Belichick signed him from one point seven five million in twenty twenty.

You know, Belichick does not over pay players and certainly doesn't overpaid quarterbacks.

He won't do it.

That's just not gonna do it.

He paid one point seven five million for Cam last year.

Did he get up one point seven five million in value?

He got more than that.

Now.

Just remember this about Cam Newton last year.

He was coming off of a catastrophic injury and he had missed the season.

Okay, that alone, you'd expect diminished returns.

But that wasn't all.

He was going to a brand new team in a new system that had run the opposite.

We'll have the opposite kind of quarterback as Cam for twenty years, but that's not all.

Because of Covid.

There were lots of guys who opted out on the defense, and it was a team built around defense before the season even started.

But that's not all.

Their best defender.

Gilmore also got hurt during the season and missed some games.

But that's not all.

Cam Newton himself got covid, but that's not all.

He didn't just miss a game.

The team couldn't practice the facilities were shut down.

And remember, it's a new team.

New systems coming off catastrophic injury.

Hasn't played in a year, doesn't know his teammates and couldn't practice.

There was addition to that.

They can't even do walk throughs and stuff like that.

But that's not all.

Cam suffered from a Covid fog for several weeks after the game he missed against Kansas City.

But that's not all the Patriots offense was so bad at make.

Tom Brady looked ordinary before.

He just had an MVP caliber year when you count the playoff run.

But that's not all.

If anything, the offensive Weapons were even worse than when Brady was there.

And in spite of all that Cam Newton one nine one seven games and came to plays away from winning nine, he won.

Now listen to the teams they beat.

They beat Miami Week one.

They lost to Seattle by a single play, a goal line stand.

Bobby Wagner, a great player, made a great play and stop cam at the goal goal line against Seattle.

Week two.

They beat the Raiders week three.

Then Cam got covid.

They lost to Casey, then he was in that.

Then they had to bad losses.

Denver and San Francisco, where Cam looked terrible.

And at the time I speculated, Is he going through some kind of covid symptom thing like lingering symptoms?

And a couple of weeks after that can pointed to those games said, You know, basically, he had that covid Fog that you read about the following week there at Buffalo.

His cam is stripped in the red zone.

Or else maybe they win that Buffalo game like that's two plays against Seattle and Buffalo that could easily turn those losses in to win one.

Playing each wins one playing each game.

Then they beat the Jets and they beat the Ravens.

They lost on the road to Houston.

Then they beat Arizona and destroyed the Chargers before they had a bad run at the end of the season.

What I see from the Patriots last year is a seven and nineteen that given all the issues they were dealing with, that was a remarkable season for them.

And that's seven and nineteen were two plays away from being nine and seven.

That was for one point seven five million.

Belichick just gave Cam fourteen million.

I mean, it's like eight million in I think it was eight and guaranteed another six based on incentives.

But for one point seven five, he got that camp.

What do you think is expecting for for eight to fourteen?

If anything, he's going to get more value than that.

That's an interesting move by Belichick.

He thinks he can make the playoffs with Cam Newton, and I agree with him.

I think based on what we saw last year from Cam, I'm expecting a much better year.

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