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Cam Newton re-signs with New England Patriots on one-year deal

Cam Newton will return to New England for the 2021 NFL season.

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The Cam Newton experiment in New England is not over.

On Friday, it was announced that the quarterback and the Patriots have agreed to a one-year deal to keep the former NFL MVP in Foxborough.

Per ESPN:

The contract is worth up to close to $14 million, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. About $6 million of the deal is tied to incentives, a source told ESPN’s Mike Reiss.

Newton, who will turn 32 in May, hoped to return to New England after signing a modest one-year deal with the team in 2020. On the “I Am Athlete” podcast in late February, he said he would be open to another one-year deal in New England.

“I’m getting tired of changing [teams],” the quarterback said. “I am at a point in my career where I know way more than I did last year. Yes, I would go back.”

Cam Newton: ‘Bill Belichick is the most misunderstood person in all of sports’

Cam Newton says his former coach Bill Belichick is the most misunderstood person in all of sports and is a cool dude.

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While the Cam Newton experiment in New England didn’t work out as well as the former Auburn quarterback and Patriots hoped, the former NFL MVP did get a close look at the bright mind of Bill Belichick.

Newton also was honest with himself and how he played.

“There were times last year, I knew I was about to get pulled,” Newton said. “I’m a realist.”

During the interview on I Am Athletes, the 2010 Heisman Trophy winner went on to compliment the six-time Super Bowl winner, stating that people don’t know the real Belichick.

“I think Bill Belichick is the most misunderstood person in all of sports,” Newton said. “He’s dope as ****. Like, he is a cool dude. He understands the game. He’s like a historian of the game and for you to just sit down and chat with him … he’s teaching the game.”

It’s interesting to see the respect that Newton, who had his worst season in the NFL in 2020, has for his former coach.

Cam Newton has harsh self-evaluation ahead of Week 7

The New England Patriots quarterback isn’t shy about saying he’s been playing bad.

(This post was originally published at Patriots Wire.)

New England Patriots quarterback Cam Newton is clearly displeased with the way his season has started. It may have started “therapeutic.” But it has gotten a little more complicated and troubling in recent weeks.

The Patriots at 2-3, their worst record through five games since 2002. And New England is on a two-game losing streak, which was interrupted by a bye, a product of a COVID-19 outbreak among players. Newton was among the Patriots who contracted the novel coronavirus.

Newton was asked what he’s taken from his performances to this point.

“I just haven’t been good,” Newton told reporters on Thursday. “I haven’t matched enough good plays together for my liking. That’s what it comes down to. When I mean ‘good plays,’ I mean right reads, I mean ball positioning, I mean making guys miss. The whole gamut of how I play. I know what I’m capable of. My standard is extremely high and I haven’t been meeting it. My personal standard. That’s how I feel.”

The Patriots should have had a full week of practice, with their final session coming on Friday. That wasn’t true of the last two weeks, when they managed just one practice per week due to their facility shutdown amid their COVID-19 outbreak. It was clear New England needed that practice in Week 6, and the players and coaches have emphasized how happy they are to get back to work on the field (and off Zoom). It helps, too, that three players returned from injured reserve, including starting center David Andrews, and three more players returned from the reserve/COVID-19 list, including guard Shaq Mason. The adverse situations are beginning to resolve themselves.

“Our excuse basket is running real low,” Newton said Thursday afternoon. “We’re getting guys back we missed for weeks, and even though we’re missing a couple other guys, we’ve got enough to compete with anybody — and I mean anybody.”

They’ll get the chance to prove they can beat the San Francisco 49ers, a team that made the Super Bowl last year, in Week 7.

Report: Cam Newton tests positive for COVID-19, to miss Sunday’s game

The former Auburn star will miss Sunday’s showdown with the Kansas City Chiefs.

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The New England Patriots will have to play the best team in the NFL, the Kansas City Chiefs, without their starting quarterback Cam Newton on Sunday.

The former Auburn star has tested positive for COVID-19.

“Late last night, we received notice that a Patriots players tested positive for COVID-19. The player immediately entered self-quarantine,” the Patriots said in a statement Saturday. “Several additional players, coaches and staff who have been in close contact with the player received point of care tests this morning and all were negative for COVID-19.”

Cam Newton hasn’t moved family to Boston during this ‘business trip’ with Patriots

Cam Newton is completely focused on winning big with the New England Patriots this season.

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(This post was originally published on Patriots Wire.)

Cam Newton signed a one-year deal with the New England Patriots, making his time with the team temporary.

Unless he signs an extension to stay longer in New England, there’s no need to move his family and uproot their life. This is a logical scenario and Newton said that he’s currently on a ‘business trip’ with the Patriots while joining WEEI’s ‘The Greg Hill Show.’

“I am a person who takes everything to heart, I mean anything,” Newton said. “The whole decision, and not to keep beating a dead horse, this is a business trip for me. The fact that I don’t have none of my children here in Boston with me and the fact that I haven’t been able to see them on a regularity, that’s angry in itself for me. I wake up every morning missing the hell out of my children, and knowing that if I don’t do what I am supposed to do, then this could be good riddance for me. That is as serious as I am making it and that’s as serious it is.

“Not to mention, I have so much to prove. I could care less about other critics, but more or less I have so much to prove to myself. I have seen a lot of great football being played. I have seen a lot of great football being played over the time I was injured and whatnot. You have to question yourself and question the man that you are and say, ‘Can you still play at a high level?’ There’s an expectation that I have for myself and I am just trying to meet it every single day of my life.”

Newton didn’t dive into the circumstances necessary to keep him in Foxborough.

“It’s always about taking care of business,” he said. “My focus is so near-sighted that I am trying to make things work, and if I am looking for long-term results with not too many things to have leverage on, then that’s not good. For me, I just look at the opportunity that I have been given, and it is a great opportunity, I’ll tell you that, and I think people already know that. It’s up to me about how I finish what I started. It’s not necessarily about the things that people want to make it about, it’s about going out and and every week and first off winning, and then everything else falls in place.”

Although many people would like to see Newton with a long-term deal, he should be appreciated for the excitement he’s providing this season.