I'm explaining Newton's thought process here.
Newton said: "I didn't want to get injured."
Which everyone here took as "selfish", and that's fine (though it says something if you're angry about that), but another way to interpret that is that Newton acted because he didn't want to get taken out of the game. Which would have 100% ruined his teams chances of winning.
Of course, if he had said that, the football world would have gone to DEFCON 5, both keys in the lock, turn on my signal, **** the Soviets.
So with that in mind...you think the MVP of the season getting taken out when his team had to march 80 yards to score on his back is "no big deal"?