The idea that the Arizona Cardinals’ season could end Sunday night in Charlotte was an understood possibility leading into the game.
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“Yeah, we are going to the Super Bowl“.
Who would’ve thought the most ugly and uninteresting playoff meeting from a year ago could evolve into one of the most highly-anticipated matchups of the entire season.
Cam Newton has been outstanding this season for the Panthers.
Carolina’s defence did the rest, most notably making Palmer uncomfortable in the pocket and turning Larry Fitzgerald, the star of last week’s overtime victory against Green Bay, into a virtual non-entity. “I’ll pick the Cardinals” 27-23. “I think they’re the best team in football”. Carolina led the National Football League with an average of 31.2 points per game. Luke Kuechly and the Panthers are coming off a victory over the Seattle Seahawks by a 31-24 final score.
The quarterbacks starting in the NFC Conference Championship game don’t have the storied history of Tom Brady and Peyton Manning in today’s AFC Championship game.
Despite a 17-7 lead, the Carolina Panthers may come out as losers after the first half against the Arizona Cardinals Sunday. In his five seasons in the NFL, Newton has played in two games where the temperature at kickoff was less than 40.
The dual-threat Cam Newton vs. the classic pocket passer Carson Palmer.
Head coach Bruce Arians believes the nervousness that Palmer and the Cardinals felt was about getting a postseason win, and now that they have achieved that, the quarterback will return to his usual high standard.
Those Raiders and Broncos offenses were as formidable as the one Carolina brings in this season but ran into defensive teams that left them broken and beaten by halftime.
After an early field goal gave the Panthers a 3-0 lead, Ted Ginn Jr was the first player to find the endzone on a well-worked 22-yard reverse that showcased the many different threats of the Carolina ground game. On the other side of the ball, Arizona kept Aaron Rodgers in check apart from two Hail Mary completions to Jeff Janis.
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“I hope it reaches them and they know that they have support and love and kids in the 4th grade sitting in class thinking about them and wishing them well!” The two legendary quarterbacks will go head-to-head, without ever being on the field at the same time, as Brady looks to win his second straight Super Bowl and Manning looks to make it back to the big dance with a chance to do what John Elway did and ride off into the sunset a champion. The tempo was slow and I was happy to even see the Panthers put up 21 points. Not only did he miss plays that were there to be made for the Cardinals, he threw some passes that could have been intercepted.
