 today's Cam Newton. So he was released by the Panthers. Now according to Adam Schefter Cam Newton passed a physical coordinated by the Panthers and his agents yesterday. So if this guy is healthy how is some team not jumping all over him this guy was not well not that long ago that he was an MVP. You tell me he's not better than than Jared Stidman. Stidham. Are you serious. I don't know how people are jumping all over Cam Newton. I know. You're going to get them on the cheap. But I think the New England situation is a little different because they we don't know what Stidham is. The only person that knows is Bill. And since everybody trusts Bill then I guess you got to let it play itself out here because we haven't really seen him play to know whether he's got it or not. But for him to I'm sure he's going to find some sort of a landing spot who needs a quarterback now. If New England's off the table because they love Stidham so much who needs a quarterback. I just can't believe. Well let me ask you this. If you were the Colts you'd rather have up rivers than Cam Newton a healthy Cam Newton. I mean we know he's healthy. That's what they just said which makes his release all the more curious. So they gave him a they gave him a physical yesterday. He passed it and then they released them. Doesn't that send up a red flag that the team that won with him didn't want to bring him back. It's a it's a new coach who wants his own his own team. So he wants to rid himself of the path. If you if you're the Giants any team let's say the guy really wants a job. How about that. How about him for a backup quarterback. You can't have him as a bad idea. But you can't have him as a backup. It becomes like the Kaepernick situation. He's he's too if you if you have if you bring him into New York to either team in New York but either Jets or Giants where you have an established kid as your starter and something happens to that kid particularly Sam right with what we've seen from Sam over the last couple years. Sam gets hurt. He misses four games during that four games. Cam Newton goes for no and looks like the old Cam Newton. That becomes very tough to go back to Sam. It does. He hasn't. He has not established himself enough to know that you would go back to him over all of a sudden a Cam Newton playing like his best self. Don you disagree. No I completely agree. Now that would that would be very difficult when you have a young up and coming quarterback and having a veteran that the fans are going to salivate over the second Jones or or or Darn will make a mistake or have a bad couple of games. Where's Cam. Cam was going to be over that shoulder wouldn't if you're the heirs wouldn't you rather Cam Newton and Nick falls. Yes that one I don't even remotely get if you're telling me that he's healthy. Now there's a there's difference in healthy like he may have been cleared he can play but is there a feeling around the NFL that what you saw his MVP year that ship sailed now that because of the wear and tear his age he's never going to get back to that again. He's healthy enough to play but not at the level that we think of a Cam Newton. That's probably the answer. We're judging Cam Newton based on the best Cam Newton people that have to make decisions are not judging it on that they're judging it on what is he right now. And if he's a shell of himself Michael then maybe falls is a better option. Maybe Rivers is a better option. To me it's just like I don't know. How can anyone be sure that that version of Cam is gone. How can they be sure especially if we don't have a doctor's report that tells us that. How do you know that you that Cam is gone. He was too good. Well so what was so what's being suggested. We knew what was suggested with Kaepernick right. There was an ulterior motive to not signing him. All right Cam can be a bit much but there doesn't seem to be anything on his resume that says he'd be a bad teammate and that he'd be a cancer to your room. So if people aren't jumping all over him these general managers talk they know the information. Maybe they scout him and say that this is not the guy that can make the throws he did before. He's serviceable but he's not what he was. And they obviously have that information. Orlowski will be really good on this. He judges quarterbacks. The last time he saw Cam healthy is that the same quarterback that went to a Super Bowl that won an MVP. If the answer is no then then then that's the reason because there wouldn't be any other reason Peter right. There's I don't think he's he's corrupted his character to the point where nobody's going to want him on their team. No definitely not. No. So with the Kaepernick stuff there we knew there was something else going on. But with this it's just strictly can he still play. And the and the prevailing thought is is that he can't play at that level anymore. So I have a question. Did he end up having surgery last year. Was there ever surgery. Like remember there was a lot of concern about what was going on with him. Was there a serious injury that hadn't been addressed. Did we ever get to the bottom of that or is part of what's scary here shoulder surgery. He did have shoulder surgery. So I believe so. So are we not going to be led to believe that he has a chance to bounce back. I just don't see why the level that he played at for like three seasons. This is not a guy who had a fluke kind of game. All right. Let's not rewrite history and say that Cam Newton was only a guy who could scramble Cam. When Cam was at his best every part of his game was working. He was he was scary good from the pocket could run was accurate through the deep ball at his best. The biggest question mark you ever had about him was heart was like the moment the Super Bowl right in dive on the fumble. That was sort of the biggest question mark that ever existed around camp. Well he in December he had foot surgery to repair a Liz Frank injury. So is he been cleared from that. And or is there a fear. He's cleared. He can play. But we believe that that foot injury is going to massively slow him down compared to what he had done before. And as much as I respect his game guys if he can't be mobile that definitely changes what Cam Newton is as a quarterback. But I don't think it changes him the way it does. Quarterbacks who we really think of for running first. Like Cam as a pocket quarterback only to me is a quarterback that could be very effective and certainly better than some of the options that teams have been you know a 2020 Philip Rivers or Jared Stidham. I mean maybe he's going to be great and we'll all be fools. But I think even minus the running Cam still in the conversation of someone you'd be very interested in getting a look at.