Cam Newton: ‘Yeah, we are going to the Super Bowl’
In the NFC semifinal, the second seeded Arizona Cardinals head across the country to face the top seeded Carolina Panthers.
Ginn played a big role in the Panthers’ 49-15 victory over the Cardinals – yes, his old team – Sunday night in the NFC Championship Game at Bank of America Stadium.
A pair of club seats near midfield have already sold for $12,100 each, making them the most expensive seats sold so far, according to SeatGeek.
Owen Daniels had earlier scored two touchdowns from Manning passes either side of Steven Jackson’s one-yard run to help Denver to a 17-9 half-time lead.
By no means was he a one-man show.
“We dug ourselves in a hole and just never came close to coming out of it”, Palmer said. “Yeah, we won the football game, but there are some things we’ve got to go back and huddle up and be better with”. It’s not over yet. “We’ve got two weeks to get this team ready”. “We understand this is an opportunity for us to move forward, but we’ve got to win, first”. In 2004, the Panthers lost to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVIII.
The Panthers quarterback was selected No. 1 overall in the 2011 NFL Draft, but Carolina’s decision to use their selection on him wasn’t universally agreed with. Of course, they’re 0-8 in those games, with an average margin of defeat of 26.4 points. The initial line favored Carolina by 5 1/2 points, and was quickly bet down to 4 points.
The last time these teams met was in a wild-card playoff game in January of previous year.
The Carolina Panthers All Pro linebacker Thomas Davis has come back from smashed fingers, torn ligaments as well as the various manglings of the body that come as standard in the NFL. That’s not to say that the Panthers will definitely win, but they won’t be short for confidence going into Sunday’s game. “We’re going to live in the moment right now. We’ve been doing it for a long time and we’re going to stick with our recipe”.
The offense was aggressive scoring a field goal and a touchdown on its first two possessions after intermission. Arizona was able to score a touchdown at the beginning of overtime after Aaron Rodgers completed another Hail Mary that gave the Packers a chance at overtime.
The Arizona Cardinals continue their journey to Super Bowl 50 in a rematch of 2015’s Wild Card with the Carolina Panthers. You can’t be a wild rusher with big, wide B-gaps or let him run in the A-gap and do what he wants to do because he’s actually a running back himself. He took the ball and went left.
Home-field advantage definitely felt relevant, as the Cardinals and Palmer seemed rattled the entire evening.
He felt like he needed to make a play happen. Both teams scored 35 regular season touchdowns through passing, while Arizona were tied for the lead in the National Football League this season with 19 rushing touchdowns.