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Jason Smith: “We have seen the last of Cam Newton as a starting quarterback. He showed that he’s not a starting quarterback anymore. Running the football he still did well, but throwing the football he struggled and he wasn’t the same guy. You can say that he had been away, and he finally stayed healthy for a whole season, but no one is going to go into next season saying ‘Cam is our guy.’ He didn’t show enough to be someone’s starting quarterback next season. Cam has been a guy who has made a lot of money, and who is a big star who is not going to sit around and hang out as a backup. When starting quarterbacks have great careers and they’re done, they’re not backups anymore. Can I see Cam doing one year as a backup somewhere hoping he can get another chance to start? Yeah, but I don’t see Cam’s NFL career going more than one year. If he sits on a bench next year, he’s going to say ‘I’m DONE, I made my money, I’m ready for what next.’ Starting quarterbacks play until they can’t do it, and then they retire. They don’t become backups... The end is near for Cam whether it’s one year as a backup, or he hang sit up after this year if he doesn’t like what’s out there for him.” (Full Audio Above)
Listen to Jason Smith explain why he not only thinks Cam Newton’s career as a starting quarterback is over, but why he thinks Newton could retire from the league as soon as this upcoming offseason if Newton doesn’t like the available options in a free agency period that was already bleak last year.
Newton finished 2020 with the 30th ranked QBR, dead last in passing yards per game, and an unsightly 8/10 touchdown-to-interception ratio, which included 3 TD's in his Week 17 victory over the Jets. In 9 of Newton’s 15 starts he failed to even throw one touchdown.
Check out the audio above as Smith details why we’ve seen the last of Cam in the NFL, and why he believes Newton would have zero interest in becoming a perennial backup either.
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