{"id":9164,"date":"2014-02-17T17:50:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T22:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9164"},"modified":"2014-02-17T17:50:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T22:50:56","slug":"cam-newton-not-going-to-holdout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/17\/cam-newton-not-going-to-holdout\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam Newton not going to holdout"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7192\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7192\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/camnewton.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/camnewton.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/camnewton-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/camnewton-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton is not considering a holdout as he heads into the final year of his rookie contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing the leader of this team, I don\u2019t think that would be a good look for me.\u00a0Not taking anything away from Patrick, he\u2019s an unbelievable player, and an elite corner in the league. But there\u2019s some things cornerbacks can do that quarterbacks can\u2019t.&#8221; Newton said referring to Arizona Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a season in which Newton stepped up and led the Panthers to the post season the former Heisman trophy winner has no concerns about his future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not worried about contract discussions right now. My main focus is just becoming the better player I can become.\u201d said Newton while on the\u00a0<em>Dan Patrick Show.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing into my fourth year, I want to make that leap, make that stride to be a marquee quarterback in this league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newton completed a career best 61.7 percent of his passes for 24 touchdowns and 3,379 yards while throwing 13 interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton is not considering a holdout as he heads into the final year of his rookie contract. \u201cBeing the leader of this team, I don\u2019t think that would be a good look for me.\u00a0Not taking anything away from Patrick, he\u2019s an unbelievable player, and an elite corner in the league. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[83,126,426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-cam-newton","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-front","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9164"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}