Peyton Manning has stoked speculation about his retirement after being caught on film telling New England Patriots boss Bill Belichick that Sunday’s AFC Championship game could be his “last rodeo”, reports said Tuesday.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) – Nothing but compliments for Cam Newton after completely bashing Tom Brady.
It’s a simple reason: “We’ve had Super Bowl success in our white uniforms”, said John Elway, who was the Broncos’ QB in back-to-back Super Bowl wins in the 1990s and is now their executive VP and general manager.
Denver’s offense had short-field scoring drives of 16 and 23 yards against New England. Only a late flurry after the Broncos lost both starting safeties to injuries kept Brady’s numbers respectable. We had a chance at the end. The Broncos defeated the Patriots 20-18 to advance to the Super Bowl.
Now, the Broncos (14-4) are pulling out the respect card, especially when it comes to Newton.
Outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware heaped plenty of praise on Newton, too.
The five-time MVP’s season ends February 7 in the Super Bowl against Carolina. “Some of my experiences in coaching, you get to certain experiences like the playoffs, and sometimes you get a little bit of panic”.
Von Miller’s monster performance led the way for a dominant defense that hit Brady 23 times and forced him into 29 incompletions, two fourth-down flops and two costly interceptions, one of them on a failed 2-point try that would have tied it with 12 seconds left. Talk about redemption! We’ll have to wait two more weeks to see if that Kubiak/Phillips coaching duo will get their full measure of redemption with a Super Bowl victory. He’s previously said that immediately following a season is not the time to make snap judgments of any kind. I was in college, I just spent all of the college football season watching this cocky, arrogant, and down right self absorbed quarterback win the National Championship. But for those of you looking for something to believe in this Super Bowl season, why not take a leap and embrace Newton?
Standing in their way is Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers (17-1), who throttled the, Arizona Cardinals 49-15 to reach their first Super Bowl.
“Santa Clara got the super bowl”, she said. What I didn’t understand back in 2011 was this kid was a building block to something bigger then I could imagine. He can sit in the pocket and throw it, and then he can run, run wide out. It was an extra point that you actually had to execute and it was executed by players who were not specialists, they were position players. “He’s definitely a unique player”.
You see, while he was in Baltimore last season, the Ravens came up with a scheme to fool the Steelers in the playoffs.
I’ll be the first to admit that during the run-up to the 2005 NFL Draft, I was all about the Dallas Cowboys selecting University of Maryland pass-rusher Shawne Merriman.
The Broncos first-year head coach wouldn’t mind a repeat performance.
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“It was a hard decision but I did what I thought was right for us”, Rivera said. “It’s nice to have a couple of weeks”.
