Carolina Panthers beat the Washington Redskins, 26-15 on Monday Night Football

Carolina Panthers beat the Washington Redskins, 26 to 15 Monday night on ESPN. Cam Newton is 4-0 against the Washington Redskins and is 20-5 in December/January past six seasons, the only other quarterbacks who have better records are Peyton Manning (12-2) and Russell Wilson (18-4). Redskins playoffs hopes dwindled to 25 percent after the game, before the game it was up to 53 percent. Panthers come ready to play Monday night, Panthers was up 13-9 at halftime; gaining 235 of total yards and forcing one turnover thanks to Kurt Coleman interception, that’s his 11^th since the start of 2015 mots of any NFC safety. The first play of the third quarter Wes Horton striped and recover Kirk Cousins fumble, two plays later Tolbert caught a 1-yard play-action pass for a touchdown.

            In the second quarter, on a third down play Cam Newton scramble then sled and appeared to be hit in the head by Redskins LB Trent Murphy. An official was right over the hit and threw a flag and everyone, including me assumed that it would be an illegal hit. But they called it an unsportsmanlike conduct on Cam Newton for tossing the ball at Murphy after the play, former NFL referee Greg Austin said “That was a sliding quarterback and you have helmet to helmet contact, you should have had a call there.” This constant no calls on helmet to helmet hits on Cam Newton is nonsense. The NFL has said it will protecting its players is their chief concern, but when you see Cam hit in the head constantly, not just this year but his entire career. Especially since the referee was right there and saw it happen, I understanding the unsportsmanlike conduct on Cam Newton you’re not supposed to throw a football at an opposing player when the play is dead, but it should be offsetting. I guess you can count this one up with the other no calls Cam Newton hasn’t gotten the past two years.

            Cam Newton and Jonathan Stewart both had great games, Newton was 21-37 for 300 yards and 2 touchdowns while Jonathan Stewart rushed for 132 yards, the first time this seasons he rushed for over 100 yards, leading the Panthers offense to 438 total yards. Panthers defense also showed up forcing 3 turnovers and only giving up 29 rushing yards and not allowing Kirk Cousins to throw a touchdown pass. Carolina Panthers (6-8) will host the Atlanta Falcons (9-5) Saturday.