Carolina Panthers fans have long contended that quarterback Cam Newton is treated unfairly by the talking heads of the national media: That he is ripped to pieces when he does something wrong, but never acknowledged when he plays like one of the greats. Once again, the media has vindicated their point.

On Sunday, Newton completed the 15th fourth quarter comeback of his career, surpassing Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers after charging back from a 17-0 fourth quarter deficit to beat the Philadelphia Eagles 21-17. Coming just days after Rodgers completed a comeback on Monday Night Football against the San Francisco 49ers, the media reaction to Newton and Rodgers' exploits were decisively different: For Rodgers, his triumph was met with the exaltations of the national media, who waxed poetic about how amazing and perfect and absolutely transcendent Rodgers is at his position in every way.

But for Newton? No such credit was given - The focus instead was on how in the world the big-market Eagles blew a three-score lead.

Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Cris Carter has noticed this, and spoke out this morning on the matter. Speaking on FS1's First Things First Monday morning, the Minnesota Vikings great made his case for why the narrative should be shifted from what the Eagles did wrong to what Cam Newton and the Panthers did absolutely right.

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"It's about Cam Newton in the fourth quarter," said Carter, who stated that he was incredulous that it had taken the program an hour and a half to discuss the topic of Newton's comeback. "If this was Tom Brady, and Tom Brady had done that, if he had a 133 passer rating in the fourth quarter at Philadelphia, we'd be talking about it before then. If it was Aaron Rodgers, we would have talked about it. ... If Cam Newton was up 17 points and Carson Wentz had come back, we would have talked about it before."

Carter then pounded the table about how Newton had managed to come back not with his legs (National pundits have long knocked Newton's ability to run the football as a "lazier" way of playing quarterback), but with his arm and mind. Carter also praised Ron Rivera's coaching and how he kept his team playing hard and believing they could still win, as well as the work offensive coordinator Norv Turner has done in fine-tuning Newton's game.

"I thought we should be talking about it more," said Carter. "It was a tremendous game by one of our best quarterbacks that we have, on the road, against the world champs."

Speaking during his Monday morning media availability, Rivera agreed with the sentiment that Newton's ability in fourth quarter situations is underrated, and also identified why that was.

"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."

But regardless, Rivera stated that Newton always wants the ball in the sort of situations that he was faced with on Sunday. And given that Newton has delivered time and again when the game is on the line, he will keep being trusted to take the ball and work his wonders.