The reason why they released me is because, indirectly, I was going to be a distraction, without being a starter. I was like, 'Cool.' It didn't dawn on me, 'Y'all releasing me?' I was confused. "At that time they told me they were going to give the reins to Mac. " Matt Patricia was there, Bill was there, and we greeted each other and just started talking," Newton said. He said he was told Bill Belichick wanted to see him, but the coach was in a different office than he usually would be. 31 and had to call his driver back about eight minutes later. In sharing how stunned he was to hear of his release, Newton said he arrived at Gillette Stadium around 8 a.m. "I crossed all the lines, I checked all the boxes, I dotted all my 'I's,' and then to find out that I had to sit out, that's when I kind of felt like bamboozled because 'Y'all told me to go.' It wasn't like, 'Cam, you know if you go, you're taking it on your risk.'"Īsked if he would have done so knowing the situation, Newton said, "Absolutely not." I felt obligated to kind of check back in with a six-month review. I just wanted to do a checkup with the person who, in essence, diagnosed me with the Lisfranc. It wasn't that I was having any issues or pain. "Not to say the personnel with the Patriots wasn't coherent to telling me everything I needed to know, but having four eyes on it is better than having two eyes on it, in my opinion. This was the last time I felt that I was going to have an opportunity to get a second opinion," Newton said. "This had nothing to do with no vaccination. Newton also expanded on what happened with him and the COVID-19 protocols, saying he was traveling for a second opinion on his foot, which he underwent surgery on for a Lisfranc injury in 2019. And that's when was getting his first-team reps." The first-team goes down, the second team goes back, and then the first team comes back, too. "I think that's where they did a good job with kind of disguising it: 'Cam took first-team reps today.' But didn't know the practice structure. "Even though I was starting, that doesn't necessarily mean nothing. And that's why it was starting to make sense," Newton said. "That time with me finding out and kind of seeing things different, when I look back at it, I was probably getting two reps to his 10 reps. Newton, 32, who said he isn't retiring, detailed his viewpoint of how things shifted at practice. If they would have gave him the starting role, they knew the perception that it would have had if the success didn't come." "If they would have asked me, 'Cam, we're going to give the team to Mac, you're going to be second-string we expect you to be everything and some to guide him throughout this tenure,' I would have said, 'Absolutely.' But listen, the truth of the matter is this: He would have been uncomfortable." Newton said he enjoyed working with Jones while adding, "Mac Jones didn't beat me out. "But listen, the truth of the matter is this: He would have been uncomfortable." If they would have asked me, 'Cam, we're going to give the team to Mac, you're going to be second string we expect you to be everything and some to guide him throughout this tenure,' I would have said, 'Absolutely,'" Newton said. Newton said he "absolutely" would have been willing to serve as a backup to rookie Mac Jones but that he believes Jones would not have been comfortable with that arrangement.
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