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Deebo Samuel Mistakenly Calls Out Cam Newton

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Deebo Samuel Mistakenly Calls Out Cam Newton
Deebo Samuel Mistakenly Calls Out Cam Newton

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Deebo Samuel had a bad week.

First, he lost to the Ravens on Christmas, and he didn't play particularly well. In the biggest game of the season, he had just 4 catches on 12 targets for 47 yards.

Then he went on Kay Adams' show, and Adams asked him about Cam Newton, who called Brock Purdy a game manager, not a game changer. Samuel clearly took exception to Newton's comment and wanted to defend his quarterback, so here's what Samuel said:

"First of all, stop texting my phone, bro. You were a fan like two weeks ago. You wanted me on your podcast after talking about my quarterback, which is funny to me."

Newton, of course, responded immediately. "Deebo, been a fan, still a fan, but you must stop the cap. You said stop calling your phone. I don't have your number. Whoever is calling you, that ain't my phone calling you. I don't even have your number to call you or reach out to you. And if I do, put it out there for people to see. I want the receipt, because maybe someone was reaching out to you that I don't know, but it wasn't me. Whoever is calling you, it ain't me."

Samuel accepted Newton's challenge and tweeted screenshots of text messages from someone claiming to be Newton.

Turns out, the text messages were from some random kids.

Samuel deleted his tweets of the text messages.

Better luck next week, Deebo.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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