Panthers to meet Broncos in Super Bowl

Davis’ teammates praised his toughness and said it’s hard to imagine anyone trying to tell him he couldn’t play in his first Super Bowl after spending his entire career trying to reach this pinnacle.

“When we were getting ready to come out for the second half, I didn’t have to say anything”. “I think that was part of, ‘I don’t want to screw this up.’ Now that we don’t have to worry about doing that anymore, we can go back to being ourselves”. Palmer was making his first playoff appearance in six years and admitted he had to get over “butterflies”.

On Carolina’s next possession, facing a third-and-long from its own 14-yard line, Newton spotted Philly Brown open at the 40 versus man-to-man coverage.

The Cardinals will move Fitzgerald around, into the slot at times, and even coming through the backfield as he did on the shovel pass that beat Green Bay in overtime last week. He said the Panthers got too conservative – something the team can not afford to do against the NFL’s top-ranked offense.

“I just tried to become an athlete”, Ginn said.

As you can see from the stats, Palmer isn’t much of a running threat.

“When you’re down that much, you’re not going to throw a bunch of check-downs and walk off the field”, Palmer said. There have been signal-callers – like Steve Young, Fran Tarkenton and Steve McNair – who ran out of necessity, and others, like Seattle’s Russell Wilson, who took it further with some designed runs. “But give credit to Ron and his football team”. The last two of those came against teams that entered the game with the NFL’s Most Valuable Player, the Raiders’ Rich Gannon against the Bucs and Denver’s Manning against the Seahawks. “It’s the championship. Be aware of it and have the proper shoes”. “Just some normal bumps and bruises”.

The Panthers capitalized quickly. His 16.8 yards per catch are his best, as well. Neither could Peterson, David Johnson or any other Cardinal who has Pro Bowl-caliber ability.

“We’ve just got to find ways to complete a full game of football”, Newton said. “It’s a tough challenge this week”.

At the Westgate, Kornegay said he would post some 400 different prop bets later this week for bettors to take a shot at.

Carolina has more balance than Denver and an unparalleled playmaker in Newton, and is stacked defensively with game-changers on all three levels (defensive tackle Kawann Short, middle linebacker Luke Kuechly and cornerback Josh Norman). “But, he’s a great pass defense guy”. On the next play, Panthers safety Kurt Coleman intercepted Carson Palmer in the end zone and the Cardinals never threatened again. The Broncos defeated the Patriots 20-18 to advance to the Super Bowl.

Newton has always had the talents, but has completely elevated his game and maturity in the past two plus seasons, and the Panthers record has followed suit.

Those Raiders and Broncos offenses were as formidable as the one Carolina brings in this season but ran into defensive teams that left them broken and beaten by halftime.

Those two facts alone should be the leading story of the weekend, but we have Brady/Manning in the matinee (neither of which won a Heisman).