Ex-Bengals QB Akili Smith Says Cam Newton Will Be A Good NFL Quarterback

Akili Smith, now an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach himself, is just hearing that some of the draft gurus have been comparing him to Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton and he doesn't see it. Unless, of course, it's the one-year wonder thing. "If they feel he's a one-year wonder, then, please, let him break in behind a veteran," Smith said this week from San Diego. "I love his game. I think he'll be a very good NFL quarterback. If he does what I didn't do and not get caught up in the clubs and the entertainment thing and he does what he's supposed to do in the offseason, he'll be fine." Smith catches a lot of grief as one of the biggest busts in NFL history as the third pick in the 1999 NFL Draft. But it was far from his entire fault and now as one of the most candid men to emerge alive from such wreckage, his once rambunctious lifestyle is retooled and settled at age 35. Smith is back coaching at his alma mater of Lincoln High School in an effort to get the degree that allows him to rejoin head coach Jeff Tedford's staff at the University of California. So he has watched Newton with a coach's eye. "I was nowhere near the athlete that Cam is," Smith said this week. "He's an amazing runner with great moves. And we ran different offenses. I never ran the zone option. But I'll always believe I had as good an arm as anybody."

Source: Bengals.com

 

If Akili Smith told me that Kurt Cobain was dead, I'd think he was alive. This guy doesn't know his backside from a hole in the ground. But if there is one thing he can see, it is that Cam Newton isn't as good as everybody seems to think he is. Chris Weinke was drafted following a Heisman and National Championship season. He ruined the Panthers. Cam Newton's not going #1. Have fun with this one, Washington Skidmarks!

 

Next up: Ryan Leaf's endorsement of Blaine Gabbert.

 

You gotta give Smith some sort of credibility. He knows first hand what bad is...it's only logical he would then think the opposite was good.

 

He's a lousy QB and one of the cockiest buttholes I ever met....