Panthers return home after Super Bowl 50

Not the Alpha Dog who needed to call all the shots.

“He (Miller) has just gotten better and better”. The Broncos’ T.J. Ward ultimately recovered the ball and returned it to Carolina’s 4-yard line.

Manning finished 13 for 23 for 141 yards against a strong Carolina (17-2) defense that just couldn’t match Miller and company.

Super Bowl MVP Von Miller etched his place in National Football League history but on Monday was full of praise for Peyton Manning, saying the Denver Broncos’ triumph was about much more than just his dominant defensive effort. He showed up and played. Hell, we did a lot of things that we were fast into doing.

Newton’s biggest Super Bowl problem was his failure to fight at the end of the game.

About those two losses: They hovered over Manning like a dark cloud.

King earlier pointed out on social media that Manning wasn’t held to this standard by journalists when he and the Indianapolis Colts lost the 2010 Super Bowl to the New Orleans Saints. Despite wearing gold shoes before the golden Super Bowl, Newton couldn’t finish off a dynamic season in which he was the league’s MVP.

CBS said 3.96 million unique viewers watched Super Bowl 50 across all devices, including CBSSports.com on PCs and tablets; the CBS Sports app for iPad, Android, Windows 10, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku and Xbox One; and NFL Mobile from Verizon. He started seven games for the Broncos this year while Manning was dealing with his foot injury. And a love-at-first-sight feeling with the Broncos that he hopes endures. This year is different. He’s been taking it week by week this year, insisting he’s not thinking about what he’ll do after the season.

“I’m going to follow old coaches’ advice and I think I’ll make a good decision and I think I’ll be at peace with it whichever way it goes”. Newton had his worst game of the season; the last time he had a lower pass completion percentage was in October 2014.

Observations from Super Bowl 50, musings on the NFL at large, and some Twitter recommendations for free agency and the NFL Draft. He threw one interception and finished with a poor 56.6 passer rating.

Even after it was all settled, Manning wasn’t focused on breaking news. Some throws were off-target. At the end of the day when you invest so much time, when you sacrifice so much and things don’t go as planned, I think emotions take over.

The next move seems like an easy one. In this instance, Peyton Manning had 52 friends. He brought his two children onto the stage with him after the AFC Championship.

Everything points to this being, as Manning told Patriots coach Bill Belichick, the “last rodeo”.

We now know it went so much deeper than just that. It’s impossible to see him content with playing the caretaker role in the biggest game of his career. Take a vacation. Enjoy the journey…for two are better than one, or in this case 53 are #1.

“We’ll take that trophy over to Pat this week and let him cherish it”, Elway said. “The season was hard”.