"Even though I was starting, that doesn't necessarily mean nothing. And that's why it was starting to make sense," Newton said. "That time with me finding out and kind of seeing things different, when I look back at it, I was probably getting two reps to his 10 reps. Newton, 32, who said he isn't retiring, detailed his viewpoint of how things shifted at practice. If they would have gave him the starting role, they knew the perception that it would have had if the success didn't come." Newton said he enjoyed working with Jones while adding, "Mac Jones didn't beat me out. "But listen, the truth of the matter is this: He would have been uncomfortable." If they would have asked me, 'Cam, we're going to give the team to Mac, you're going to be second string we expect you to be everything and some to guide him throughout this tenure,' I would have said, 'Absolutely,'" Newton said.
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Newton said he "absolutely" would have been willing to serve as a backup to rookie Mac Jones but that he believes Jones would not have been comfortable with that arrangement. Do I think this would have happened without me being away from the team for five days? Honestly, yes. Newton told his father he didn't believe his five-day absence from the Patriots due to a COVID-19 protocol "misunderstanding" in August was the primary reason for his release but added: "During that time, I started seeing signs of change.
Newton's remarks came in a YouTube Live video in which he sat down with his father, Cecil, on the football field at Newton's high school alma mater in Atlanta. "Did it catch me by surprise being released? Absolutely," Newton said in a video released Friday morning.
Free-agent quarterback Cam Newton said he didn't see his release from the New England Patriots coming in his first remarks since the team cut him 10 days ago.
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