CHARLOTTE DJ Moore Color Rush Jersey , N.C. (AP) — Panthers general manager Marty Hurney is “cautiously optimistic” Cam Newton will be ready for the Sept. 8 regular season opener against the Los Angeles Rams after the quarterback suffered a left mid-foot sprain in a preseason game.Newton injured his foot in Carolina’s 10-3 loss Thursday night at New England on a sack.Newton was trying to avoid pressure in the first quarter when he got tripped up and landed on the turf. He hobbled to the sideline and grimaced in pain on the bench before walking under his own power to the locker room.The 2015 league MVP only played 11 plays and the Panthers gained just 29 yards. He was sacked twice.Newton left the stadium in a walking boot and didn’t address the media before boarding the team bus. He was playing in his first game since Dec. 17.Newton struggled through shoulder issues last season, which limited his ability to throw downfield as the year progressed. By the end of the season Newton could barely throw more than 20 yards and the team would sub him out on Hail Mary passes. He missed the final two games of the season and underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder in January.He was held out of the first two preseason games because the Panthers didn’t want him to risk injury.The Panthers don’t have much experience at quarterback behind Newton.Kyle Allen is second on the depth at quarterback, rookie third-round draft pick Will Grier is third and Taylor Heinicke fourth. They have just two NFL regular season starts between them.Carolina’s offense, which struggled in a Week 2 preseason loss to Buffalo, was abysmal against the Patriots James Color Rush Bradberry Jersey , managing just 99 yards and seven first downs.Newton played three series and was 4 of 6 for 30 yards and was sacked twice.“Obviously, we hope that Cam is OK,” Panthers tight end Greg Olsen said after the game. “On top of that, offensively, we were not very good. We didn’t check any of our boxes as far as the third preseason game goes. We have been here before and we have had great third preseason games and bad third preseason games. I don’t know how much correlation they have to how your season goes.“But you just can’t all of a sudden turn a switch and say we are going to be good now.” Many have criticized Colin Kaepernick for settling his collusion grievance against the NFL because the settlement keeps the details of the case from entering the public domain. Some have responded to this argument by pointing out that Ian Thomas Jersey , because Kaepernick opted to pursue an arbitration and not a lawsuit, the details wouldn’t have entered the public domain, because the case would have unfolded privately.That’s technically accurate, but it doesn’t mean the details never would have surfaced. As noted by Peter King in his column, the outcome of the arbitration could have been challenged in federal court. Although such efforts as a practical matter usually fail Curtis Samuel Color Rush Jersey , success would come from attaching as exhibits to the court papers items like the full transcript of the formal arbitration hearing.Even without such proceedings, however, testimony, text messages, emails Daeshon Hall Jersey , etc. easily could have been released by Kaepernick or his lawyers after the case had ended. Despite the existence of a gag order that kept the parties from discussing the case while it was pending, arbitrator Stephen Burbank would have had no ability to sanction Kaepernick’s lawyers or otherwise limit their ability to send items to media members on the arbitration ended, even without a challenge in federal court.Keeping those materials secret is a big part of what the NFL paid for. This doesn’t necessarily mean that a smoking gun was lurking in the evidence. But there surely were potentially embarrassing snippets of testimony or text messages or emails or other documents that the NFL would have preferred to keep out of public view; indeed, it was the NFL not Kaepernick that insisted on full and complete secrecy while the proceedings were pending.By settling the case and securing a commitment that none of the information developed during the litigation would ever be published, the NFL keeps everything under wraps Trai Turner Color Rush Jersey , including but not limited to whatever text message or emails or other documents prompted Kaepernick’s lawyers to attempt to question the Commissioner’s wife.