stutter stepped away from it
Not to mention Elway was 38 at that time, a real old bone in gridiron years.
Cam thrives on his ego. As long as he feels like a super hero and he’s getting all the attention, he plays well. As soon as things start going down hill and he looks bad, he spirals. He was thriving on that that whole season. Then when he was humbled, he never recovered. He then switched to the Pats and came in with the same mindset of “I’m gonna be a hero and save the Pats”. Didn’t go as planned and he never did well. Then he gets traded back to Carolina and gets to be the hero again returning to his old team. He was good for a couple of games and then got humbled again.
I just remember that whenever the Panthers were losing he would sulk on the sideline and the whole team would collapse after that.
2018 was literally a better season for him than 2015. He didn’t “fall off” until 2019 after he destroyed his shoulder
Cam being a big spoiled baby in the post game did it for me. Feelings😢
Didn't he act like a spoiled baby after most losses?
That was the worst part for me --- it's one thing to punk out by not diving on a fumble --- but at least own up to it at the presser after the game --- he was a CRYBABY
Remember this play vividly, thought " he gave up"... Lost so much respect for him that day
L comment. Did you not see the 100's of other times he would put his life on the line for a W? He was nowhere near a proper fumble recovery position anyways.
@@jgavpercussion and they all meant nothing after this one play. If you can't do it in the biggest game, at the most important time, it means nothing. He had the best shot of recovering that of anyone on his team.
And he was extremely mediocre the rest of his career. This mentally broke him.
@@3377ftw my cousin and I talk about this sometimes he always says Von Miller took Cams soul.
Even if he dove he wouldn't have been able to get the ball. 2 other guys dove and didn't get the ball
Guess be careful, Cam lost @3377ftw s respect. Cmon bro, if one play, 100 milliseconds caused you to lose all respect for someone even after all the hard earned success they had beforehand, you might need to do some self reflection
I'll always remember being at SB50 and buying Broncos merchandise; all the Panthers fans laughing and making fun of me before the game, saying the Broncos didn't stand a chance. The most satisfying SB I've ever watched.
after that Broncos SB against Seattle a few years prior, I just had a feeling the Broncos D would shut down Cam and the Panthers in the same way, it was the most satisfying slog of a defensive game I've ever watched haha
I watched it from home and in the pregame i saw Cam wearing the gold shoes. That was the moment I knew the Broncos would prevail. To win a Super Bowl you have to play your best game of the year. The leader of the Panthers (and obviously many others) thought it was a coronation and thus failed in focus. Whereas the Broncos came in with grit and determination to win and stop the Panthers only real weapon, Cam.
@@bryangutierrez3745 I'm not gonna lie, I didn't have high hopes for the Broncos; the Panthers had been looking unstoppable in the post-season up until that point. One thing I did know is that the Panthers had never encountered such an overwhelming defense as what the Broncos had. Patton was actually quite pedestrian in the game but with that "D" he didn't need to do much anyway.
Pretty typical of the front-running style Cam inspired.
Living in Carolina and watching all the dabbing goin on, it was beautiful seeing Cam and the Panthers unfold! When the Orange Crush shut Brady down, I knew Cam was done…
he had like one legitimately great season, and maybe one or two other good seasons. his career is insanely overinflated.
He reminds me of Russell Westbrook. Won the genetic lottery but wasn't quite able to put in enough work to be truly great
Man i said that the entire time we had him and now we miss again by drafting fucking Bryce Young!
@@JB1717He was a rookie. Don’t act like the Panthers were one piece away from winning it all. They were 29-51 combined in the 5 seasons before he was drafted. You get one decent year from Cam in 2015 and think you’ve arrived. Cam was big and athletic, that is all. He couldn’t pass to save his life. It was a bullet pass or nothing-zero touch on the ball. You’re still the Carolina Panthers. Don’t forget that.
Cam was the man back then, I didn't know how long he could play the way he played but he was the f****** man.
@@JB1717 i genuinely don't know how the entire world didn't realize my boy CJ was the chosen one. didn't watch him at ohio state i guess. mechanics, poise, size, arm, dude's had it all from the day he first started at osu. bama hype got to tepper is all i can think. didn't your coach say he wanted to draft CJ?
You nailed it. As a broncos fan I was shocked when he didn’t dive.
Cam did try to recover that fumble. They only showed part of it!
They were jealous of Cam.
Blistering haters have done him dirty. The NFL, Coaches didn’t protect Cam. They protected the White QBs. They left Cam to die!
As a non bronco or carolina fan, I was shocked when he didn't dive for the ball. I don't think I have ever seen that level of cowardice on such a big stage and such a big moment.
Cam
Is no Coward!
He is a top, winning, professional athlete!
Stop ur BS!
@@elizabethgodfrey1033 You are totally correct. Which is why I was so shocked when he did that because he doesn't normally act cowardly. Unfortunately he did this one time and he did it on the biggest stage.
@@elizabethgodfrey1033 you're such a liar --- everyone laughs at Scam for being a coward
Cam leading that team to 15-1 record and even making it to playoffs with that team let alone the Super Bowl is nuts
They were good that year? No team flukes their way to 15 wins
The defense carried that team, what are you on about?
Idk why now it seems that people are pretending that this panthers team was the equivalent of the 2018 cavs. They had a stacked defense and good supporting cast around Newton even if they weren’t big names. And they had a pretty easy path to the SB while playing in the NFC South. Not saying Cam wasn’t one of the best players in the league this year but he didn’t drag this team or anything crazy
@@Lazyboy5298Cam threw for 35 TDs and rushed for 10 with his best receiver being Ted Ginn Jr. You really have no clue what you’re talking about.
@wv4776 He wasn't one of the best he was voted as THE best from his peers in the NFLthat year. Nice attempt at discrediting him, he put the offense on his back all season.
The shot at the big ten fans was uncalled for lol 😂
People forget Cam fractured his back in a car crash a year and a half before this. I’ve never broke my back but I tore my ACL twice playing football and I assure you, when you suffer an injury like that you never truly trust your body again.
After I tore my ACL for the first time at best I was 85-90% of the player I once was. I still remember cams press conference when he admitted he didn’t want to get hurt, shit hit close to home for me but if we’re being honest I’d tear my ACL for a 3rd time in a heartbeat if I somehow made it to the league and into a Super Bowl game
Yes, the arm chair players are being way too rough on him. Let's see them dive in there and get that ball.
You see the same thing at the end of the 2014 divisional playoff game between Carolina and Seattle. After Kam Chancellor picked off Newton in the fourth quarter, Newton gives up the pursuit, and effectively ends the season as well. Nice video.
I think the punt he did for Auburn needs to be included in a video thanks, Isaac Punts!
As a broncos fan, this brings me so much joy
The amazing thing about Cam is that his career got better and better the more he dabbled in women's fashion and became focused on his brand
YES!! I am so glad this is getting the attention it deserves. That one play truly erased anything that man accomplished, Thank You!
If Cam Newton has no haters then I'm dead. Reliving his downfall as a Broncos fan just takes me back to better days where they were good enough to ruin someone's career.
I saw that play live (when Cam stepped back from the fumble against the Broncos) and remember being quite surprised that Cam would just seemingly cower away from the ball like that.
100%. Glad you made this video. Cam was never the same after he chose himself over the team and fans. He chose not to jump on that ball.
As a forever Panthers fan I had a hard time deciding if I wanted to watch this. If we ever win one it will go on the back burner but never be forgotten.
Patriots fan here. The 2003 Super Bowl was the greatest ever. The Panthers deserve a lot of credit for how great it was. Pinnacle of the sport as far as balance between old school physical football and newer passing and safety rules. Two of the greatest teams top to bottom throughout the rosters. Great coaching on both sides. Thanks to the Panthers for that one.
0:17 He drugged his teammates??? 💉
😅😅hahha. I just saw your comment when I heard hum say it
Broncos defense was so elite it crushed this mans career. I think he was MVP too.
SB50 Broncos D is objectively the best D in history.
I remember that play so vividly. Ruined him for me that day
I was there
listening to the broadcasters turn on newton after that play was incredible. they spent the entire game glazing him then he moved away and it all just stopped. incredible for me as a broncos fan
The Denver/Carolina super bowl was probably my favorite one to watch. Trench warfare indeed!
The play hurt a lot, as it was the closest I've ever seen to where you could say a player on his level, in a still winnable game, quit. It felt like Cam made a business decision and the only way you make that business decision is if you think the game is over, you just can't score on this defense. But I think Phillips also created the blueprint for stopping Cam at that time as Wade was the first person to decide to just ignore Cam's Scrambling and bring the edge heat against vulnerable tackles of the panthers. It seemed obvious afterwords that Cam was a great runner, but his running was always designed runs not scrambling, but that game was when everyone seemed to just realize it at once. Good video.
More precisely, he turned yellow and ran away. He acted like it was a live grenade.
Completely agree about how this play changed his career and how Carolina fans saw him. All Carolina fans could not understand how he did not dive for that ball. A lot of people overlook how the Michael Ohr injury transformed the team after he got hurt with multiple concussions and would never play again. This would create the terrible left tackle situation that would eventually lead to the offensive line turning to crap and cause Cam to be pounded. His legacy will be that he was a great runner and played hero ball well, but they had to go get him tall receivers because he was inaccurate. He really made a living throwing the ball deep to Ted Ginn and across the middle to Greg Olsen, but sideline throws were always very inaccurate and where most of his interceptions came from. Once he got the arm injury it was unfortunately the beginning of the end since he could no longer play hero ball and throw the deep pass. When he had to rely on short and intermediate patterns that required timing, it turned really bad.
I remember watching Super Bowl 50 on tv and in the 3rd quarter they flashed a stat on the screen, the Broncos defense had more QB hurries up to that point in the 3rd quarter than the total of all of the Panthers other playoff games combined.
Watching Cam Newton's career spiral into nothing after he acted like an immature clown his entire life was truly satisfying. Still the Same Immature baby to this day, just watch his TH-cam Channel.
Yeah if he just dressed better people would be talking about him a lot better
It's a lot of you assholes in the comment section I see. Tom Brady or Kermit the Frog throwing tablets and breaking shit for calls is GOAT status but Cam was throwing "temper tantrums" 😂
My brother and I have been Panthers fans since they were born. I remember watching that strip sack, and we both were yelling to dive on it!! Man, it's been rough ever since. Last year was brutal. I'm trying to be optimistic this go around. Either way I'll be watching every Sunday! Keep Pounding!!
That play, that game made me abandon my love for that franchise. That was my squad too since Chris Gamble, Musin Muhammad, Deshaun Foster, Jon Beason, Ju Peppers etc….but that game play/game took something from me I’ll never be able to explain in terms of the Panthers franchise. Now I just watch football all around
@CoachDoug100 made me lose respect for Cam, but not the panthers. I'll always be a ride or die panthers fan. Even after watching that shit show last season lol.
Steve Smith is definitely my favorite WR in recent memory
Forever grateful for Cam Newton and what he did for the Panthers
These old haters making this old video for something 8 yrs ago.
That fumble didn’t lose that game.
He did try to recover it. They didn’t show it all!
Cam has a lot of enemies!
The Refs let Cam get abused in SB50. It was dirty!
Did Rivera throw that game? He didn’t challenge nothing, much! 😞
@@elizabethgodfrey1033Did we even watch the same play? He literally jumped back.
I saw it! He did try to recover the fumble!
They had plucked the got dam shit out of before then. Rivera didn’t challenge nothing much! I think Vegas paid him off to lose! Those guys who was on a podcast show said Rivera changed the game plan on Super Bowl 50! His house got caught on fire leading into the Super Bowl. Rivera let Cam be his Scapegoat. But I think he is the mfer who lost that game. He was too calm aft it.
U do not supposed to hit a QB like that with no penalties! They did Cam dirty! 😞
@@elizabethgodfrey1033scam newton got his poop pushed in and played scared. He's a career loser
@@MrBeenus that play still made no difference if you were watching the game tbh. people just want something to blame and that got the most replays on tv... panthers were getting beat all over.
they were uncharacteristically missing tackles at initial contact, dropping passes right in their hands, getting beat on routes in man, and the offensive line looked like a slip n slide.
As a Broncos fan this was so delicious. Mr. me me me i'm superman look at me, revealed to everyone his lack of heart on the biggest stage. Justice served.
0:18 - That's"dragged" (not "drug"). Come on!
I heard that too and winced.
I'll never forget watching that play live. I was stunned
Nobody talks about how the staff made zero adjustments to block Miller. Give him a chip and you won’t have your QB getting blindsided every other play.
Demarcus Ware was terrorizing the other side. Michael Oher and the other tackle got completely destroyed all ñight long
Excuses.....he missed a routine wide open pass the play before that would have been a first down...Or is that his lineman fault as well? The schtick on cam was always that he had no touch on the ball. He could outrun anyone. He could out throw anyone. But he could rarely ever hit a routine touch pass. That's why once his legs gave out that he didn't work out with the pats bc he was missing wide open passes.
@@user-gj6yb2qc7e outrun everyone? Need I remind you this year with wide receivers that I bet you can’t name, he THREW 36 touchdown passes which lead the league.
@itisnottaken4444 what are you even arguing here? Nothing you said had anything to do with what that guy was saying.
What are u talking about couldn’t hit wide open receivers with the Patriots? Are u kidding me? They didn’t give Cam hardly shit with the Patriots as weapons to help him.
When the got new weapons in 2021, & promised them to Cam, they took them & gave them to Mac Jones. Belichick got fired with Mac Jones. Kraft promised them to Cam & changed! . Mac got traded. The Patriots are now in purgatory. How they did Cam so wrong, the chickens 🐓🐓🐓 came back to roost! 😱
bro your narrating is top tier
0:02 one play … Odel Beckham jr road one catch in one regular season game that he lost to superstardom. Also David Tyrell but his was deserved.
Stop saying this dumb sht about Odell. He had 1300 and 12 TDs in 12 games in that season (his rookie season no less) lmao how is that riding 1 catch?
His first 3 years in the league he had 4,122 yards and 35 TDs.. literal HOF pace before the injuries started.
One catch though 🙄
*rode
@@yepdontcarebud ahh, but you make his point for him.... does anyone one the planet playing word association, upon hearing the name "Odell Beckham" not say "boat". Kind of like "Romo" and "Cabo"
I would have to 100% agree with this video. Cam was a tremendous athlete, but as a QB taking the type of beatings he took, and then THAT play. That singular play is EXACTLY how I remember Cam Newton.
Top that off with the post game presser and it was over. Von Miller stole his soul.
Commenting for the algo because this is the best channel out there.
What a great thumbnail!
Yes, ask Bill Buckner. He was a really good player and had a long career but will always be remembered for that one ground ball
Except Buckner didn't try to quit, he just made en error
He quit on the field during the SB and he's the QB. What you showed wasn't the only play he quit on, your not being honest.
the difference is that. THIS WAS THE PLAY. THE play. and that was when we knew he gave up
Gotta admit, he was one of my favorites to watch growing up. From the moment he broke my heart against Oregon I knew he was gonna be a great player.
It took 3:20 for me to realize I don’t give a shit about the cam newton story
At 3:20 I felt the same thing and your comment popped up at the same time! LOL
People don't really like defensive Super Bowls, but I found SB50 to be so damn exciting. It's sad that it truly did spell the end for Cam's career, but it is what it is.
Also, prime Von Miller was just unstoppable.
Bill Buckner called and said "ha-ha!"
There has never been a more accurate description of a video on TH-cam than this one. Scam Newton turned into a joke
I CAN'T WATCH ONE FOOTBALL VIDEO WITHOUT SEEING THAT PLAY
-A Seahawks Fan
I'm sure you're tired of catching random strays, but for what it's worth, I rewrote history for you
You sound like a Nasty hater & Peyton Fanboy!
@@IsaacPunts I appreciate it. I stg almost every historical football video references that thing. The one time I thought I was free and clear: Wham
If it makes you feel any better, as a Patriots fan I can hardly watch a video without seeing the helmet catch 😂
As a Jets fan, I'm at least glad the Butt Fumble wasn't during a Super Bowl or I'd be saying the same thing.
I remember watching that play live, and being shocked he didn't dive on it. I was looking for something in the slow mo replay right after to justify not diving on the ball, but it was clear right from the very moment that he didn't want the ball as much as others on the field.
You forgot to mention Cam’s impersonation of Grandmama as summed up by the hilarious headline in the September 13, 2019 issue of Golf Digest by Coleman Bentley. “Cam Newton dresses like 80-year-old grandmother, plays like one too”.😂
That’s really why he’s not thought of better he started really dressing like a clown right as his career slid
Cam is an absolute legend. Far from a failure by any standard
Thank you cam for not jumping on the only ball that mattered in your flamboyant life
Reminds me of Ricky Waters. When he alligator armed a pass versus the Buccaneers. The press asked him why he didn’t lay out for the ball, and his response was “for who for what?“ Many think that that comment is keeping him out of the Hall of Fame.
What that game showed more than anything is how NFL teams don’t make adjustments in the Super Bowl. Check downs would’ve changed that outcome easily, but the panthers were not used to doing that. Even Olsen was running longer routes that they didn’t have time to run.
This was the greatest moment in my entire life as a broncos fan
bro calling out us big ten west fans! We do exist, I'm glad to be recognized. lolol
I love big 10 west football
@@IsaacPunts Go Hawkeyes!!
"Cam finally had a physical womb to compliment the emotional one" *Emotional damage*
I have a new appreciation for TJ Watt. TY sir for shortening the career of the biggest showboater the NFL has ever seen. You don't need to celebrate EVERY 1st down! It was so damn annoying. In a hurry-up offense? Don't care, got to celebrate my 1st down. He did not come across as a team oriented guy.
Derick Wolf of the Broncos gave an interview with That’s Good Sports saying the Panthers tackle had a tell that allowed him and Von Miller to know if it was a pass or run play. It’s crazy to see how having the deck stacked against him destroyed Cam’s confidence at the worst possible moment
Oh this is pure comedy. It`s was so funny watching him throw a temper tantrum like a toddler in the end zone after getting harassed by Vonn Miller all game. 🤣Just pure good entertainment.
Von miller broke him
Von Miller cheated! He is a ROGUE!
He didn’t break nobody!
He got protected by the Refs! 😱
people like you are so weird
Man that Bronco defense was something else, the last time I had happiness as a fan
If you are getting tired of the video JUMP TO 11:20 - that's the part he was talking about at the beginning.
The whole point of the video is to build a story around that play.
You have no media literacy
Von Miller exposed Cam that day. Miller took away Cam's will to compete. Cam was a show till he got his bell rung. Then it was towel over the head and sulk. No decent leader quits like that in front of his team. That's Cam Newton.
The point 10:59
As a long-time suffering Saints fan, Newton posed a real and significant threat. He was a real physical force of nature, and if he had the maturity of Drew Brees or even Matt Ryan, he would have been unstoppable. I hated that he was in our division, because I secretly enjoyed watching him play and saw the enormous potential he had. He just needed the right coaching and mentorship. I will always feel that his time with the Panthers really stunted his growth and held him back.
Thanks for letting me relive the first night my wife ever saw me cry. It's tough being a fan of the Panthers.
I'm also a fan of the NY Jets, in case you don't think I like suffering.
What have the Panthers done without Cam? Matt Rhule kept sh*tting on him, & Tepper.
Aren’t the Panthers 2-15!
Is that Cam’s fault, too?? 😳
So glad I found my way back into the timeline where the Seahawks won that Superbowl against the Pats. Things got weird there for awhile.
Dude got so traumatized by this chicken farmer, he became a vegan