Cam Newton Responds To People Criticizing His ‘Game Managers’ Take

Former NFL quarterback Cam Newton caught a lot of heat this week for calling current quarterbacks Brock Purdy and Dak Prescott “game managers.”

“Brock, they’re not winning because of him,” Newton said on his podcast. “He’s not turning the ball over. He’s managing the game. And if we were to put that in its own right, as game managers, Brock Purdy, Tua Tagovailoa, and Jared Goff, and really, Dak Prescott…these are game managers. They’re not difference makers.”

Newton was accused of throwing out that hot take in an attempt to get clicks for his podcast by Domonique Foxworth on ESPN.

Jason McIntyre of Fox Sports took the criticism of Cam Newton even further (and immediately got roasted by many NFL fans for going a wee bit too far).

So, late Thursday night, Cam Newton was back on the internet with another message.

“Over the last 24 hours, there has been a lot of people who have had a lot to say about the comments I made on my sports show,” Newton said.

“Some are true. Some are not so true. Some of it is objective. All of it is still opinionated at the end of the day. The thing that I have a problem with is address the point I made, not me.”

He then showed some clips of sports media talking heads doing just that.

“Game manager is not a negative connotation,” Newton continued.

“‘Cam, what do you mean by game manager?’ My definition of that managing player is a player who has the ability to make the right play at the right time, protecting the football at all costs.”

Newton then gave some examples of who he thinks of as great game managers.

“When I think about ultimate, elite game managers, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Tom Brady. Game changer and game manager is not something where I’m saying this person is not physically capable of making some great plays. I’m not saying that or I am not saying that they’re not good players.

“There’s really only three to potentially five game changers in the NFL right now. Aaron Rodgers, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes.”

Does that make more sense?

Some people think it does…