Super Bowl 50 game-day action

In fact, it might be the final time we see Peyton Manning in the NFL.

If they do win, this team may figure that if the offensive tackle can hold up to this team, maybe they can develop and improve going into next season coming off of that high note.

“Everybody bet against us”, Trevathan told The Denver Post after the game. “But they didn’t realize how much talent we have on defense, how much speed, how much athleticism, how much grit”. As great as the Carolina defense is, I think people have been sleeping on the Broncos defense all season.

Then it beat Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady and Cam Newton in the postseason.

“You just have to come back and fight next year”, Ealy said. They will need to win those battles, because the Broncos offense can not be relied upon to be consistent through the course of a game. Miller knocked the ball free, and it was recovered by Denver safety T.J. Ward at Carolina’s 4-yard line. Seriously, can anyone imagine a fourth quarter comeback from the Carolina Panthers with the way they’ve played this game. And I’m probably going to take care of those things first.

He had the better defense on his side, the Wade Phillips-coordinated, No. 1-ranked defense. “I’m just very grateful”, Manning said in his postgame interview with Tracy Wolfson.

Newton didn’t comment on how it felt to lose during his breakout season beyond saying “we lost”.

On Sunday, Denver’s defense kept Newton, the league’s MVP, jittery all day.

He is a five-time league MVP, who won his first Super Bowl championship with the Colts in 2007.

Did anyone come away with that impression after Super Bowl 50?

“I’ll take some time to reflect”, he added.

There was a sense in some quarters that DeMarcus Ware was on his last legs in Dallas, that one of the best pass rushers of his generation was on the downside of his career.

“He didn’t want it”, cornerback Aquib Talib said. Denver and Carolina are set to face off in Super Bowl 50.