re: Auburn Rivals Rankings

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Auburn has a lot more offense than just Newton. We'd be running a completely different offense if we had Trotter and the offense would still be very solid, obviously not as good as it is now but the drop off wouldn't be as huge as people seem to think.

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It would be a pretty big dropoff. Most Auburn fans argue otherwise, but I think you're considering Newton's stats alone, which are considerably more impressive than what Trotter would be able to produce.

You also have to consider, though, that Cam Newton is such a threat that he makes everyone on the offense better. Players like Dyer and McCaleb, for instance, would still be good, but they're that much better because defenses are using all of their resources to stop Cam. Defenses consistently have to spy Cam to minimize his running threat; if Trotter were playing, it would literally be like the defense added another player, since he wouldn't be the run threat that Newton is.

Newton's contributions go much further than his stats.