“My role has been different and my contributions are different”, Manning said. “It hasn’t been easy, been a lot of different people stepping up at different times… but everybody did their part and it truly was a team win”.
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Manning, who at 39 will replace Broncos legend John Elway as the oldest quarterback to play in a Super Bowl, will now go head to head with 26-year-old Newton in a battle of the old versus the new generations. For it to come to fruition is great. “… So, I was just making sure I was ready to make a tackle”.
The biggest single-day event in the world deserves a super quarterback matchup, and that’s exactly what we have in Super Bowl 50.
As captured on NFL Total Access on NFL Network it appears Manning told Belichick “this could be my last rodeo”.
“We’ll turn the page here and move on”, Belichick added.
This, season, however, was the worst of Manning’s career. “When you’re not able to contribute because you can’t participate, you try to be patient and work yourself back into position to be available to participate and to try to make a contribution”.
Denver Broncos outside linebacker Von Miller (58) is congratulated by his teammates after a play during the second half of the NFL football AFC Championship game between the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots, Sund…
I’ve heard elsewhere that this is a “meeting of the two best teams in the National Football League”, but forgive me if I refuse to believe that the Broncos are better than the Chiefs.
The game was viewed in 207,000 households, topping the 186,000 households that the Steeler-Bronco game attracted last week. Brady heaved it deep and found Gronk – in double-coverage – who reeled it in at the Denver 10. Head coach Bruce Arians put it this way: “We didn’t play well enough [and] our best players especially didn’t play well enough”. We’ve grinded. Chris, Wolfe and I, we all wanted to get back.
There was quite a bit of second-guessing Bill Belichick after Sunday’s AFC Championship, with some wondering why he didn’t kick field goals instead of going for it on fourth down twice in the fourth quarter.
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At Charlotte, the Panthers forced seven Arizona turnovers and Newton completed 19 of 28 passes for 335 yards. The Panthers didn’t lose until the penultimate game of the season and have recorded two convincing wins in the postseason. If (Bucs receiver) Bert Emanuel’s catch isn’t a catch for the first time before or afterward (in the 1999 NFC title game), the only time in history it wasn’t a catch, maybe we win one here in Tampa.
