*Poor Cam Newton.
It was a really, really long night for him.
As we said in a separate report, the Carolina Panthers 26-year-old quarterback basically got his ass handed to him on Sunday evening by the Denver Broncos who won Super Bowl 50 by the score of 24-10.
The NFL’s 2015 MVP was sacked six times, turned the ball over three times and was under pressure from Von Miller and DeMarcus Ware all night on Sunday.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, he had to talk to media afterwards and quite frankly it wasn’t a good look. Not that his haters need any ammunition to use against him, but unfortunately for him, he gave them just what they wanted.
Newton basically became Marshawn Lynch, answering questions with mostly one word responses along with pitiful looks and then finally walking off after a question he didn’t like.
Check out video of that moment below:
Panthers Cam Newton barely answered questions and here he exits pic.twitter.com/eNMDpv2sQH
— Cam Inman (@CamInman) February 8, 2016
Here’s an extended look at the press conference:

As we alluded to up top, he drew plenty of criticism:
Deion Sanders on @nflnetwork getting after Cam Newton for his post-game presser walk-off
— Kevin Patra (@kpatra) February 8, 2016
Newton, one of the more polarizing QBs in the league, has been criticized for immaturity in the past, and this certainly isn’t going to help that image.
It's sad to say but Cam kind of brought that guy everyone loved to hate back this week in his pressers and & post game interview.
— Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) February 8, 2016
There aren’t a lot of situations that are worse for players who have to talk to media directly after losing the biggest game of their life, but it’s clear he could have handled himself better. The Charlotte Observer‘s Joe Person summed it up well:
Someone said this about Cam recently: He is the world's best winner and the world's worst loser. Tonight showed that again.
— Joe Person (@josephperson) February 8, 2016
The bottom line is that this is going to be a long, long offseason for Newton. We’d advise him to stay away from social media and sports-talk radio for a while, too ’cause his name is going to come up over and over and it won’t be pretty.
h/t: heavy.com