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No, no, when Seattle did it it was all drills and schemes and hard work!The Panthers division is full of crap teams so their scoring numbers are scewed somewhat. One thing about Carolina is that they are a crappy second half team. If Denver gets lucky and jumps up early on the Panthers I believe they will have an easier time keeping the lead than the other way around. If Olsen and Ginn hit deep early in the game it could be a hard row to hoe for Denver to catch up. I think Denver's Defense will contain the Panther's run attack and even probably force a fumble or two. Stewart is good but Seattle had him completely covered after our D put on the right cleats in the Divisional round of the playoffs.
One thing is that Newton DOES take unnecessary chances. All those flips and his running style presents the possibility of an injury. He may THINK he is super man but at 6' 5" and 250 he is a BIG target. I would LOVE to see Von Miller do a legal hit on Newton and break his fucking neck.
Even as old as Manning is he is at least twice as intelligent as Newton.
Manning's cunning or Newton's athleticism? It should be a close game and depend on where the ball bounces.
I don't like either team but Newton has had a habit of screwing the pooch in important games in the past.
If Manning can keep from throwing ints I like Denver. If he gets rattled and gives the ball away the Panthers will win. THAT's how they got their good record was recovering fumbles and getting ints last season.
Crappy second half team, so crappy they went 17-1. Not sure how that is crappy.
The Panthers were incredibly lucky getting something like a plus 20 in recovered turnovers fumbles ...tipped ints..etc. That had a lot if not most of the reason they won that many games last season. The ball consistently just bounced their way. Good for them! Sometimes that funny shaped ball just seems to favor one team over the others. In Seattle's run to their SB win they had almost exactly the same plus 20. That had a lot to do with the Hawks success.
I agree, Seattle was extremely lucky.
At least it wasn't because of cheating. Every team that makes it to the Super Bowl has lady luck smiling down on them. Russell Wilson would probably tell you that his god has it written in some plan somewhere. I tend to believe that as good as athletes can be that damned ball just bounces crazy and that accounts for many of the turnovers that lead to short field possessions and frequently scores. Not to mention the demoralization suffered by the team that loses the ball.
I wonder sometimes how Denver would have played if Manning hadn't had that horrible snap to start SB 48.