Cam Newton Gets Hammered Multiple Times in Super Bowl Rematch

Opening day for the NFL took place on September 8th with a super bowl rematch between the defending champions the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers. Through a hard fought battle, the Broncos won 21-20 when Graham Gano missed a 50 yard field goal for the Panthers. Even though the game was filled with exciting plays and touchdowns, they were not the paramount of attention for this game. The physical play of the Denver Broncos lead to multiple hard collisions to the quarterback for the Panthers, Cam Newton.

Newton was subject to multiple hits to the head and aggressive tackles that looked to do more than just stop the play. With this physical play, none of them resulted in yardage for the Panthers offense. In other words, the Broncos defense were hitting Newton and were not subject to penalization. Greg Olsen stated in the post game interview, “Treat him like a quarterback. I know he is the biggest guy on the the field, but he is still a QB.” He is calling out the officials stating that they have done Cam Newton injustice by not calling these hits. The officials were not treating him like the ordinary quarterback and did not protect him with flags and whistles.

Even though the hard tackles were occurring constantly in the game, the team did not blame their lost on the physical play. Cam Newton stated: “We didn’t lose the game of that (hard tackles). I know that for a fact.” However, he also knows that the officials should be calling these fouls. He also stated, “I really like the officiating crew. It wasn’t something I know they did intentionally, but it’s not fun getting hit in the head.” Cam Newton has every right to be upset. The officials are suppose to protect the quarterback to a certain degree and failed to do so. Because of this, the Panthers could have possibly lost their star due to an injury.

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