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MORNING MINUTE: How the Broncos offense can help Trevor Siemian

The University of Huddersfield side are a well-established American football team in the British University and College Sport (BUCS) leagues – having competed in the Yorkshire 1A league past year against the likes of Leeds Beckett, Sheffield University and the University of Central Lancashire – and the side are keen on bringing in new faces to the sport. He has been more vocal as a leader on and off the field.

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As a running quarterback, you get the best of both worlds.

And in our late game, two Super Bowl favourites meet in Arizona as the Cardinals host the New England Patriots. Winning the turnover battle again in this game could be the difference between winning and losing what could be a tight game.

He won’t have to do it alone. Both teams will look a lot different from when they last met, but they are both expected to be major contenders in their respective conferences. You can’t change what happened in Super Bowl 50, but you can use that loss as motivation to set the tone for this season. If I’m the Panthers, though, I am just as anxious about DeMarcus Ware. “As players, going into my sixth year, we have to do better”. “I think we have a chance, as I’ve talked about, that we have a chance to be better offensively with a good balanced attack and have [Siemian] come in, play well and do the things that he can do”. “It’s not a rematch”, Newton said.

“Lachlan Edwards may only be a punter, but he’s going to be a damn good one in the NFL”, New Jersey’s Star-Ledger told readers last week. Newton shares numerous same feelings about Miller. “But not focusing everything on 58 (Miller’s number), because they have a very talented defensive line as a whole. That day it all snowballed on us and we never really got much going”. “We can’t let those guys dictate to us”. All the while he chronicles how, starting with the arrival of Auburn’s best QB to date, Carolina transformed from inconsistent bottom dweller to one of the top teams in the league. They have the Chiefs ranked No. 12 behind Oakland AND Denver.

Kuechly is a rangy defender that can come up and stop the run or drop back into pass coverage. “At the same time, they are who they are”. The Panthers would rather stretch the field on offense than dink and dunk.

Last season he tied the Giants’ franchise record of 33 punts inside the 20-yard line and in the just finished pre-season topped all punters by averaging 47.3 yards a punt. What makes Newton truly risky on the field, is in the red-zone and short yardage downs. On offense, Newton retains nearly all the pieces that made them one of the top scoring offenses in the league a year ago. And his top tailback, Jonathan Stewart, is hard to take down. Newton can also run the ball effectively to make the opposing teams in defending the Panthers.

However, the man known for his up-tempo offense has a challenge to engineer a successful season for a young 49ers team that appears stronger on defense. Newton said Carolina wants the running game to be even more effective this season. Denver has sold out 357 straight home games. We’ll find out soon enough, though, just how good these teams will be. I think we got plenty of reps.

It will be a challenge.

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The Panthers will travel 19,476 miles during the 2016 regular season (11,568 last season) with four games on West Coast (Denver, Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle). Newton was the MVP of the National Football League last season, but played very poorly against the Broncos defense during the Super Bowl. “But the truth of the matter is, we have to live in the now and that’s 2016.’ I like to say this is the most important game we’ll play because this is the one we’re about to play”. “You could have a Dorito on your shoulder for all we care”, said Denver safety T.J. Ward.

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