Steve Grogan saw a little of himself when he flipped on the Patriots game Sunday.
The former New England quarterback, who was under center from 1975-90, remains the only quarterback in franchise history to rush for 300 yards in a season; he did it four times, including 539 yards in 1978. So he was interested to see how Cam Newton would do in his first game with the Patriots.
It wasn’t as if Grogan was unfamiliar with Newton’s work — after all, the former NFL MVP has put up impressive rushing numbers over the course of his career, topping 500 in a season on five separate occasions with the Panthers.