The Carolina Panthers are on their way to Super Bowl 50 following a dominating 49-15 win over the Cardinals in Sunday’s NFC championship game.
Newton tossed another touchdown pass to seal the game with Mike Tolbert making a two-point conversion, before a Luke Kuechly interception led to another touchdown for the Panthers, with the final score ending 49-15 in the Panthers’ favour.
Carolina advances to Super Bowl 50, where it will face … But one of those losses in all white was the Super Bowl following the 2003 season. The Panthers ultimately ran the clock down and went into halftime up 24-7. They are No. 1 in yards given up and No. 1 in passing yards allowed.
It was a tale of two defenses – and two very divergent outcomes – in the NFL’s conference championship games Sunday. The Panthers boast a big time offensive attack, featuring Cam Newton, the league’s likely runaway most valuable player. “You know what I’m saying, and I think those collard greens are brewing right now, you can smell it from a mile away”.
Last year, the Panthers were 3-8-1 before finishing with a four-game winning streak to win a weak NFC South Division.
There is no obvious answer on how to stop Cam Newton, and the Panthers hope to ride their incredible quarterback to a SuperBowl victory and well into the future.
Added wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery: “Everyone can try to find something when they doubt us, but we just try to go out there and put our ball on display”. But Ginn’s biggest prize was a trip to the Super Bowl with the Panthers while his former team headed back home. He helped the Broncos reach the Super Bowl in 2013 and won four straight AFC West titles, but parted ways with the team following the 2014 season. And thanks to his defense, that will be Manning – the 39-year-old quarterback who was supposed to be on his way to a retirement party – and not Tom Brady playing in the Super Bowl two weeks from now. However, after watching the Panthers destroy the Arizona Cardinals in the fashion that they did, and seeing an actual elite defense that the Denver Broncos have, the Rams, in reality, aren’t even that close.