After throwing three picks in 15 passes, Cam Newton wasn’t surprised when Bill Belichick benched him for Jarrett Stidham early in the fourth quarter of a 33-6 game.
“No. I’m a realist, but yet through it all I am coachable,” Newton said on WEEI’s Greg Hill Show Monday. "I didn’t want to put up a [stink]. How bad would that have been? ‘I’m not coming out.’ That would have been embarrassing. [Belichick] came and said, ‘ Stidham is finishing’ and I agreed. That’s what it was.
“For any type of competitor, do you feel embarrassed?