Panthers Crush Cardinals On Their Way to Super Bowl

It seemed to work for the Cardinals Sunday evening in their 49-15 thrashing at the hands of the Carolina Panthers.

The Carolina Panthers were still putting the finishing touches on their dominating NFC Championship victory today to join Denver in two weeks at Super Bowl 50 in Northern California when the Westgate Las Vegas Superbook opened the Panthers as 5.5-point favorites.

In his post game comments, Newton made it clear neither he nor the team are done.

The Denver Broncos top-ranked defense is fully aware of the challenges facing it come Super Bowl 50 on February 7-namely Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers offense.

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The Cardinals are a first class organization as well, congratulating their opponent on a game well played. During the 2011 season, he led the nation with 191 tackles (102 solo) and went on to win the Butkus Award, Lombardi Award and the Bronko Nagurski Trophy.

It’s no big revelation, really, Coleman said, especially that Palmer forced deeper throws later in the game. He gained 47 rushing yards on 10 carries. He also threw for one touchdown and 235 yards while completing 23 of his 40 pass attempts. “There was pressure all day”.

“Yeah, we are going to the Super Bowl”. The fifth-year coach said he won’t have any more information on his status until after the meeting. Just ask Panthers wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr., who got plenty of payback against Arizona, making the Cardinals front office look like fools for cutting him last spring.

New England’s Stephen Gostkowski pushed an extra point to the right in the first quarter of the Patriots’ 20-18 loss at Denver – his first miss in 524 tries…. He has a pick-6 in both playoff games this month. Late in the first half, with Arizona gaining momentum for the first time (and what proved the only time), Ginn tracked down cornerback Patrick Peterson from behind to prevent him from returning an interception all the way for a touchdown.

Along the way, Newton set a Panthers postseason record for passing yards. Five plays later he took a pitch from Cam Newton, raced around left end on a reverse, changed fields and scored.

It was almost a repeat of the strong start for Carolina in the divisional playoffs. Palmer would subsequently fumble again on a sack by DE Charles Johnson.

The Cardinals kept trying, and put together a 79-yard scoring drive on which David Johnson starred after an ignominious start.

Carolina defender Luke Kuechly said the Panthers will try to impose themselves upon Manning in the title matchup.

This isn’t going to end well for the Broncos, no matter how well they’re playing. Carolina, a loser 12 years ago to New England, gets its second trip.

“We made that nice step to win the (NFC West) division and get up to that next level to the (NFC) championship game”, Arians said of his team, which finished 14-4.