No, Cam Newton didn’t get a fat contract from the New England Patriots. Two weeks into the season, however, it appears he got something even more valuable.
Validation. The opportunity to say, “I told you so,” too.
While the former MVP is reminding everyone what he’s capable of when he’s healthy and in a scheme that makes full use of his prodigious skills, there are several teams that have to be wondering exactly what they were thinking this off-season.
And if they’re not, they should be.
Teams like, say, the Chicago Bears, whose near-meltdown in the second half Sunday showed the oft-promised progress of Mitchell Trubisky is based more on hope than in reality.