Cam Newton admitted that he has a “do-on’t” relationship (he does and he doesn’t) with Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper. But that didn’t stop him from predicting his former boss’ next move.
The franchise legend spoke a bit about Carolina’s current direction (or lack thereof) on Wednesday’s episode of his podcast 4th & 1. After picking the Panthers and the spread for their Week 13 matchup against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Newton revealed what he thinks is next for Tepper after this week’s firing of head coach Frank Reich.
“I think . . . Tepper is really, knowing what I do know, he’s hoping that he can land Bill Belichick,” he said. “That, that right there would be a win-win-win-win-win for David Tepper.”
Newton, albeit on some short tenures, has worked with both men. He quarterbacked Tepper’s Panthers in 2018 and 2021, a pair of seasons that sandwiched a pitstop for Belichick’s Patriots in 2020.
So he knows, from both ends, what a potential hiring would mean. Newton added:
“The thing that I know would be the enticing lure to it, is because Tepper will give him everything that he would need, and also that would allow Belichick to say, ‘You know what? Things didn’t work out here, now I can show you I can do it somewhere else.'”
With Belichick likely on the way out after after a storied 24-year run in New England, will the six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach want to plant some new seeds of success in Charlotte? According to Cam, do-on’t count it out.
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