Broncos choose to wear white road uniforms in Super Bowl

“Whichever ones you have, you have, and you try to do the best you can to prevent them, try to do the best you can to get them back”.

While the Panthers easily handled the Atlanta Falcons and Carolina’s punter and Wisconsin alum Brad Nortman wasn’t needed much, the Broncos-Patriots game had two former Badgers play a major role.

Peyton Manning will not retire with as many Super Bowl rings as Tom Brady, but he will likely retire with the upper-hand in head-to-head playoff matchups.

In what was supposed to be a dogfight between the NFC’s two best teams in the NFC Championship Game, Carolina emerged as the clearly superior team over the Arizona Cardinals. Future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning will be a headline-maker as he pursues his second career Super Bowl win, but this version of the Denver attack is more about balance and timely plays than it is lofty scoring totals. If Gostkowski converts there, New England could have merely kicked another extra point after its last-minute touchdown to tie it and send the game to a heart attack-inducing overtime.

The Super Bowl winners each get $102,000 and the losing team’s individual share is $51,000. For now we have to wait two weeks to see if my strong prediction comes into place.

No, the Broncos offence isn’t anywhere close to the juggernaut the Carolina Panthers are putting on the field these days. This one has the makings of a great championship game. After giving the ball away more than they stole it during the regular season, Denver has just one giveaway since Manning returned to the lineup in the second half of the regular-season finale.

Brady paid tribute to Denver’s ruthless defense. Their defense scores more points then any other team in the league.

“We called timeout on the 2-point play because DeMarcus was beat up, took himself out”, Kubiak said, “and we weren’t going to play another play without him out there”.

Brady finished with 310 yards and one touchdown on a 27-for-56 passing effort.

But the Broncos’ defense saved its finest performance of the season for Sunday, hitting Brady 20 times, sacking him four times, breaking up 10 of his passes and intercepting him twice in a 20-18 victory. Denver, I think, (messed up), because they end up doubling the flat. Just because watching him throw the football here, watching how hard he worked.

Whether it’s been Manning or Brock Osweiler under center for Denver, the offense has been nothing special this year. Ranking sixth in both yards and points allowed, the Panthers change games by forcing turnovers.

This was the 17th meeting between Manning and Brady and was the fourth match up between the two legendary quarterbacks in an AFC title game.

“It’s all interconnected between the receivers, the quarterback, the offensive line, the timing, the execution, the balance in the running game, longer yardage situations”.