Cam Newton didn’t just save the New England Patriots’ season Monday night against the New York Jets.
He might’ve saved his career.
Newton led New England to a 30-27 win over New York at MetLife Stadium, improving the Patriots’ record to 3-5 and perhaps keeping their playoff hopes alive.
The last-second, comeback victory snapped a four-game losing streak for the Pats, during which Newton committed several costly miscues, and it’s fair to wonder whether Bill Belichick would have made a quarterback change had New England once again come up short.
“I think it was career-saving,” Nick Wright argued on Tuesday’s episode of “First Things First” on FS1.