Eli Manning won’t say if Peyton Manning will call it quits

From repeatedly smoking Patriots right tackle Marcus Cannon out wide, to making one of the more ridiculous breaks on a football I have ever seen from an edge rusher appear utterly routine on his interception, to making a crucial tackle on a double screen on third down, Miller was playing out of his damn mind.

‘They talk about maturity. Boston asked. “One of y’all got to live!” I think that would be very anticlimactic.

But few people in the room deserved more credit than the quarterback already enshrined in Canton who stood near the locker room exit, smiling broadly and chatting with reporters while wearing one freshly earned AFC championship cap and holding a handful of others.

A running quarterback? An athletic quarterback? A leader. A victor. How are these Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl? “I’m rooting for him, but shoot, I want that ring”. Newton said he’s comfortable in the position he’s in now and could not “care less what you say” about him. “We’ve been in these situations all season”. For now, the Broncos’ defensive front deserves all the praise because they damn sure went out there and earned it against New England. Everybody plays hard. We play fast. Too brash, they say.

Barring a barrage of bets on the Denver Broncos in the days leading up to Super Bowl 50, the Carolina Panthers will be huge favorites in Las Vegas. He’s played. He’s been in a Super Bowl.

“The mindset to me is that you know we play for 60 minutes – even though we haven’t consistently played well for 60 minutes – you know our mindset has been there”, Elway said.

“He hasn’t said anything to me”, Kubiak said.

I’ve been sitting here, thinking, talking and writing about the Denver Broncos for the last five months, and throughout the whole time, I just kept asking my self, “Is this really happening?” “And it feels great”. From pre-draft critiques in 2011 to a Tennessee mother in 2015, Newton has drawn the ire of a number of National Football League fans and observers over the years.

“It’s amusing we still fight that battle – based on what?” “… I guess the only thing I’ll say is it seems like every year they say the pocket passer is a dying breed”.

But Newton has had the “pedal to the metal” and the 26 year old is the nearly certain MVP of the league.

‘He has always strived to have that separation, ‘ Rivera said. I guess they just don’t exist anymore. “It should really be about your merit”.

“I think he’s (Manning) going to be the sentimental pick in what will likely be his last game, but it’s going to a tough, tough task against this Carolina team”. He’s always strived to get that separation. The NCAA determined Cam Newton and Auburn were innocent of wrongdoing in the case.

“The thing I’ve told the players is this is about Super Bowl 50”.