One game at a time; Panthers focused on Cardinals

However, heading into the NFC Championship, the Panthers now face the same Arizona Cardinals team they beat a year ago, and this week it’s Arizona looking for revenge. Cornerback Josh Norman has been the biggest breakout player of the year with his elite coverage.

IT’S conference championship time in the National Football League and four teams are just one game away from a Super Bowl.

New England travels to Denver in what in a god like match-up between Tom Brady and Peyton Manning while Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers host Carson Palmer and the Arizona Cardinals in the first every playoff match between two Heisman trophy winners.

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They are expected to shadow a receiver, who knows where he’s going while the defender doesn’t, and the rules are stacked against them.

The total has gone OVER in 5 of Carolina’s last 6 games at home. He is the first Carolina Panthers player to earn the honor and the third consecutive quarterback to be selected MVP. You want the No. 1-ranked offense?

“It wouldn’t do me any good to talk about the next game if we don’t get there”, Panthers coach Ron Rivera said. They’re going to push the ball. Defensively, you can’t give up the big play.

Finnegan has the unenviable assignment of covering Fitzgerald in the slot, where the receiver has played about 60 percent of the time this season.

In last Saturday’s 26-20 overtime victory over Green Bay, the Cardinals managed just 40 yards rushing in 19 attempts, an anemic average of 2.1 yards per carry.

“I think he can make you miss but I think where he thrives at is route running and separation”, said Finnegan, who is 6 inches shorter and 50 pounds lighter than Fitzgerald.

Kuechly said Newton took him to dinner during his first weekend in Charlotte after the Panthers drafted him. “He’s a future Hall of Famer so there’s not a lot he can’t do”.

McClain will likely be matched up against Brown, a second-year receiver, for most of the game. Newton also ran 132 times for 636 yards and 10 touchdowns. And he picked up where he left off, crushing virtually all of his previous personal bests while throwing for 4,671 yards and 35 touchdowns, and his 11 interceptions were the fewest of his career over a full season. “It was wet, a soft field”, Powers said.

The Arizona Cardinals don’t seem to be too concerned with the fact that Charlotte, North Carolina and other areas north are about to get hit, if not already hit, with a major winter storm this weekend.

Don’t expect Carolina to come and blow out Arizona like they did Seattle and don’t expect another disgusting performance from Carson Palmer. If Newton had lost one more game this season, but still had the same stats, Palmer might have won the award.