Cam Newton apologizes for youth football brawl; Jason Whitlock has some advice



Famous quarterbacks like Cam Newton are apparently not immune from brawling at youth football tournaments.

The Carolina Panthers star was involved in such a brawl in Atlanta that a now-viral video shows Newton being shoved by three people near the top of a set of stairs.

While it appears that Newton was simply fending off the other men, he’s still taken it upon himself to apologize on his “4th and 1” podcast.

“I just let that situation escalate,” Newton said apologetically. “I scrambled, and I should have just stayed in the pocket, bro.”

“To every single high school player, to every single person of influence, to every single athlete — use my situation as a way to understand that in one moment, and one decision, your life can change just like that. And I let my emotions get the best of me,” Newton continued.

“We got to be better, and it starts with me,” he added.

Jason Whitlock is impressed.

“I have to applaud him. He took a lot of responsibility and said a lot of things that I really agreed with,” Whitlock says.

“He grew up in the church. He understands he has a responsibility to give back to serve young people, but he’s got eight kids,” Whitlock continues, noting that he’s still clearly trying to figure things out.

Whitlock has some advice for Newton, particularly on the way he dresses — which is quite flamboyant.

“There’s a level of sacrifice that’s required for leadership, and you want to be a leader,” he explains.

“Leadership is very humble, service is very humble. And so the person that comes in with the loudest suit and loudest style of dress and the loudest appearance, there’s no humility in that,” Whitlock says.


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Former NFL QB Cam Newton — who stands 6'5" — easily handles thugs who attack him at football camp; NFL icons blast assailants



In 2015, ESPN ran a story on then-Carolina Panthers signal-caller Cam Newton, noting that he's bigger than most defenders trying to sack or tackle him.

"Standing 6-foot-5 and weighing 245 pounds, there aren’t many quarterbacks who are as physically imposing as Cam Newton," the piece began, adding that he's actually taller than 90% of the defenders in the league and outweighs just over half of them.

Fast forward to this weekend when multiple males actually jumped Newton at a football camp in Atlanta.

It isn't clear what strategy these fellas devised, if any. Given Newton is only 34 years old and last competed against NFL players only a few seasons ago, one can safely assume the sane among us wouldn't mess with someone of his still-sturdy stature.

But mess with Newton they did — at least they tried. Yup, the former number-one draft pick and All-Pro handled his attackers with ease, fending off their swatting, swarming, and shoving.

Here's a clip of the action. Newton's the noticeably taller dude wearing the fancy hat — which never came off despite the whirlwind of activity the shorties around him doled out.

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What are the details?

According to the Athletic, the Sunday scuffle occurred during a 7-on-7 football event for under-15 and under-18 players, and Newton is the founder of C1N, a program that participated in the event.

The outlet said individuals involved with TopShelf Performance — a wide receiver training facility in Atlanta that also had youth teams at the event — approached Newton at the top of a set of steps. The Athletic said Newton was grabbed, and the fight was on.

A source with knowledge of elite 7-on-7 football told the outlet two men seen fighting with Newton were both coaches for TopShelf Performance and formerly coached with Newton. The clip shows the pair converging on him — after which, Newton quickly gains control and manhandles one of them across a grassy area. Police and security guards broke up the fight, the Athletic said.

A co-founder of the group that sponsored the event told the outlet that all those involved in the fight — even Newton — were kicked out, and that TopShelf beat C1N in a “heated game” Saturday with a lot of trash talk between the under-18 teams and tensions boiled over Sunday.

The Athletic added that Newton’s representatives didn't immediately respond to messages Sunday evening, and the Atlanta Police Department declined to provide information.

Former NFL stars speak out

A number of former NFL players weren't short on words about the altercation, and they appeared to defend Newton while blasting his attackers.

Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe and All-Pro receiver Chad Johnson sounded off during their “Nightcap” podcast, the New York Post said.

“Y’all think that’s cute [to tell Newton he’s trash]. It’s not,” Sharpe according to the Post. “It’s really embarrassing that somebody takes time out of their day… and try to give back and you’re disrespectful, ungrateful. Cam is way better than me because I don’t have patience for my own kids disrespecting me. I’ll be damned if I’m going to let somebody else’s kid disrespect me.”

Johnson added, “Knowing Cam like I do…. he’s not going to allow this to bother him. When you have someone like Cam Newton giving players an opportunity to display themselves at these 7-on-7 camps, you’re supposed to be taking advantage of these situations. Many times I’ve seen players, coaches, and parents disrespect Cam Newton at these camps," the paper said.

Former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III added that Newton is "used to being a one-man army, so you are delulu if you thought some guys jumping him was gonna phase him. Hat didn’t even move," the Post said.

Griffin added, "In all seriousness, I HATE seeing this. Cam Newton nor anyone should ever be disrespected in this way. How can we rise, do better for our communities, and change the narrative when we are attacking each other like this?" the paper noted.

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This NFL player says he doesn’t want WHITE PEOPLE teaching his kids...



Former Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, who is currently a free agent, apparently has a problem with white people teaching his seven children.

Jason Whitlock plays the video of Newton explaining his issues with the private schools he sends his kids to.

"Something alarming happened when my daughter came home. ... She said, 'Dad, a white person is teaching us about black history,' and I was like, 'Yo, that's not right,'" Newton said.

“If a white person is teaching about black history, can a black person teach about Caucasian history [or] European history?” he asked. “You could, but there's gonna be some things that are left out,” like “slavery [and] how Africans moved to America.”

One of Newton’s interviewers had her own bit to add. “They’re not letting black teachers…” she trailed off, insinuating that black educators are being barred from teaching in schools.

“Black teachers have been banned, and white teachers don't teach about slavery, and Cam Newton has no responsibility to teach his own kids about history,” sighs Whitlock in staunch disagreement with Newton’s perspective.

“Black professors or teachers certainly can teach European history,” adds Delano Squires, who agrees that Newton should assume the responsibility of teaching his children about history.

“I think all of this colorized history is a mistake. ... We just need to teach American history, and that should be universal to everybody,” says Whitlock.

Squires, however, does find value in teaching black history specifically.

“There are certain facts of history — a certain battle took place on this particular day, a certain event took place on another day — but the perspective on those issues is very much different,” he explains. “Consider how different ... the death of George Floyd will be taught in schools 50 years from now, depending on whether you have a teacher who has, let's say, more pro-law enforcement leanings as opposed to one who has more pro-BLM leanings.”

Both types of teachers will convey that “yes, this man died on this particular day, but how he died, how they characterize it, [and] the terms that they use will be very much different, depending on who shapes the narrative,” he tells Whitlock.

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Whitlock: Joe Burrow may be suffering from Colin Kaepernick disease



I hope I’m wrong about Joe Burrow, the Cincinnati Bengals' quarterback.

I’m rooting for him. No different from how I rooted for Josh Rosen, Robert Griffin III, Cam Newton, and Colin Kaepernick. I root for pretty much every young quarterback. I want them all to be the next John Elway or Tom Brady or Peyton Manning.

Great quarterbacks make sports fun and interesting.

So Cincinnati Bengals fans, back off. We’re on the same team. My tweets analogizing Burrow to Rosen and Griffin were not written with malicious intent. They reflect my gut instincts at the moment.

They reflect the reality that sometimes young quarterbacks trip over their own egos and sabotage their careers.

I pride myself on having a highly sensitive QB-ego radar that allows me to detect potential problems before others see them. It starts with a gut feeling and then grows.

Monday afternoon, during a discussion with T.J. Moe and Steve Kim on my podcast, I had a tingling in my gut when we started talking about Joe Burrow. Initially I attributed the tingling to the thought of eating Skyline chili while visiting Kings Island theme park last Saturday. The chili is considered a delicacy in Cincinnati. A humane person wouldn’t feed that garbage to a dog.

Upon review, it wasn’t the chili that set off my radar. It was the realization that Burrow has some of the same personality quirks and characteristics as Rosen, Griffin, Newton, and Kaepernick.

Burrow is off to a horrible start in the 2022 NFL season. Fresh off a Super Bowl appearance, the Bengals are 0-2, having lost to the Mitchell Trubisky-quarterbacked Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cooper Rush-led Dallas Cowboys.

Joe Burrow is supposed to be the next big thing in football. In his first complete, injury-free season, he led the Bengals on an improbable run to the Super Bowl. Prognosticators saw Burrow as the second coming of Dan Marino.

But now Burrow can’t outscore Trubisky and Rush, two quarterbacks who will be holding clipboards around Halloween. What’s the problem?

Burrow has tossed four interceptions in two games. Despite a dynamic receiving corps, his yards per attempt hover around the bottom of the league. Cincy has scored a total of 37 points this season. Burrow has been sacked 13 times.

You can blame the sacks on Cincy’s rebuilt offensive line, but there’s more to the story. Burrow doesn’t look comfortable in the pocket. He’s leaving the pocket too soon, and he’s not climbing up in the pocket and helping his offensive tackles. The sacks are a combination of bad O-line play and a skittish quarterback who was sacked 70 times last season.

There’s more.

Does Burrow have the right attitude? Is Burrow too cocky for his own good? Has he prioritized social justice virtue-signaling above football greatness?

Is Burrow suffering from Colin Kaepernick disease?

The disease killed Josh Rosen in the football womb. The UCLA quarterback entered the NFL with the stated goal of being a social justice champion and complaining about the nine teams that didn’t draft him in the first round. He lasted one season as a starter in Arizona.

Kaepernick disease is a deadly form of arrogance, shallowness, narcissism, and wokeness. The disease is triggered when agents, handlers, and media influencers convince young athletes that their mission is to be more than athletes.

The disease has been around for a little more than a decade. Scientists believe the virus leaked from a laboratory in Portland, Oregon, years ago when Nike executives, at the behest of China, developed a formula to make LeBron James the next Muhammad Ali.

The leak sparked a pandemic across football and basketball. An early symptom of the disease was the desire to kneel during the national anthem. New variants of Kaepernick disease cause athletes to speak out on political issues they know very little about.

Burrow recently posted on Instagram about abortion and the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. In June, he urged politicians to “get those crazy guns.” Back in 2020, during the summer of George Floyd, Burrow and his Bengals teammates made a joint statement standing in front of the National Underground Railroad Museum.

There’s no doubt Burrow has at least a mild form of Kap disease. It’s not just the wokeness. The arrogance and flamboyance are other telltale signs of Kap. Arrogance and flamboyance destroyed Cam Newton and RG3.

Like Newton and Griffin, Burrow had a singular, spectacular season in college football, won the Heisman Trophy, and entered the NFL draft amid high expectations.

Early in Newton’s and Griffin’s pro careers, my QB-ego radar started sending me signals that they would not sustain their success. Once Newton committed to dressing like the Queen of England, I jumped ship. When Griffin refused to come out of a playoff game against Seattle, even though it was obvious that his injured knee rendered him useless, I jumped off the Griffin bandwagon.

I was ridiculed and reviled for arguing that their egos and off-field ambitions would undermine their success.

That’s what I see potentially happening with Joe Burrow. He wants to be more than an athlete. He wants to be a fashionista. He wants to engage in political discussions. He’s distracted and cocky.

He’s headed down the same path as Rosen, Griffin, Newton, and Kaepernick. Those guys all ignored my warning and continued down the path of destruction.

Joe Burrow should focus solely on football right now. He can be a runway model and uninformed political pundit in his 40s. Now’s the time to be a great quarterback.

'F*** Xi Jinping!' How China Is CENSORING Our Media



Corporate media has declared war on free speech, and China is pulling the strings. Hey, at least they aren't pretending any more! We cover the latest and how to fight back. We also review the "jokes" told at Nerd Prom. And Discovery+ wants your kids to dress in drag.


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'Watch your mouth or face punishment': CCP threatens citizens as China remains locked down



News reports or social media can convey a story, but firsthand accounts do an excellent job of explaining the problem. So, when the Chinese Communist Party does everything possible to stop the spread of both disease and information, it is time to pay attention.

Do not ignore the warning signs if your government takes drastic measures to keep the world in the dark about living conditions. Here are a few creepy warning signs/"guidelines" imposed on the Chinese people as they are forced into another COVID lockdown:

  • Do not post pandemic-related messages online.
  • Do not enter or leave Beijing without permission.
  • Spies are among us; leaks may happen in an instant. Watch your mouth or face punishment.

Louder with Crowder was fortunate to have a Mug Club audience member call in from Shanghai with a firsthand account of what is happening on the ground.

Comedian Dave Landau filled in for Steven Crowder and interviewed the caller, who must remain anonymous for obvious reasons, to give us a picture of what it's like in China right now.

CALLER: I'm fairly privileged; I'm in a neighborhood with many expats, so we're doing a lot better than a lot of the lower socioeconomic Chinese at the moment. We can get a little bit of food delivered every few days. We get a little bit of fruit and a few vegetables; we can hunt online to find out who has some food and find someone who has a "very special pass" and is allowed to be on the road. We actually pay them an exorbitant amount of money to get the food delivered. What is actually available is very, very sporadic.

DAVE: I guess if you're getting a little bit of food, you probably weren't that prepared. Was there any notice given to prepare?

CALLER: It was really quick. The total lockdown gave us a day, and it was supposed to be for four days. We got together enough for about six days, and now we're two and a half weeks in. The stores in China were reportedly closed before the lockdown, so even as some cities are beginning to reopen, grocery stores are not stocked because there have been no deliveries for more than two weeks.

CALLER: I've got two kids as well, and we have to do online school.

The caller provided shocking information about what happens in China when a child turns up with a positive COVID test. The kid is taken from the home and put into these quarantine camps without the parents or an advocate.

Watch the video to hear more from this heartbreaking account of what human beings in China are facing at the hands of their government.

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Americans EVACUATED as China lockdowns turn VIOLENT



China's lockdowns are turning violent, and it's time for Americans to start paying attention. Also, there was yet another violent crime in NYC. Cam Newton had interesting thoughts about "boss b****es." And the guys say goodbye to a legend, Gilbert Gottfried.



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Whitlock: Cam Newton is a ‘bad b***h’ who doesn’t know when to be quiet or how to lead



The coroner’s report on Cam Newton’s NFL career should list “lack of self-awareness” as the cause of death, not misogyny.

Newton returned to the news cycle yesterday after media outlets circulated comments about women he made during a recent podcast interview. On the Sunday edition of the “Million Dollaz Worth of Game” podcast, Newton discussed his upbringing, his parents’ long marriage, and his philosophy on women.

The latter comments provoked the ire of feminists, the matriarchy, Twitter, and beta males and cast Newton as the love child of Archie Bunker and Cardi B.

Newton said: “It’s a lot of women who are bad bit***s, and and I say ‘bit***s' in a way not to degrade a woman but just to go off the aesthetic of what they deem as a ‘boss chick.’ A woman for me is handling your own but knowing how to cater to man’s needs. I think a lot of times when you get that aesthetic of like ‘I’m a boss bit**, I’m a this, I’m a that,’ no baby. But you can’t cook. You don’t know when to be quiet. You don’t know how to allow a man to lead.”

ProFootballTalk’s Mike Florio wrote that Newton’s “outdated views regarding gender roles and obligations” will make it more difficult for Newton to land a job this off-season.

I disagree. Sans the profane language, Newton’s views on gender roles and obligations are commonplace in the NFL or among high-net-worth men. His views are standard among people, regardless of income, with a biblical worldview. Genesis 2:18 says that God created Eve as a suitable helper (helpmeet) for Adam.

Newton’s views are not problematic or outside the mainstream, especially within his peer group.

It’s his lack of self-awareness that’s the problem. The content of his podcast interview is a reflection of the lack of self-awareness that has undermined the success of his NFL career.

Newton never fully delivered on his seemingly endless potential because of his distorted view of himself. Talent and the coddling produced by immense athletic gifts blinded the quarterback prodigy to the harsh realities and inevitabilities of playing the most challenging position in all of sports.

Talent isn’t enough at quarterback. The intangibles of leadership, film study, technique, and persona matter as much as physical skill. Cam Newton was a rock star playing the one position in football that requires an actor. Newton was Rick James, b***h! He needed to be Denzel Washington.

Had Newton played tight end or outside linebacker, he’d likely be seen as a sure-fire Hall of Famer and a missing piece for some team’s Super Bowl dream. Instead, at age 32, the former MVP is jobless, quite possibly finished as an NFL player, and too many miles from Canton, Ohio, to hitchhike to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Rich Gannon, a journeyman, played in more Pro Bowls, won more games, and had a better career than Cam Newton. Why?

Because Newton has no idea how to be a leader. You can see the shortcoming in his attitude toward women.

“You don’t know how to allow a man to lead.”

Newton doesn’t know how to lead. He fathered four kids with a woman, Kim Proctor, he refuses to marry. His relationship with Proctor ended because he fathered a fifth child with an Instagram model.

Why would a woman follow a man with five illegitimate kids? Why would a woman cater to the needs of a man who refuses to cater to her desire for monogamy, matrimony, and spiritual salvation? Why would a woman agree to be a suitable helper to a man who eschews being obedient to God’s will?

You can’t lead without sacrifice. You can’t lead without following first. In order to follow God, man must sacrifice the desires of the world.

This is at the heart of Newton’s professional underachievement. His talents convinced him he didn’t need to do all the little things that make great quarterbacks and great leaders. When it comes to relationships, wealthy men suffer the same delusion. They think finances allow them to bend the rules in their personal relationships with women.

I’ve made this mistake too many times to count.

In the podcast interview, Newton praised his dad and mom for sustaining their 38-year marriage. His parents are devout Christians. Newton said his father set a tremendous example of what a man is supposed to be.

Did Cam follow his father’s blueprint? Is Cam obedient to God’s will?

Cam’s lack of self-awareness is the reason he doesn’t know when to be quiet, when to be humble, when to be reflective, and when to evaluate his own behavior rather than analyze the actions of “bad bit***s” and boss chicks.

Newton’s intentions on and off the field are positive. He wants to be a great football player. He wants to build a great family, similar to his parents. Talent and money have prevented him from taking the necessary steps to make those goals a reality.

Virtually every NFL owner, executive, and coach desires a woman who can cook, caters to his needs, knows when to be quiet, and will allow him to lead. They want the exact same thing from their players.

As a football player, Cam Newton is a lot like the “bad bit***s” he describes. Everybody eventually tires of “bad bit***s.” The NFL is tired of Cam.