The Seattle Seahawks know all too well after losing a divisional playoff game, 31-24, Sunday at Bank of America Stadium. “We have been known to take our foot off the throttle and we have to find that killer instinct”.
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Those players, with the exception of Graham, all go back to 2012 with Carroll’s and the Seahawks’ first significant success.
“That’s what this game is going to teach us”, Kuechly told the Associated Press.
“I let things work out the way that they work out”, Rawls said.
“It’s interesting”, said head coach Ron Rivera, who’s in his fifth year with the Panthers. “You have to learn to continue to attack”. We did some really good things.
Had tight end Greg Olsen double-covered. “You can not give up touchdowns when you play against teams like that”.
“You keep building, keep growing”. You don’t want to do anything silly either. You can get lucky if you have some of the pieces in place and sometimes it takes longer. “So it’s a fine line between keeping aggression and tempo”.
Lynch turns 30 in April and missed nine regular-season games due to a number of injuries. He also was the leading rusher for the Seahawks with 32 yards on the ground. The late-season rest might pay off for Stewart as the Panthers move deeper into the playoffs. He also battled an abdominal injury that led to him having surgery in November.
“Most certainly”, Cotchery said.
We’re nearly there. Four teams left.
Newton earned All-Pro this season, becoming the first quarterback in National Football League history to throw for 35 touchdown passes and run for 10 TDs.
“We misfired early on that first big run”, Seattle coach Pete Carroll said.
“Definitely adds a chip to our shoulder, and you know, we’re not a team that needs a chip on our shoulder”. In the receiving end, Jonathan Stewart rushed for 106 yards and two touchdowns in 19 attempts.
On defense, defensive tackle Kawann Short will need to have two and maybe sometimes three Cardinals on him all day. He worked hard to get back and made it back to play. “Those guys really get the credit, I was just able to get under and catch it”. Before their win over the Seahawks, the Panthers recorded a wild-card win over Arizona last season, a wild-card win over Dallas in their march to the 2004 Super Bowl and another wild-card win over the Cowboys in 1996, the team’s second year in existence.
AP Sports Writer Aaron Beard contributed to this report.
There won’t be a third straight trip to the Super Bowl for the Seahawks. “We’ll get better at that”, Baldwin said. Pittsburgh’s defence finished the season playing at a much higher level than what they were playing at earlier in the season.
Carolina, which scored an NFL-best 500 points this season, stormed into the lead thanks to Stewart.
Fitzgerald had eight catches for 176 yards and a touchdown in the win over the Packers, but Carson Palmer struggled most of the game with inaccurate passes.
Easier said than executed. “But the experience I have, I’ve learned from a lot of opportunities and situations”. But you’ve got to be locked in the whole game. “There is no other thought”.
More to the point, he was asked if the Seahawks are still a team on the rise or are they yesterday’s men?
“In the second half, we had to go for it”, Wilson said. “We had a great plan coming in”.
It is Carolina’s fourth appearance in the NFC title game, but first since 2005.
The top-seeded Panthers host the Arizona Cardinals (14-3) on Sunday.
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“I don’t know how that’s going to go”, Carroll said of Lynch, via the Seattle Times’ Bob Condotta. “But shoot, we won those football games, and look who we played against”.
