Passage of time.
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Passage of time.
Manning had four neck surgeries.
Brady has to carry Belichick on his shoulders when they're alone.
Leads to worse passage of ball.
It wasn't his arm that looked bad, he had plenty of zip like the strike down the seam late to gronk, but yeah the o-line is an absolute disgrace.
Honestly people might think I'm crazy, but they should've pulled cannon, flipped vollmer back to RT and then patchworked at LT, or toss cannon there and see if his toe was able to do any better. At the very least you'll have one effective tackle or give him a chance to be effective.
elrechazado
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Ducks all day. His arm is dead. Kraft and his horrible two tone shirts and belichek and team hoodie are doomed. Dooooooomed
DeaconKnowledge
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Both defenses were playing a similar approach - make the QB beat you with his arm.
Dragon told someone to kill themselves but that's about it nothing too crazy
sure, but one defense was able to generate consistent pressure with 3 man fronts.
Duxxy3
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It's all about pressure.
Dragon got got
Yes, this is true but that's taking away from Panthers and Broncos greatness.
CardsGAF: we'll get em next year. Hats off to the team for playing hard all the way through and reaching this point. This stings really really bad but you can't win them all for reasons I obviously won't get into.
Let's not even mention them or any team that did not make it to the Super Bowl.
Speaking of making it to the Super Bowl...
Hats off to the Carolina Panthers. They played a solid game and Cam Newton busted out his Nemesis costume when they needed him to. I love the fact that Ted Ginn Jr. contributed it to a team reaching the Super Bowl. He comes from a really rough place in city that's hard to make it out of. Salute to the Glenville alum for making the city proud again.
Guys, we're in for a damn good time as Cam Newton gets to TALK ALL THE SHIT IN THE WORLD DURING TIME BEFORE THIS GAME.
WHERE'S NOLAN NAWROCKI????????????????
Can PanthersGAF do me a favor and find Nolan's pre draft assessment filled with more code words than an RNC reaction speech to the ACA?
Dragon got emotional and got himself banned.
General_Zod
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Manning did what he needed to do. I think it will be way tougher in the super bowl as Carolina are way better than the pats but any given Sunday and all
DeaconKnowledge
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True, but I don't feel they were getting there any faster than any other team that faced the Pats this season. They've carved up tons of Dime defenses because none of those guys managed to mess with the receivers timing.
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Grover Cleveland
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Getts may be the GOAT for getting this team from cap hell to Super Bowl in 3 years.
But all the credit in the world has to go to Hurney too.
Cam
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Luke
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Captain Kalil
The very core of this team, all brought in Marty.
But all the credit in the world has to go to Hurney too.
Cam
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Luke
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Captain Kalil
The very core of this team, all brought in Marty.
General_Zod
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Cam is surly the MVP I mean who else could it be
Thx. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy...
We'll have to look at the stats, but it seemed to me like he was getting pushed forward into the pocket way quicker than he had in any other game this season. Their defensive ends were torching the tackles.
no they were definitely getting there as quick as I've seen it all year. To be fair the final few games were somewhat similar, but cannon/fleming had a few plays where they couldn't even get a finger on Miller, no exageration.
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Truth.com. Von Miller was teleporting on some plays.
DeaconKnowledge
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I feel like Brady was getting jittery, sure. He took a few early hits due to bad line play and that put his head on a swivel all game.
All i'm saying is that was facilitated more on the back end. Haven't seen Brady Pat..pat..pat..pat.....pat the football like that in a long time.
Grover Cleveland
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Thomas Davis has a broken arm.
If he says he'll play, I believe it. Panthers have experience not playing with the compliment of LB (Luke missed a month and Shaq Thompson was out for a while after the first Seattle game) so if AJ Klein has to go, it's not the end of the world.
If he says he'll play, I believe it. Panthers have experience not playing with the compliment of LB (Luke missed a month and Shaq Thompson was out for a while after the first Seattle game) so if AJ Klein has to go, it's not the end of the world.
friskykillface
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Brady got hurried up a ton lol
Was also SHOOK from getting hit X thinking of getting hit
Deep ball is shit but he can still pass
Spend money for an O line Kraft you dummy
Was also SHOOK from getting hit X thinking of getting hit
Deep ball is shit but he can still pass
Spend money for an O line Kraft you dummy
Do people not know all the MVP votes are cast before the first playoff game is played? He was MVP 3 weeks ago....
Duxxy3
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Nah, this was the fastest to Brady this season.
Not having any semblance of a running game (you can blame that on scheme, talent or injuries (whatever you like)) obviously did not help them. It's one of the many things the offense needs to take a look at in the off season.
joel mchale is terrible lmao
General_Zod
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Stranger things have happened tho
I almost shut it off when I saw his name in the credits!!!!!!
his line reading is a joke
It was a huge mistake bringing this back.
trust me I agree he got jittery as fuck. If they had sustained a drive or 2 earlier it owuldn't have gotten to him as much, but the playcalling and some crazy bad tackle play out of cannon/vollmer really took their confidence.
I also think edelmans foot may have factored, I could be wrong, but I was never sold on him being 100%. David Chao the sports doctor on twitter was saying the metal bars in the shoes used for Jones fracture patients sap a lot of burst/explosiveness. He looked good last week, but Talib/Harris are a different story. On top of that Lafell has regressed to carolina level of bad.
I'm shocked that it came down to the final play, and I'll give some credit to brady for finally nutting up at the end, but he definitely deserves a lot of blame. The majority would lie on the o-line for me though, and Josh McDaniels straight up mind boggling play calling.
He had better delivery in those video game awards.
Thankfully it'll be over in a few weeks and really dead after that. Fox can nostalgiagrab something else after.
Alligatorjandro
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Denvers offense is going to have to play a lot better against Carolina. I'm surprised at how the pats pretty much shut down their running game considering the last time they played.
I wasn't surprised. They only ran it the first game when Hightower/Collins were both out.
DeaconKnowledge
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Pats had 9 man boxes all night they better have shut down the run game.
was going to say this. They clearly beefed up to stop the run and dared manning to throw, and to his credit he did early. The coaching just was so sure of its plan and they failed to adapt until it was too late.
Way to many people counting the Broncos out. Carolina should win but maybe they go into the game overly confident.
I know this for sure, the Broncos and that whole team will be the underdogs and they'll have a chip on their shoulders.
Pressure will be on the Panthers and not the Broncos.
Duxxy3
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I'd put Lafell at the top of the cut list. I don't expect to see Scott Chandler or Mayo back either. Mayo should probably retire and join the coaching staff (it would be immediate).
Alligatorjandro
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I don't think Lafell ever recovered from his foot injury. He was so reliable last year.
I still think they should cut him, they need more downfield speed at WR.
Mayo is definitely cap casualty, his number is massive. DA will need another restructure if he's going to stay too. Lafell is definitely in danger of losing his job but....
yeah he just was not the same person this year, his routes and timing were a disaster from pretty much day 1. Maybe if he has a full training camp he can get back into the swing of things, if not they'll have to bring in somebody else.
Alligatorjandro
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Yeah they need to get some big speedy receivers. Even if Brady can't throw deep too well get them for the next guy.
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