Carolina Panthers wide receiver Jarius Wright has quickly become a trusted target when Cam Newton absolutely needs someone to get open and move the chains. Throughout the year, Wright has quickly become popular for his abilities out of the slot and in critical situations, and proved himself again last Sunday when he caught a two-point conversion that proved absolutely critical to the Panthers' 21-17 comeback triumph over the Philadelphia Eagles.

But alas, Newton's late-game heroics to knock off the Super Bowl Champions has been met with crickets from the national media. Instead of praising Newton's poise and ability to deliver in comeback situations (Newton now has 15 fourth quarter comebacks, which is more than Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, whose comebacks are met with universal praise each and every time they happen), much of the national narrative has focused on how the Eagles lost as opposed to how the Panthers won.

Though he is only in his first season with the Panthers, Wright can tell that Newton is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. And as such, he couldn't help but point out how Newton isn't getting enough respect from national pundits.

"Sometimes he don't get the credit that he deserves," said Wright, as reported by Mike Solarte of Spectrum News. "I was telling somebody earlier, 'If this was Aaron Rodgers or if this was Tom Brady, (the media will) still be talking about it all the way up until Sunday. ... They're not talking about it since it's Cam Newton, but like I said, if it was anybody else it would be a huge deal."

The exclusion of Cam Newton from such conversations can be derived, as always, from the fact that he does not play the quarterback position in a traditional manner. His generational ability to run the football and dish out punishment with his physicality (Newton actually served as a blocker for Wright on a second quarter play that went for 34 yards) has earned him plenty of detractors who dismiss him as a "running quarterback", without respect to the fact that Newton has and continues to prove that he is not just a one-dimensional scrambler.

Speaking about the lack of buzz surrounding Newton's comeback, Panthers head coach Ron Rivera traced the national media disrespect of Newton back to that notion.

"I think he gets overlooked because of his style of play," said Rivera. "It's not a prolific style. He runs the ball extremely well. He's not a pure, pure pocket passer, although there are elements of his game where he plays very well from the pocket."

Newton has been playing one of his more complete seasons to date, but the Panthers' offense being relatively unflashy when it comes to the vertical passing game has not captured many oohs and aahs. But if Newton keeps playing at the level that he did in the fourth quarter against a blue chip opponent like the Eagles, the talking heads will have no choice but to pay attention to him soon enough.