The Broncos jumped out to an early lead and held it for the duration, defeating the Patriots 20-18 to claim the AFC Championship and a spot in Super Bowl 50 against the victor of Sunday’s NFC Championship Game between the Panthers and Cardinals.
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The Panthers’ Kuechly might be the NFL’s best linebacker in pass coverage since Tampa Bay Hall of Famer Derrick Brooks.
Defensive tackle Kawann Short said if anyone can make it back it would be Davis. I was coming off a national championship (at Auburn) coming to a place that wasn’t necessarily accustomed to having that kind of season, but now we’re in the same type of situation.
The Panthers played against Manning thee times when he was with Indianapolis and won two of those games. “Everybody has different roads”.
That’s far above past Super Bowl ticket prices immediately following the conference championship games. Were not finished, Newton said.
“We’ve been dreaming about this moment since Day 1”. Meanwhile, it is the second trip to the big game for Carolina, which lost to New England 12 years ago…. “I’ve been playing football too long for me to get nervous”. They actually scored more points on the road than they did at home in 2015, and they outscored their opponents by an NFL-best 112 points in their road contests – an average of 14 points per game.
Their 262 points on the road not only established a franchise single-season record, but led the NFL. It’ll be cold at Bank of America Stadium on Sunday night, but that hasn’t bothered the Cardinals, either, as evidenced by late-season victories at Seattle and Philadelphia. The only other teams to accomplish that were Minnesota in 1988 and Oakland in 1968. Christian Ponder did not play a snap of NFL football this season but I’m not going to bash Christian Ponder. “We’re not looking forward to anything”, receiver Michael Floyd said. Now, they say hindsight is 20/20 but these experts might need a vision check after this analysis. The amount of nerves or intensity for each time could play a huge factor.
Davis said after the game Sunday he planned to play in the Super Bowl.
Still, there’s something to be said for a team, especially a team out West, that can still maintain its level of performance in a hostile environment.
“This is as low as you can feel, ” Palmer said in a hushed tone. Unfortunately, they’re facing the top seed in the conference and so will have to travel to face to the Panthers, but the Cardinals are in great shape.
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Carolina’s last home loss was November 16, 2014. “We know what’s ahead of us”. Our crowd was unbelievable, the craziest I’d ever seen it because that was our first time.
“I was telling some younger guys, ‘Man, if you eat Burger King every Tuesday, go do it, ‘” Cardinals cornerback Jerraud Powers said. “Just a lot of unorthodox things, and we just weren’t very sound in our defense today”.
At the South Point sports book, bettors stood 10 deep in front of nine betting windows as the NFC title game ended. “We’re going to be excited”. “You put so much in and you come in here with such high expectations, and to leave the way we’re leaving just hurts”.
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Still, they entered the playoffs as maybe the most complete team in the league statistically.
