Cam Newton On Florida, Aaron Hernandez, Tim Tebow, Urban Meyer & More: "A very toxic locker room."

your brief stent at the University of Florida they win the national championship the year before you got there correct uh yes as I was enrolling they were winning CH the championship yes sir Kim TBO is already there MH you know cuz Chris leak is the starter Tim TBO comes in they got packages for him yeah he's probably going to be the starter next year unless you being Cam and I know you I know how you think yeah I'm going go be I'm going go get this job yeah but that's what that's not how I was recruited though okay I was recruited at the minimum with your skill set you will have a package you have a package also just like TBO has okay and that's that wouldn't that okay okay I y'all won the National Championship a lot of these guys coming back I could do that you know what I'm saying like I'm looking at the style of runs I'm saying myself like that's me I could do that's me I had to to to get my feet wet in the SEC as a freshman sh four plays a game just to run man I could do that [ __ ] I I play linebacker early on in my wreck ball and then I transition into running back right then that transition two I could throw the further so now you can play quarterback so these things is a part of my whole thing that embodied who I was as a player so you get there and it's not shaping up kind of how they what they had told you or the way you envisioned it because all of a sudden you're not getting these four to five plays a game right and so did you have a conversation with Urban uh Urban was he didn't want to talk to me I wasn't important enough for urban to talk to me and Granny you got to think about it like this do you even have a voice to talk when the person you're trying to talk about is the hosman front runner yeah so I had a conversation with my father to say like pop it's time to kind of rethink this thing cuz I would not have wanted a backup to me to have the energy to say I only can play if he get hurt I'm not that type of person right right you don't want to put that negative in I didn't I was a I'm an ultimate Pro I'm an ultimate teammate like I I wanted people to succeed you see what I'm saying like I didn't want TBO to get hurt he's the greatest college football player to some people you know what I'm saying and it's objective if if not number one he top five and TM TBO is owed a large portion of who Cam Newton really is because just like just the same way I I gave you what sparked my aggression or my uh competitive nature with Jimmy Clawson it sparked the same thing with Tim tibo being around Aaron Hernandez the pouncy twins Chris Rainey Joe Hayden Carlos Dunlap major Wright Percy Harvin like Brandon James Brandon Spikes these Le Murphy all these great players that I was around I would have been a fool not to take what they were doing and what made them great and applied to my journey in Joo as well as Auburn right so some things transpired you get get into a little trouble with with a computer and you end up but that wasn't the reason why I I left the reason why I left like did I get in trouble yes that was already taken care of okay to me leaving oh okay okay yeah I didn't get kicked out of florid but see that's but see that's how they they frame the story yeah I didn't get kicked out of Florida okay I left Florida okay and when TBO announced that oh and by the way I'm coming back I said oh it was a no-brainer did hell I got to leave now I wasn't playing when you was here so and and then for Urban's sake you couldn't even identify who the backup was between me and John Bradley I'm like bro what the what are we going we fighting for scraps y'all can have this cool if it was up to me would did I want to leave hell no cuz them was my them are my brothers right like we build real relationships over that twoyear span that I was there we worked out together we trained together we bled Together We Cried together we sweated together we we prepared together and I'm seeing guys like Joe Hayden play early as a freshman I saying damn bro I would love to have an opportunity to play uh Maris pouncy playing early man I would have Lov to Aaron Hernandez playing early I would have love to to be out there and those things when they like bro like we'll go back to the dorms and have these conversations like bro that [ __ ] was lit like bro like you see all them people in there see I said damn I wish I saw them but that wasn't they was cheer for me you know the main everything all the reasons why I went to Florida was accomplished other than me playing and that's why I had to leave and at that time they didn't had a transfer portal so I had to get it out the mud you Urban me had to sign off to where I transferred to right he gave certain restrictions you cannot transfer to uh inate inate uh school so FAU FIU Florida State Miami I couldn't go to none of them right and I couldn't go any so I said how do I clear all that so I can go anywhere I got to go Jo I said [ __ ] I'm going Jo and on top of that what really ticked me to [ __ ] off was when my father had called Urban to ask for a championship ring he didn't give me a championship ring so that really was my driving force to becoming the player who I was I said don't worry about it I'm gonna go get my own got one in Joo got one in in ated Auburn you can make the case given the talent that you had at Auburn on the offensive side cam you had the greatest offensive season for a quarterback in in in in NCA history now I know Joe burrow threw for 60 touchdowns and 5,000 yards but he had Justin Jefferson he had Jamar Chase he had Clyde Edwards aair he had uh I forget the guy's name he's the tight end M at tight end and he had uh if I'm not mistaken other wide receiver the third wide receiver is in Carolina now so what you had look at the look at what you didn't have and what you were able to accomplish so basically Jimmy Clauson l a fire up under you Tim TBO l a fire up under you and urban l a fire up under you not only by not playing you the four or five snaps that he said he would give you but also when you ask for a championship ring for being on the team that you felt you were entitled to like no we good yeah but that's what made that what they call it that's what created the monster right and I if I could paint it the way I wanted to paint it while I was at Auburn there was a opportunity for Auburn to play Florida in the SEC champ that's what you wanted that what you want to C no racial slur but boy they would have seen a baboon out that [ __ ] I would have showed my whole ass boy that's what I wanted I wanted to prove to them that they [ __ ] that they made a mistake I knew that was my point to prove I was better than TBO that was my opportunity to prove that y'all [ __ ] up that was my opportunity to prove that this could have been y'all but you played me and there was times where I would be the first person to tell you while I was at the University of Florida I was not the matur person that I needed to be to lead that team and I would take responsibility for that but who I grew to be nobody was [ __ ] with me but by the time you came back that was the mature Cam Newton I needed to I needed alienation in Joo I was in Brenham Texas and if I were to give you the amount of money that you got from Cat Williams to put up on the line and say where is Brenham Texas you couldn't point it out and and everybody who was in Brenham on that team they had some roots or ties to Texas so there was many weekends there was many times where the closest family member was thousands of miles away only thing I could do was work out I cried I I mean I was vulnerable I was embarrassed but that shaped the creation of who cam was people don't remember this when I was at the University of Florida they called me Cameron Newton yeah when I went to Auburn it was Cam Newton so for me that was the creation of Cam two completely different people I knew how to compartmentalize those different people and I didn't let that situation used me I used it and when I look at my impact to football I love to say people's favorite NFL player just started to get good in the NFL I've been good at football by the grace of God I was good in high school I was good in college I was good in junior college and I was good in the NFL there's not a lot of players that can say that and and it took a measure of focus and discipline and also vulnerableness to understand like bro like you out here by yourself so when I talk to my 707 kids when I talk to kids around you know the world and I tell them like bro I know what it's like to not have [ __ ] and you so close to what you want it ain't out of your reach you just got to tap in and use this game of football and and and not get Jaded by the distractions the money the Nils the the the the wom yeah all these different things stay focused when you look at that roster you mentioned Percy harvy Brandon Spikes Joe Hayden Dunlap joris jenking Mike and Maurice pouncy uh person said he smoke smoked weed before every game did you know did you know y did you guys party that hard Camp damn [ __ ] we was Untouchable in gamesfield I ain't going to lie I was so disappointed in the in the documentary cuz they left out so much what it leave out [ __ ] Percy go go talk to Percy [ __ ] go talk to Charlie Strong [ __ ] go talk to Joe Hayden you see what I'm saying ask them to real and they would have did that [ __ ] for free [ __ ] all the Netflix deals and all that [ __ ] like we need to tell you want to tell this real story [ __ ] that was a very toxic locker room where they we still had success but damn it was a it was a combination of a lot of talent that was boiling over right and there was times where it was just un unmanageable and then there was also times where it was a thing of beauty where it was a com a competition every day every practice like we competed and even though Tim TBO was a person who I wanted to be better than Tim TBO made everybody better cuz he competed right that energy that he had that screaming that Ro and that Ah that's something that I could connect with and he connected with everybody else even the stadium want to join Club sh Shay become an official member by hitting that subscribe button where you never know who's going to be joining us for drinks and conversation don't be late to the party because you know we like to do something before to something

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Length: 12min 5sec (725 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 10 2024