From inter-squad fights during practice to the annual summertime rivalry between their families — all of it oozing with trash talk, of course — the ongoing saga between Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton and Washington cornerback Josh Norman has been well-documented.
Well, now it’s time to write the next chapter.
Newton and the Panthers travel this week to Washington, where Norman and teammates will try to wash the bad taste out of their mouths after a recent Monday night beat-down. And though Carolina’s divisional rivals in New Orleans hung 43 points on Washington this week, there are plenty of defensive statistics (more on them later) to prove that performance was more anomaly than exception.