Peyton is a happy man as the first starting QB to win Super Bowls with two teams, Indianapolis in 2007 and the Broncos in 2016. “But this time around, the Broncos have so many players from this year’s Super Bowl team who are scheduled to be unrestricted free agents – such as linebacker Von Miller, defensive end Malik Jackson, linebacker Danny Trevathan, safety David Bruton Jr. and running back Ronnie Hillman – they will spend most of their time and available cash looking inward”.
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“We’ve had so many pressure games”, he said, “When you think about it, we just broke the record of the ’78 Oilers, who had the most wins of seven points or less”.
Elway said there is no deadline on Manning’s decision.
“There is no deadline”.
Newton said he believes things were “blown out of proportion” by the media.
Newton looked like a petulant child who didn’t get his way after the game and did nothing on Tuesday to make his detractors think any better of him. “There is no timeline for this”.
Fowler caught just 16 passes from Manning this season, but his final grab from the future Hall of Famer will be one to remember.
The Broncos general manager, however, won’t have much time to celebrate.
As Newton talked, teammates walked behind the media assembled and shouted, “We love you, Cam”.
Pat Henderson and Melanie Novak usually cheer together at the stadium, where they met at a Broncos game a decade ago in a part of the stands they proudly described as the rowdy south section. I’m glad I didn’t have to play them….
That kiss of the Papa John’s guy on the field just moments after the game was done was a shabby bit of commercialism, unseemly by the standards that Manning himself established over 18 years in the league. I’ve seen numerous quarterbacks throw interceptions and their effort afterwards and they don’t go. “It’s hard to say that they’re going to be that, but they’re in the argument, which is a (great) compliment to them”. “The decisions made around here – while not always easy, while not always popular – have gotten us to this point”, Olsen said. “Better than anybody’s ever done it”.
Word-of-mouth advertising from Peyton Manning was more valuable than any of the millions of dollars paid out by other companies for their mere 30 seconds of fame, according to brand and marketing experts.
The fun and frivolity will soon give way to fretting over how to do this all over again.
Losing the Super Bowl is tough for any football player that is lucky enough to make it that far.
“That’s been the story of our lives”, receiver Emmanuel Sanders shrugged. They were eating up the Panthers QB Cam Newton on such a regular basis, I coined the nickname “fig Newton” for him after I received several texts from one of my buddies seated on press row asking me the question; “has the Carolina O-line given up on protecting “Cam-Cam?”
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Miller overcame adversity to his place now, and he’s hopefully going to be a huge player for years to come. “Back-to-back, right?!”
