I’ve never made it a secret that I don’t think Cam Newton is as good of a quarterback as most others do. This is not to say that Newton wasn’t a valuable weapon for the Carolina Panthers, or that he wasn’t often the best offensive player on that team (saving some respect for Luke Kuechly), but as a quarterback I believe that you have to be able to throw the ball exceptionally well and incredibly accurately.
That is not a skill that Newton regularly put on display at Florida, Auburn, or Carolina, and so even when he won the MVP award in 2015, I did not buy that he was going to have a long and successful career following the Panthers loss in the Super Bowl that year.