Cam Newton all about business

Newton steered a number of questions back to the topic he wanted to discuss, which was the immediacy of trying to break a two-game losing streak, and win a home game for the first time since he returned to the Panthers.

And when someone mentioned the outside chance of the playoffs at 5-7, Newton looked almost incredulous.

“Can we please stop mentioning that word? I’m trying to get a win,” Newton said. “I’m 0-2. I’ll be lying to somebody to talk about playoff football. The important thing for me is, . . . yeah, we know what the grand scheme of things is, but the reality is I’m 0-2. The feel-good story of Cam coming back, and I said this then, and I’ll say it now, this ain’t no Cinderalla. I’m here to win football games, all right? So all the feel-good stories about how we met, and this, that, and the third, or who got cut, who got released, I’m here to win. And if we win, everybody else gets a promotion, and when you don’t, a lot of people are going to get cut. That’s just the harsh reality of playing.

“I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. I just want the message of this to be, I’m focused all on Atlanta.”