And they were in contention for home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs until losing at home in a blowout to the Seahawks in the regular-season finale to finish with the NFC’s No. 2 seed behind Carolina.
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The NFC champion will be decided in tonight’s Arizona Cardinals vs Carolina Panthers game played in snowy Charlotte, North Carolina.
The 49 points were the most by the winning team in an NFC title game.
By no means was he a one-man show. The Panthers defense held one of the best offenses in football to just 15 points, 287 yards, and seven turnovers as Carson Palmer struggled mightily (he had six of the team’s turnovers).
The last win for the Broncos was 17 years ago in Super Bowl XXXIII when John Elway was still the team’s quarterback rather than an executive. “We came out here and fought our tails off and we did what a lot of people said we couldn’t do”. It’s not over yet.
“They jumped out early and got on top of us”.
“I’ve really tried to take it one week at a time all season long, through the injuries and all the things that have gone on, ” Manning said.
The Denver Broncos will play the Carolina Panthers in the Super Bowl in Santa Clara, Calif., on February 7.
That would be against Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos in two weeks. He completed 27 of 38 passes with one touchdown in a 36-14 win at Bank of of America during Newton’s second season.
“He said (he was going to play) with the same type of sincerity he said to me when he told me he was coming back from the third ACL”, Rivera said. “So we are excited about that possibility”. Newton, for his part, converted those opportunities into four touchdowns – two through the air and two rushing scores.
Ginn caught two passes for 52 yards and set up his own electrifying 22-yard touchdown run with a nifty 32-yard punt return. The fifth-year coach said he won’t have any more information on his status until after the meeting.
His shaky playoff form continued against the Panthers as the Cardinals fell behind 17-0 in the first quarter and their offense devolved into a string of miscues.
Newton came out sharp on the opening drive, targeting five different receivers, connecting with four of them.
GINNED UP: Ted Ginn Jr. spent a very unproductive 2014 with the Cardinals, who quickly released him after that season. Palmer cannot force any throws like he did countless times last week and needs to take care of the ball, especially in the red zone. Palmer. A week after he made questionable throws against the Packers and it was revealed that he scripted safe plays early, Palmer didn’t look any better. The Cardinals gave him $9.75 million and he used a little of that to thank them with a permanent mark on his body. Brown joked when asked about the play by Omnisport.
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Panthers Pro Bowl linebacker Thomas Davis confirmed after the game he broke his arm in the second half. The MVP comes into this match off a fairly ordinary performance in the divisional round, and he’ll be looking for a huge game to push his side into their second Super Bowl.
