New England Patriots
“I am your protect, your helmet, and it ain’t received no marks in it.”
Cam Newton isn’t backing down from his “fool’s gold” comments concerning the Patriots. Removed from it. He’s tripling down.
Whereas sporting a Seattle Seahawks jersey throughout a current look on his 4th-and-1 podcast, Newton mentioned the Patriots’ path via these playoffs hasn’t been very difficult.
“The New England Patriots have had the simplest highway to the Tremendous Bowl in NFL historical past. Go argue together with your mama,” mentioned Newton.
The No. 2-seeded Patriots are one win away from showing in Tremendous Bowl LX after a pair of victories at Gillette Stadium over the previous two weeks. They dismissed the Texans and Chargers, each of whom had top-5 defenses by way of whole yards allowed through the regular-season.
Newton, a former Patriots quarterback, mentioned the home-field benefit together with going towards wounded offenses have made the Patriots’ path simple. The Chargers misplaced each beginning tackles, Joe Alt and Rashawn Slater to season ending harm. Houston’s prime receiver, Nico Collins, missed the divisional-round recreation with a concussion.
On Sunday, the Patriots will face the top-seeded Denver Broncos with out beginning quarterback Bo Nix who broke a bone in his ankle final Saturday. All of that is on prime of New England having one of many weakest regular-season schedules within the league.
“Going into Foxborough alone, that’s an edge,” Newton mentioned. “Of the groups that have been within the playoffs, the Chargers weren’t a staff to be anticipated to have a deep playoff push. That’s details. Additionally details is that they performed one other staff that got here into Foxborough that was poor skillfully within the Houston Texans.”
“Nico Collins out. That wasn’t one of the best model of that staff. After which, to not add, they’re not going to see one of the best staff that’s the No. 1 seed, being that its the Denver Broncos. You’re going up towards the second-string quarterback in Jarrett Stidham. So, after I say that the Patriots have had the simplest highway to the Tremendous Bowl in league historical past, that’s my argument.”
The Patriots received every of their playoff matchups by no less than 12 factors. They haven’t confronted a very formidable check but, Newton mentioned.
“I’m your protect, your helmet, and it ain’t received no marks in it,” Newton mentioned. “Your sword don’t received no blood on it, actually. I’m trying on the Rams’ sword, I’m trying on the Seattle Seahawks, they’ve received some actual character constructing video games happening the highway and figuring it out.”
The Patriots are permitting 9.5 factors per recreation this postseason, second to solely the Seahawks. They’re additionally second in yards allowed at 224 per recreation.
They held the Justin Herbert-led Chargers offense to a few factors.
“Justin Herbert isn’t who we thought Justin Herbert was, and it makes it even worse… he don’t received no one defending him. I imply, can I get a witness? I used to be praying for him. I used to be like ‘ooh Jesus’, ‘ooh man don’t damage him’.”
They compelled Houston’s CJ Stroud to throw 4 interceptions within the first half final week.
However, the accidents made it onerous to guage Stroud’s efficiency, Newton mentioned.
“It’s onerous to guage a participant whenever you’re lacking your left deal with, whenever you’re lacking your left deal with, whenever you’re lacking your beginning receiver. Going into that recreation, he knew that there was going to be loads on him to do … on a type of interceptions the man who was supposed to dam the top nearly seemed like he received sniped and fell down so now he’s sizzling when he’s not imagined to have strain and he’s throwing the ball up for grabs. He made a nasty state of affairs worse.”
The Patriots’ protection has carried out effectively, Newton mentioned, however the accidents on the opposite facet might have helped that.
“You’ve performed a depleted Chargers staff, a depleted Texans staff,” Newton mentioned. “You’re about to play a depleted offensively although the quarterback place Denver Broncos staff.”
“It’s like, yo, any person has to say it. I’m not the dude that’s going to be like ‘oh, bro, yeah man, they appear good.’” he added. “Defensively, they appear nice, however via all three phases of soccer, I wish to see nice video games and we haven’t seen nice video games come out of New England.”
Newton’s co-host requested him if he stood behind the idiot’s gold feedback.
“Sure, as a result of they haven’t performed everyone’s finest,” Newton mentioned.
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