Cam Newton doubles down on calling Brock Purdy, Dak Prescott and others 'game-managers'

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Cam Newton recently came under fire when he said that multiple NFL MVP candidates were "game-managers."

The 2015 NFL MVP said that Dak Prescott, Brock Purdy, Tua Tagovailoa and Jared Goff, all of whom lead their respective divisions, are "game-managers."

"They're not difference-makers," Newton said earlier this week. "[They're being asked] not to lose. . . .I don't give a damn what you do. You don't have to score every time. You just don't have to throw a pick every time either. If we're going to call a spade a spade, a game-manager is different than a game-changer."

The term often has bleak undertones, but Newton disagrees.

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Brock Purdy, #13 of the San Francisco 49ers, and Dak Prescott, #4 of the Dallas Cowboys, talk after their game at Levi's Stadium on October 8, 2023, in Santa Clara, California. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

"Game-manager is not a negative connotation," Newton said in a video he posted to X, formerly Twitter, early Friday morning. "'Cam, what do you mean by game-manager?' My definition of that managing player is a player who has the ability to make the right play at the right time, protecting the football at all costs."

"Game-changer and game-manager is not something where I'm saying this person is not physically capable of making some great plays. I'm not saying that, or I am not saying that they're not good players."

Despite that compliment, though, he noted that those four quarterbacks have had help in being successful due to their surrounding talent.

"[Purdy's] putting it in guys' (hands) like Deebo Samuel and Christian McCaffrey. That's my point," he said.

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