Cam Newton visibly disappointed after Super Bowl loss, leaves press conference

Peyton Manning is also playing better football, during the regular season he was a turnover machine but in his two games as a starter in the playoffs he has a total of 0 turnovers.

Ware smothered Newton at the Carolina 6-yard line with 2:40 left in the game for Denver’s seventh sack in the game.

Long yardage contributed to the problems. Miller had 2 1/2 sacks, including two strip-sacks against overmatched right tackle Mike Remmers that led to Denver’s two touchdowns. Their average yards to go was 9.5.

Newton, whose presence made the Panthers six-point favorites going into the game, walked out during his postgame interview.

“Their defence created more turnovers and more opportunities than our defence did”.

“It doesn’t feel good”, Stewart said.

Added Rivera, “Give credit to what they did”.

“They just outplayed us, that’s what it comes down to”, he said.

At least let’s hope it was the final game of his career.

“It’s very special, I’m very proud of these guys”, said Manning, who said he was unwilling to make a decision about his future plans in the heat of the moment.

“I got some good advice from (former Indianapolis coach) Tony Dungy”.

“I got a couple of priorities in order. I’ll take some time to reflect”, said Manning.

Regardless, Miller, smiling, said he happy to pick up the bar tab.

“It wasn’t just for Peyton”. Fast, versus Slow. This game had just about every angle one could imagine. I mean, we fumbled the ball when we really haven’t fumbled the ball.

If he bothers looking back to his last game, he’ll see a quarterback who looked all of his 39 years and more.

Head coach Ron Rivera said: “We’ve talked about getting to the mountain peak and obviously we’re at the top of the mountain but we’re not at the peak”. He didn’t have to go out there and do it all on his own, and he knew that. Manning completed 13 passes for 141 yards and got the Broncos moving to start both halves. I’ll lay some things out for him.

The Broncos strengths are on defense, coming number 1 against the pass and number 4 against the run and are coming off back to back victories against two hall of fame QBs in Big Ben and Brady.

“In my opinion, we’re the greatest defense to ever play the game”, linebacker Brandon Marshall said.

Spearheading the league’s top-ranked defense, Miller was all over the choppy turf at Levi’s Stadium.

But Miller, who missed that loss to Seattle because of a knee injury, already was in place, set to pair with Ware as a unsafe duo.

– The Super Bowl victory for the Broncos was the third in franchise history, making them the ninth National Football League team to do that.

The last time the Panthers lost in the Super Bowl, it took 12 years to get back. They were embarrassed by the Seahawks and the game was over before the end of the first quarter. “We won a Super Bowl and all the rules have been changed”. The day I’m speaking of is Super Bowl Sunday, a day spent preparing food and icing down those cold ones.

– The fumble recovery for a touchdown by Denver defensive end Malik Jackson was the first in a Super Bowl in 22 years, since Dallas Cowboys safety James Washington had one a win over the Buffalo Bills.