Cam Newton Gives MVP Address For Baker Mayfield
October 11th, 2025
Retired MVP quarterback Cam Newton joining ESPN TV as a football analyst is quite a marriage.
He’s got a lot to say and, frankly, Joe expects Newton to be canceled by Big Mouse at some point.
But while Newton’s featuring on First Dump First Take lasts, Joe will enjoy it. This week, Newton was crowing about how Baker Mayfield is his league MVP through five games.
“Man, I mean this boy been ballin’,” Newton told his ESPN audience. “I mean ballin’ out of control,”
Newton is impressed with Mayfield’s stats and how he’s carrying himself and taking backups to great heights.
“And he’s leaning in. I can appreciate that because don’t be no robot out there. Don’t be Pinocchio. Don’t nobody like Pinocchio. When you see Baker Mayfield play, he got a salt, he got the swag, he got the bravado, he got the aura,” Newton said.
“You know what I’m sayin’? He has all that with him and I enjoy it from the fan. Just how he’s playing and leaning in, and still doing it without his top-tier guys. And that’s something that needs to be said about Baker.”
Joe is enjoying all the Mayfield hype. It’s deserved. And it could last a long while if Mayfield can keep the Bucs humming — at least the offense — through the next three games before the Bucs’ Week 9 bye.
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