Because Tuesday was parade day and a million fans – according to an estimate from the city’s mayor – showed up to cheer on the Super Bowl champions after beating Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers 24-10 on Sunday. Clearly hearing the Denver players giving their postgame celebratory accounts was lost in the Newton moment; you develop an ability to block out non-essential background noise when you’re trying to hear one particular interview.
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If you describe a man without boundaries, that man would be Von Miller. The Broncos defense sacked Newton a total of seven times.
Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton on Tuesday defended his sulky post-Super Bowl press conference display, justifying his behavior on the grounds he was a “sore loser”. Linebacker Danny Trevathan and defensive lineman Malik Jackson – both coming off value-inflating Super Bowl performances – are set to become unrestricted free agents and would instantly upgrade the Giants’ defensive roster.
If not for five quick turnovers in the first three and a half quarters of that game – a pair of fumbles by a running back and a wide receiver, and a fumble and two interceptions by Osweiler – Manning may never have returned to the field at all. “It’s tough, it’s hard”, said Faulk, whose Rams fell to the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVI.
Let’s not say yes, because we’re all going to need something to argue about this offseason. This year, it was truly a team effort.
Officials won’t give specific turnout predictions, but the last time Denver won the Super Bowl, the downtown party drew an estimated 375,000 people. You were hurt and disappointed because, for the first time in life on a big stage, things didn’t turn out the way you had hoped.
Perhaps it’s with the benefit of hindsight, but Knapp says now he always believed Manning would eventually wind up back in the Broncos’ huddle this year. He helped build this defense and revamp it from the destruction that was Super Bowl XLVIII, 43-8.
I feel for every Panthers fan. However, the old cliché of “numbers don’t lie” are relevant in this case. It wasn’t nothing special that they did. Perhaps that’s because Manning’s boss, general manager John Elway, understands the internal struggle Manning may be dealing with better than most. There will be some major decisions to come in the off-season for the Broncos.
Of course, this was not going to happen, but the way the Miller and Co.
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But under Kubiak, the Broncos – sometimes ugly, sometimes dominant, but always “grinding, ” as the coach put it – went 12-4, earned the No. 1 seed in the AFC and rode a historic defense to the franchise’s third Super Bowl win.
