Newton, Panthers rout Cardinals, 49-15 for NFC title

What, wrong game? The Broncos are likely to find a completely different opponent from the wounded group of wildebeests that the New England Patriots imitated on Sunday in the AFC Championship Game.

“My understanding is if everything goes well it is something he can mostly certainly play with”, Panthers coach Ron Rivera said Monday.

On Sunday, February 7, the top seeds from both the NFC and the AFC will face off in Super Bowl 50 – at Levi’s Stadium for Super Bowl 50 – with the chance at immortality on the line. He’s leaving behind his camera.

Despite securing a spot in Super Bowl 50 after manhandling the Arizona Cardinals 49-15 in Sunday’s NFC Championship Game, not everything went the Carolina Panthers’ way. “We are trying to finish this thing off”.

The Panthers showed why they have been the NFL’s best team all season, but the Cardinals did have a sequence in the second quarter that might’ve changed the course of the game – but they couldn’t stop making mistakes.

For Ginn, a player who did not live up to expectations in Miami, San Francisco or Arizona, he’s been far more than advertised for the Panthers.

Cam Newton threw for two touchdowns and ran for two others, and Carolina’s big-play defence stifled Arizona’s top-ranked offence.

At the South Point sports book, bettors stood 10 deep in front of nine betting windows as the NFC title game ended.

Fitzgerald was not the usual dominant, sure-handed WR many are used to seeing in a blowout loss against the Panthers. Denver’s Peyton Manning became the fourth player with 40 or more touchdown passes in National Football League playoff history, joining Tom Brady, Joe Montana and Brett Favre.

Kurt Coleman: He led the team in interceptions in the regular season and got two more on Sunday.

One of his biggest helpers was Ted Ginn Jr., who was dumped by the Cardinals after last season.

But he had only 14 catches for 190 yards and his only touchdown was on a punt return.

The Cardinals were thrashed 49-15 in the NFC Championship Game in Charlotte North Carolina, dashing their hopes of reaching the Super Bowl in February.

When the Panthers got the ball back, they chewed up another four minutes before Newton’s 12-yard touchdown run and built the lead to 34-7.

Arians didn’t use the delay as an excuse for the 17-0 deficit in which the Cardinals found themselves in the first quarter, but he made it clear that he found the development frustrating. Another botched tackle, this one at the Carolina 47 by Rashad Johnson, left Brown with nothing but unprotected turf.

Coleman, who is listed at 5 feet 11 and 200 pounds, racked up 37 tackles, six pass deflections and a team-high three interceptions, despite playing only 396 of 1,086 possible defensive snaps in 2014.

On Arizona’s first play after a Peterson muffed punt, Palmer was sacked by Charles Johnson and fumbled.

Watching Carson Palmer throw the football over the past couple of weeks, one might wonder if something was bothering him.

Certainly that applies to quarterback Carson Palmer, who turned the ball over six times – four picks and two fumbles lost. Peterson somehwat atoned for the error by returning an interception 72 yards right before intermission, but Palmer was picked off in the end zone on the next play and No. 2 Arizona never threatened again.