Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Cam Newton 'can rise above this amusement,' Carolina Panthers mentor says

Carolina quarterback Cam Newton won the NFL MVP Award last season, yet Panthers mentor Ron Rivera said the previous Auburn star is just "touching the most superficial layer of how great he can be."

In driving Carolina to the NFC title and to a spot in Super Bowl 50, Newton was an about consistent MVP decision in 2015, getting 48 of the 50 votes.

Amid the 2015 normal season, Newton delivered a greater number of touchdowns than any player in the NFL with 35 TD passes and 10 scoring keeps running as the Panthers posted a 15-1 record. Newton turned into the main player in NFL history with no less than 30 touchdown passes and eight TD keeps running in the same season.

In his fifth NFL season, Newton finished 296-of-496 goes for 3,837 yards and 35 touchdowns with 10 block attempts for a vocation high passing-productivity rating of 99.2. Newton likewise ran 132 times for 636 yards and 10 touchdowns. He turned into the principal player in NFL history with no less than 3,000 passes yards and 500 hurrying yards in five seasons.

Notwithstanding the MVP Award, Newton additionally won the NFL Offensive Player of the Year Award and earned All-Pro acknowledgment.

Showing up on "The Pulse with Bobby and Chris" on WZGV-AM 730 in Charlotte on Wednesday evening, Rivera said Newton's simply beginning.

"I believe he has a dreadful parcel of space to develop," Rivera said. "I believe he's truly only sort of touching the most superficial layer of how great he can be. He can truly rise above this diversion in a wide range of routes in light of the way the amusement is played today. The amusement is played at an up beat, it's played from a spread offense, it's played from the shotgun. The quarterback settles on a ton of choices now. The quarterback makes the chance to whether run, toss or pass. That is to say, he genuinely is a triple risk now.

"So I think the thing we see with him is pretty much as he keeps on learning and see increasingly about hostile and protective plays, his basic leadership will be far superior. Also, the length of he keeps on staying sound and continue showing signs of improvement physically and work on his base basics, I think the young fellow is going to improve. I truly do."

Newton had his best NFL season despite the fact that he lost his top focus from 2014. Wide collector Kelvin Benjamin endured a season-finishing harm in preparing camp against getting 73 goes for 1,008 yards and nine touchdowns in 2014.

Newton's enormous season without Benjamin both demonstrated his development and helped him develop, Rivera said.

Benjamin had 145 passes tossed his way in 2014. One and only other Carolina wide recipient was focused on more than 40 times that season. In 2015, four wide beneficiaries had no less than 54 focuses for the Panthers.

"Possibly it was one of those forward bungles where we lose Kelvin and, unexpectedly, our quarterback spreads the ball," Rivera said. "I can take a gander at the amusement sheets and see that he focused on nine, 10, 11 distinct players each diversion and six, seven, eight, nine distinctive folks got passes. That is the thing that you need to see. You need to see the ball spread. You need to have the capacity to assault from all the diverse positions that we lasted year. You need your quarterback to play the way he did by spreading the ball. I trust he can do that once more."