Cam Newton voices displeasure over Patriots tenure with NSFW remarks

New England Patriots fans weren’t exactly mortified when the Cam Newton era ended last August.

While the former MVP handled himself with class in Foxborough, his on-field performance left a lot to be desired and he didn’t do himself any favors by traveling to a team-approved medical appointment during training camp, which led to a misunderstanding about tests being conducted away from team facilities.

As a result, Newton missed crucial practice time amid his quarterback battle with then-rookie Mac Jones. Shortly thereafter, Newton got released and Jones led to the Patriots to the playoffs with a 10-7 record while finishing second in Offensive Rookie of the Year voting.

After finishing 2021 with the Panthers, Newton remains an unrestricted free agent and his NFL future is uncertain. The 33-year-old seemingly hasn’t given any thought to retirement, but his latest comments likely didn’t do him any favors in terms of generating interest.

During a Tuesday appearance on “The Pivot Podcast,” Newton reflected on his 2020 season with the Patriots and his partial 2021 campaign in Carolina and referred to both as messed up situations.

That’s the clean version of Cam’s quote, anyway.

Does Cam Newton regret signing with the Patriots in 2020?

Here’s what Newton said of his time in New England.

"The New England experience was a (expletive) up situation. I was still learning the offense 7-8 weeks into the season. There were times I was going to the line and I was still thinking. I’m thinking about the enunciation of the play, I’m thinking about forgetting my emotions, I’m thinking about my sight adjust."

Newton made note of numerous meetings with the coaching staff, whose efforts to teach him the playbook gave him “brain overload.”

"So there was countless hours with Jedd Fisch. There was was countless hours with Josh McDaniels. There was countless hours with so many different people trying to teach me certain things, and it was just brain overload. So there was times I was going to the line and I’m still thinking. I’m thinking about the annunciation of the play. I’m thinking about forgetting my motions. I’m thinking about my sight adjust. I’m thinking about certain things. So that’s the [expletive] up situation."

Newton made sure to explain he knew things would be difficult considering he signed so late in the offseason, but it wasn’t “to the degree I needed to know it in order to show the world that I’m still Cam Newton.”

It’s difficult not to have sympathy for Newton, who battled COVID in 2020 on top of having to learn the playbook in a little over a month. While he’s at fault for putting himself in the messed up situation with the Patriots, was he really in a position to decline their offer? Would anyone else have offered him a job?

It just sounds like Newton is trying to blame the Patriots and Panthers for why he remains unsigned in early June when his wonky accuracy and inability to push the ball downfield are the main reasons teams are staying away.

If the former No. 1 overall pick does, in fact, want to continue playing, he didn’t help his case by putting his former teams on blast. Luckily for Patriots fans, they can read this while sipping their tea knowing Jones is locked in as the team’s QB for the foreseeable future.

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