Beyond Manning vs. Brady: How Patriots match up against Broncos

Cornerback Bradley Roby saved the game by picking off Tom Brady’s pass on a 2-point try with 12 seconds left to preserve a 20-18 victory for the Broncos over the Patriots Sunday in the AFC title game.

The Broncos’ defense harassed Patriots quarterback Tom Brady all day, with four sacks and a batted pass, but it wasn’t over until Brady provided some late-game magic that fell just short in a 20-18 loss.

The Broncos will head to Santa Clara, California, next weekend to continue preparations for Super Bowl 50.

Tom Brady is 0/3 on 3rd Down so far today, overall 4/8 for 26 yards. He was constantly hounded by Denver’s top-ranked defense, especially Von Miller as the linebacker finished with an interception and 2 ½ sacks.

Peyton Manning is obviously a great National Football League quarterback and is easily one of the top-5 or 10 who have ever played the game.

The New England Patriots trail the Denver Broncos 7-6 after one quarter.

I mentioned Jamie Collins pre-game and he comes up big at the beginning of the second half.

That left it to one play, and after the Broncos took a timeout to give DeMarcus Ware time to rest and get back in the game, Aqib Talib stepped in front of Brady’s pass and deflected it skyward.

“I’m sure everyone can look at different plays throughout the game when it’s that close and say, ‘Man I wish I had made that play, ‘” Brady said. Manning still trails Brady 11-6 overall but improved to 3-2 against him in the playoffs.

At Charlotte, the Panthers forced seven Arizona turnovers and Newton completed 19 of 28 passes for 335 yards.

Steven Jackson sighting folks – the all-pro back plunges into the end zone for the score, but Stephen Gostkowski misses the extra point. “You know, you get to the AFC championship and you get down, you’ve got to play well”, Patriots safety Devin McCourty. But 17 completions were enough, and the two most important were touchdowns to Owen Daniels, the tight end who has played his whole career with Kubiak.

This will be Manning’s fourth Super Bowl appearance. Accordingly, he and his staff configured an offensive game plan around battering ram tailback LeGarrette Blount, who rushed a career-high 30 times for 148 yards and three touchdowns.

They’ll have the winter to debate it in New England. He has delivered in more big games than any other quarterback of his generation, regardless of his shortcomings in one particular round of the playoffs. “It’s not like we’re going out there and playing some defense that has nobodies on it. They’ve got great players, and they just made more plays than us when they needed to”. “We’ve given ourselves and opportunity and hopefully saved our best for last and in two weeks go out beat a good football team”. He took on that challenge and scored two touchdowns, but eventually, the Broncos would need to be able to run the ball. “To be going to our second Super Bowl in four years is very special and just an awesome effort by our entire organization”.