It is past a saying for a professional athlete to state winning a Super Bowl is more vital than a private honor, to the factor that any type of leading NFL quarterback asked will certainly nearly head out of his method to ignore the MVP honor.Josh Allen does it Lamar Jackson does it.
Cam Newton, nonetheless, does not.
The previous Carolina Panthers quarterback, now working as a professional opinion-haver on ESPN’s “First Take,” threw traditional knowledge Thursday when asked by Stephen A. Smith if he would certainly trade his MVP honor for a Super Bowl win.
Clearly anticipating Newton to like the Super Bowl he never ever won to the MVP, Smith was noticeably surprised when Newton reacted with a candid “no.”
Stephen A. Smith: “Cam, if you could give back that league MVP for a Super Bowl championship, would you do it?”
Cam Newton: “No” pic.twitter.com/b1wVO2i7Nh
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Skewering Smith’s inquiry as a “journalistic viewpoint,” Newton asked whether influence or champions are more vital prior to outlining his complete ideas, that included name-checking 3 non-elite quarterbacks that won a Super Bowl:
“Everybody’s not going to be Michael Jordan. Everybody’s not going to be Patrick Mahomes. Everybody’s not going to be these individuals who have the luxury of saying, ‘Hey, I not only dominated this sport, but I also have championships to back it.’
“Let me remind you, Brad Johnson won a Super Bowl. Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl. Respectfully, Nick Foles won a Super Bowl. So, yes, when you look at those guys and you say, ‘OK, what’s more important? Would you have preferred to win a Super Bowl?’ I think that’s the humble approach, but if we’re being honest, the impact of you holding yourself accountable to say everybody has a responsibility to do, and you can say as an MVP award winner or an All-American, you’ve held your end of the bargain down. That’s what it really comes down to for me.
“I know that’s not the popular pick, I’m not trying to be popularized! My take is, I’m taking individual success because I did my job. Football is not about one guy trying to do 11 jobs, it’s 11 guys doing one job.”
The exchange rose both by Newton’s substantial hat and the expression of his co-panelist, Jason McCourty, that won Super Bowl LIII with the New England Patriots.
Newton played 11 periods in the NFL and got to the Super Bowl when, which additionally occurred to be his MVP period. He led the 2015 Panthers to a 15-1 regular-season document and Super Bowl 50, which they shed 24-10 to Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos.
Outside of that period, Newton’s Panthers group was especially doing not have in the type of ability groups require to win theSuper Bowl Clearly, Newton really did not believe he became part of the trouble, though his decrease afterwards period, partly prompted by injuries, was visible.
