FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The first thing I noticed about Cam Newton as a Patriot was pretty straightforward: Being a Patriot hasn’t changed him.
The football field has always been where the 31-year-old is most in his element, and as he boisterously skipped on to the practice fields just south of Gillette Stadium, at 9:53 a.m. ET on Tuesday, his energy announced to everyone that the ex-MVP was clocking in for work. Less than a minute later, Newton playfully yelled—loudly—to a camera crew in the stands. Three minutes after that, he was taking snaps with the other quarterbacks.