Rivera: LB Davis, DE Allen expected to start in Super Bowl

With so much at stake, it’s all hands on deck for both Super Bowl 50 teams. That doesn’t count injured 34-year-old cornerback Charles Tillman and 31-year-old nickelback Cortland Finnegan. The sooner you are honest about this with yourself and your partner the better. “But the human in me just wants to take it all in”.

While this all remains to be seen, and the Denver Broncos will certainly will have a say in it, this all seems to be pointing to a victory for the Panthers on Sunday.

“Can I prove they cheated?”

Safety Kurt Coleman bounced around the league before coming to Carolina and having his best season.

“Because Mike understands when the time is right, a job will be there, and right now he’s focused on us winning a Super Bowl”, Rivera said.

“You don’t know what you go through until you get to a point like this”, he said.

Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis has vowed to play in Sunday’s game at Levi’s Stadium despite breaking his right forearm in the NFC Championship game.

Newton, Kuechly, Lotulelei, Kawann Short and Shaq Thompson are core players who were drafted in the first or second round. “It hurt”, he said, laughing, “that’s all I can tell you”.

What stood out for Rivera the most during the week is the way players were able to “turn it on and off”. Now, all indications are that Davis will play on Sunday.

Carolina is trying to win the first Super Bowl in its history. “That was a ritual every year”.

“Without a doubt, I will be there playing”, Davis said.

“I told him I wanted him to be a part of a winning tradition and experience”, Ricky Proehl said. Fells’s knee smashed into Davis’s right arm at an awkward angle, and Davis immediately grabbed his arm in pain.

One thing you absolutely should know about Rivera is that before he was a great coach, he was a great family man and husband first. “From the time KK [Kawann Short] and Star [Lotuleilei] have been here, they’ve been learning and growing with the same coach”. “I respect his decision”, he said.

“I think about it. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t”, he said about the possibility of being enshrined. “I think that helped a lot”.

Rivera, who replaced John Fox as the Panthers’ coach in 2011, knows how far he has come, but he isn’t celebrating this as a personal achievement or reveling in the fact that he has a team in the Super Bowl while Lovie Smith – who fired him as defensive coordinator of the Bears after the Super Bowl season of 2006 – is looking for work.

As game day gets closer, ticket prices for the Super Bowl on the secondary market are dropping.

“Not really surprised he’s a coach and not surprised he’s as successful as he is, because I saw that as a freshman”, Wilks said. “Some of the things they do, we try to do as well”.

“I keep up with Wake, but I’m a Carolina fan”.