FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – It looked like the same old Cam Newton who struggled in the first three games when the Carolina Panthers quarterback threw deep to Damiere Byrd in the first quarter of Sunday’s 33-30 victory over New England.
It was a bad decision: Byrd was double covered.
It was a bad pass: a floater.
It was intercepted.
And it came after the Panthers, who had only one touchdown in their last nine quarters coming into the game, settled for yet another field goal on their first series.
But then, in part because the New England defense was as a bad as advertised, Newton started to show the form he had during his 2015 NFL MVP season.