Has Cam Newton been playing with a concussion since the Broncos game?

Next up for the Panthers is a Monday Night matchup with the Bucs and top wideout Mike Evans, whose 26 receptions are good for a fourth-place tie for most this season.

Panthers head coach Ron Rivera and his defensive assistants made one of the boneheaded miscalculations of the young 2016 season. “And I expect them to do the job at a high level, and I’m sure they expect the same from themselves”. He’ll need to pass all the tests of the concussion protocol to be cleared to play in Carolina’s game on Monday night against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Derek Anderson replaced Newton and led the Panthers to touchdowns on his first two drives. The interception was one of the factors that kept the Panthers in the game. Rivera said Newton met with doctors on Monday but there was no update on his condition.

Those spit out averages of 6.5 receptions and 95.8 yards, even though, to be fair, about half of Jones’s 178-yard performance in Week 16 past year came against Panthers not named Norman. Cam Newton was taken out of the game for a slight concussion after a helmet to helmet hit in the end zone. “If I was playing, I would’ve taken a shot”.

SEAHAWKS 27, JETS 17: Russell Wilson was sharp and efficient despite playing with a sprained knee, throwing three touchdown passes in Seattle’s win over NY (1-3) at East Rutherford, New Jersey. Anderson won both games – and might have a chance to try to make it 3-for-3 against the Bucs. This season Cam Newton has only passed for 6 touchdowns with 5 interceptions in 4 games.

Newton hasn’t played well up to this point and is a long way from his MVP-caliber numbers from a year ago. His QB rating (80.2) is at a career low and he’s only completing 57.9 percent of his passes.

Asked whether Newton is taking too many hits, Rivera said his quarterback was the “one that can answer the question”.

So far, 2016 has been another step forward, with Ryan and the rest of the team putting their past struggles behind them behind a mix of new faces and leaders still left from that successful 2012 team.

There’s plenty of blame to go around though. Ryan threw for 503 yards-including 300 to Jones-giving the National Football League its first ever quarterback-receiver combination to have 500 yards passing and 300 yards receiving in a single game.

Because the Panthers let Josh Norman walk, Carolina had no one on the field who could possibly match up with Jones (who had an incredible 300 yards receiving).

Lynch, the team’s first-round pick out of Memphis, stepped in to make his National Football League debut.

Ryan and Jones put together an impressive performance and got in the record books during Atlanta’s 48-33 win over the Panthers. “You’d like to think we could get in there a little bit quicker”. “. There’s a lot of communication that goes on there, but that is the challenge that goes on as a coach”.

While others play the what-if game with Norman now in Washington, McDermott says he’s moved on. “When they tried to do that, they left me 1-on-1”. Again, I thought the protection, the things we wanted to do protections, the different chips that we used, the techniques that we were using.