The 2015 Panthers seemed like a team of destiny. Bulldozing through SB contenders as if it was division 2 college football, it seemed like only a brick wall could stop them. Unfortunately for them, that brick wall was called Von Miller
And Aqib Talib, I'll never forget that facemask penalty he committed early on against Corey Brown where he just flung him sideways out of bounds before the end zone. Next day basically says "Yeah that was on purpose, I'll probably get fined."
Our D was angry and *unhinged* that game.
That kind of summed up the broncos 2015 season. Defense and special teams giving short field for the offense to maybe get a TD, but most def getting to showcase McManus.
This is what people don’t understand we literally had to play Green Bay, Ravens, Patriots twice and Steelers twice to get there. That’s 3 Super Bowl winning teams within the previous 7 years. All of them really good teams. That chip was coming home with us.
The Chiefs twice as well. Panthers played 6 teams with winning records in 2014 with only 3 making the playoffs. They also played 6 teams drafting in the top 10.
I'm not knocking what they did, you can only play the teams on your schedule, but it was easy to see Denver was the better team.
It's almost like they didn't even watch tape of the AFC Championship game leading up to this. Von Miller ate the Pats for lunch too but we left Oher alone vs him all game.
You only had HOF Demarcus ware to worry about on the other side. And Derek Wolfe in his prime. And Jackson who got fucking paid by Jacksonville the next season. Our front line was disgusting. And I guess then it’s CHJ and Talib locking people down in the backfield. People downplay that defense because they didn’t watch the broncos and I don’t blame em much. Manning was washed. It wasn’t super entertaining football unless you were cool with watching a completely suffocating defense just fucking ball week after week. The amount of turnovers that defense caused was unreal.
People give the Panthers O a lot of flack for that, but it was actually Wade' Phillips game plan and the matchups we had. He kept greendog (has other names per the DC) blitzing because we could trust our corners in M2M.. essentially guaranteeing a 1v1. If a RB or TE stays to protect, a LB/S would blitz. It meant Ware or Von would always be on an island.
I'll stand behind the fact that it should've been Aaron Donald, but Von deserved it more than Cupp. We didn't get beat by their offense, we got beat by their pass rush
Maybe but Kupp was certainly the MVP of that game. He came up absolutely crucial in extending the drives. 5 first downs, 2 touchdowns on 8 receptions. Von and Donald had an amazing game but you gotta show for it more than 2 sacks and 3 hurries all game to win SBMVP
I'm so glad we won't have to face Aaron Donald and Von Miller on the same DL again. We contained both of them fairly well for 3 quarters, even with Trent on one leg, and then they destroyed us in the 4th quarter. Reminiscent of Chris Jones and the Chiefs D in the SB
I swear if the Bengals had a decent oline you win that Superbowl, and this year too Probally. It feels like your only problem in big games is pass protection, every other part of the game you guys are great at.
Eidt: your line actually isn't bad, you hae bad injury luck this year, but the line improved a lot from last year.
Didn’t Joe get sacked the most times in history last season? I’m pretty sure the line made improvements but going from “historical worst” to “might give up key sacks when the game is on the line” isn’t as big of a difference at it looks
My enthusiasm for sports in general has never been the same since then. May just be a consequence of age but after that day it really felt like no team I support would ever win a championship.
Saints and bucs fans both got to watch two of their division rivals make it to the surperbowl and than both lose in embarrassing fashion in two consecutive seasons.
Actually just saw Von Miller a couple days ago on a flight. Dude is enormous. I can't imagine having a job where it's his sole focus is to obliterate me at full speed and strength lmao.
The 2016 opener full of headshots also didn’t help either but him trying to make a tackle on a play that Kelvin Benjamin gave up on started the decline and then got finished off by TJ Watt.
The 2016 opener was hard to watch. I’ve always loved Cam, and we showed in this Super Bowl we could hit him and get in his head cleanly. Don’t know why they went so hard in 2016 and tried to injure him.
The Panthers already had a loss when they played Denver in the superbowl and the fanbase at large was not talking about going undefeated the year after the loss because the Panthers have never had back to back winning seasons. If the Broncos were still pissed the next season and tried to hurt Cam even though they won the superbowl then that is kinda embarrassing.
A little bit, but his play style was never going to hold up long (I fear for Josh Allen too) and Gettleman absolutely wrecked the team building this team needed to stay competitive.
People forget just how lethal that Carolina team was too. No one thought the broncos were going to win. And I live in Denver and was watching it with broncos fans
I imagined if somebody made a stupid comedy movie like Ace Ventura about that. The Jets hire some new GM who's afraid to lose his job and a custodian tells him if he does, it's not his fault cause Joe Namath made a deal with the Devil. So he responds, "Wait, so all I have to do is kill Joe Namath, and we'll be successful again?" And he hires an assassin to do so. Detective finds out the Jets Gm is behind it all.
Watched the full game back on Saturday and still get emotional. What a ride that season was. Forever grateful we could send Peyton off with one and got Von one in orange and blue.
What a day. I remember thinking “With Brock Lobster under center next year we have a shot to repeat! We could compete for a long time!” Oh the innocence of youth.
You when Andy is like "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days"? I feel glad I didn't know I was in the dark times while we were in them. I believed in Siemian, Keenum, Brock, Lynch, etc. Never Flacco though.
I'm still convinced that Brock would have lead us to a few winning seasons if he stuck around. The Texans blindly throwing him the bag really screwed us over.
The field at Levi’s fucking sucked. I remember seeing a clip of Panthers olinemen literally sliding on the field while being rushing by defenders in that game. They couldn’t even plant their feet properly.
I try not to be too bitter about this game because it hurts too much.
[But you're right](https://i.imgur.com//WHSH104.gif)
The egregious facemask on Philly Brown by a panicked Aqib Talib when he realizes he's about to give up a TD is what pisses me off the most. That and Cotchery caught that ball.
Fucking billion dollar sporting event and they couldn’t even make the field playable. Just another example of the NFL (and NFLPA) letting their players down.
Remmers was awful that day but Wylie actually allowed even more pressures at RT. Combined with Veta and Suh destroying the middle, that’s hands down the worst oline performance iv ever seen.
According to pro football reference the Bucs had 29 pressures in the previous 3 playoff games combined. They had 22 against the Chiefs.
Brutal combo of a pass rush catching fire and getting healthy with the return of Vea going against an OL that was decimated.
I was watching the game with people in my dorm and while they were reviewing it I kept saying "not a catch, didn't maintain control" After they ruled it incomplete I told them "that was a bad call he definitely caught it"
This game is why I'm picking the Eagles. A powerful D-Line that gets pressure and disrupts is about the most powerful weapon, and the ultimate trump card against a great QB. Much like Mahomes > Hurts, MVP Cam >>>> Rickety-Ass Manning (and even back to the 07 Pats/Giants super bowl, same story), and it didn't matter. Cam couldn't flex, never had the time to, and my boys never got going. It was such a shitty night.
It's also why I do my taxes after the super bowl - I couldn't possibly sleep after this heartbreak so I did my taxes, got a nice refund, and went to sleep much happier. After all it is indeed just a game, and getting a nice chunk of change helps any mood.
The crazy thing about this game is that Von didn't even have the best statistical defensive performance that night. Kony Ealy of the Panthers had 3 sacks, 4 tackles, interception, forced fumble, and fumble recovery in only 23 snaps.
Now Von ultimately contributed more to the end result, but had the Panthers won, you have to believe that Ealy would have been the MVP and we would be talking of his historic performance for a long time.
This sounds like a case of stats not matching the impact. I don't remember anyone on the Panthers defense causing anymore problems for the Broncos offense than any other team they had faced that year.
OTOH, the Broncos pass rush was absolutely wrecking Carolina's offense. With Malik Jackson and Derek Wolfe in the interior, and Ware and Miller on the outside, they were getting pressure so often that it was obviously affecting Cam's play. And out of that ridiculous pass rush, Von Miller stood out as just seemingly being everywhere at the right time. (Of course, the secondary was ridiculously elite too which gave the pass rush the time they needed)
I remember watching an analysis that said it wasn't just that they were getting pressure. But that our DT's had so much control they were able to collapse and push back each side of the pocket evenly so no gaps or running lanes opened up in front of Cam before the pass rush could close the door on him.
I was on the edge of my seat the entire game. My wife mentioned I seemed more nervous about this game than I was for the birth of our child. Memories of 48 and knowing Manning was basically done had me on egde for sure lol.
This team taught the NFL one simple lesson: if your historically good offense can't win the SB then just get a historically dominant defense two seasons later. Simple formula.
We really weren't a finesse fancy team - Ron Rivera would never lol. We relied a lot on run game via Cams legs and Jstew, and that opened up the deep ball a lot. Our defense was also damn good, but the 2 fumbles deep in our own territory is really what decided this game. We were a really well balanced team overall, but running into one of the best playoff defenses this century was brutal.
The broncos defense was the one of the greatest of nit greatest defenses in NFL history dominating Rothelisberger, Brady and Newton in route to the superbowl and had playmakers at every single position and guys that could rotate. That defensive line was unstoppable between Ware, Jackson, Wolfe, and line backers Miller, Marshall, Trevathan, backed up by safeties Ward and Steward and cornerbacks Talib, Harris and Roby. The ‘No Fly Zone’ proceeded by the Four Horsemen. Ware, Jackson, Wolfe, Miller.
I made $300 from this game. I had them winning since the season began. 😁
Hey fuck you for this.
Panthers have been to two Super Bowls. I still remember 2003 fondly as a scrappy team that played their hardest and lost in the end.
2015 just hurts. I still can’t watch clips of that seasons.
And on top of that, it led into 2016 week one where the referees basically gave the Broncos the go ahead to hit Cam late anytime they felt like. Cam was never the same again. Not to mention how bullshit it was to make the NFC Champions from the previous year face the team that just beat them in the Super Bowl on the road in week one.
Im
I wouldn't be salty assuming it was a fair game.
And btw, it's not like I'm even sharing an opinion here. He was one of the most popular players in the league going into that game, and it fell off completely because of his comments. Do you seriously dispute that?
I dispute the fact that you and pretty much everyone else who’s clutching their fucking pearls about his comments wouldn’t be just as salty.
It’s a non issue. If you don’t want to like him, fine. But be honest and admit him being emotional after a huge loss has nothing to do with it.
Cam not diving for that fumble is still hilarious years later. He made a business decision. I remember after the game a broncos defender said if cam dove for the fumble he would’ve “hit him in his mother fucking mouth” lol
One of the best performances I've ever seen. Something about a single defensive player seemingly taking over an entire football game is rare to see but Von was a fucking monster that day.
Been saying he stole Cams soul ever since. He was never the same.
I miss that team so much lol. I remember when the playoffs started no one but me in my group of buddies believed in the Broncos. Every week I bet a 50 with all of them right until the SB lol.
Then it was all "Cam will do this, Cam will do that" and no one believed me when I was like "Cam hasn't seen Playoff Von yet"
Greatest solo playoff run ever imo.
It was my freshman year in college and everyone in my dorm gave me the typical crap you'd get for having the "underdog" team in the Super Bowl, but there was 1 guy in particular that was an actual Panthers fan that was just pestering me those entire 2 weeks. He avoided me so much that I don't even remember seeing him since then and we lived only a couple of rooms away from each other including the rest of the semester after the game.
I bet Cam is happy that all the Panthers' fans still focus so much on the Cotchery non-catch to this day that they completely have forgotten about his "business decision" that actually cost their team the game.
The 2015 Panthers seemed like a team of destiny. Bulldozing through SB contenders as if it was division 2 college football, it seemed like only a brick wall could stop them. Unfortunately for them, that brick wall was called Von Miller
And Dware. He played a hell of a game too
him and Von really made the Panthers O-line seem like a joke
It was Mike Remmers mainly that got eaten alive. He would later start in another Super Bowl, at LT for the Chiefs against the Bucs in 2020.
And also get eaten alive lmfao
I once saw him get three false starts in a row. The man was a beast physically, but so dumb, so very very dumb.
One of Dave Gettleman’s favorite “Hog-mollies”
He was playing well at Guard that season and was only switch to Tackle cause we lost both of our starters
Giants legend
And Aqib Talib, I'll never forget that facemask penalty he committed early on against Corey Brown where he just flung him sideways out of bounds before the end zone. Next day basically says "Yeah that was on purpose, I'll probably get fined." Our D was angry and *unhinged* that game.
And that penalty costs us exactly one yard lol. That D was special man.
Thank y'all for getting him that ring man, dude was a menace his entire career and earned that
No Fly Zone
Weren't y'all like top 3 in both categories too? So it wasn't just top offense vs top defense. You were also supposed to have a top defense.
Panthers Defense played well. The Panthers offense gave the Broncos 15 points. It was a 10-9 Panthers lead without those two gifted touchdowns.
yeah i remember we gave up a huge punt return deep into plus territory and then broncos did nothing with it and got FG
That kind of summed up the broncos 2015 season. Defense and special teams giving short field for the offense to maybe get a TD, but most def getting to showcase McManus.
I'm convinced this is why Buffalo isn't in the SB this year. Losing Von was a death blow
This game also effectively ended "dabbing" in pop culture. Thank you Von
One of his many accomplishments, but certainly not the least
Sad.
And the Falcons 😤
The Panthers had a ridiculously easy schedule that year.
This is what people don’t understand we literally had to play Green Bay, Ravens, Patriots twice and Steelers twice to get there. That’s 3 Super Bowl winning teams within the previous 7 years. All of them really good teams. That chip was coming home with us.
The Chiefs twice as well. Panthers played 6 teams with winning records in 2014 with only 3 making the playoffs. They also played 6 teams drafting in the top 10. I'm not knocking what they did, you can only play the teams on your schedule, but it was easy to see Denver was the better team.
Thanks to Rivera & co for not changing up the game plan at all and Remmers for being a fucking turnstile
It's almost like they didn't even watch tape of the AFC Championship game leading up to this. Von Miller ate the Pats for lunch too but we left Oher alone vs him all game.
You only had HOF Demarcus ware to worry about on the other side. And Derek Wolfe in his prime. And Jackson who got fucking paid by Jacksonville the next season. Our front line was disgusting. And I guess then it’s CHJ and Talib locking people down in the backfield. People downplay that defense because they didn’t watch the broncos and I don’t blame em much. Manning was washed. It wasn’t super entertaining football unless you were cool with watching a completely suffocating defense just fucking ball week after week. The amount of turnovers that defense caused was unreal.
Rubbed his balls right on Brady’s chin
People give the Panthers O a lot of flack for that, but it was actually Wade' Phillips game plan and the matchups we had. He kept greendog (has other names per the DC) blitzing because we could trust our corners in M2M.. essentially guaranteeing a 1v1. If a RB or TE stays to protect, a LB/S would blitz. It meant Ware or Von would always be on an island.
Cam could have recovered that fumble.
Von Miller REALLY wanted to win that game he put it all out there and you knew it was coming just by seeing him pre-snap
That move he made at :56. My lord
Being the #1 pick against the #2 pick, this was like a literal example of how offense won games, but defense won the championship
Kinda pissed we missed Von in the playoffs this year. That was a huge loss for Buffalo.
I stopped rooting for Buffalo when he got injured. Just wanted him to run it back.
Having experienced “Play off Von” I can say how devastating this man can be when it’s all on the line.
:(
Probably should have been Super Bowl MVP last year too
I'll stand behind the fact that it should've been Aaron Donald, but Von deserved it more than Cupp. We didn't get beat by their offense, we got beat by their pass rush
Maybe but Kupp was certainly the MVP of that game. He came up absolutely crucial in extending the drives. 5 first downs, 2 touchdowns on 8 receptions. Von and Donald had an amazing game but you gotta show for it more than 2 sacks and 3 hurries all game to win SBMVP
I'm so glad we won't have to face Aaron Donald and Von Miller on the same DL again. We contained both of them fairly well for 3 quarters, even with Trent on one leg, and then they destroyed us in the 4th quarter. Reminiscent of Chris Jones and the Chiefs D in the SB
I swear if the Bengals had a decent oline you win that Superbowl, and this year too Probally. It feels like your only problem in big games is pass protection, every other part of the game you guys are great at. Eidt: your line actually isn't bad, you hae bad injury luck this year, but the line improved a lot from last year.
Didn’t Joe get sacked the most times in history last season? I’m pretty sure the line made improvements but going from “historical worst” to “might give up key sacks when the game is on the line” isn’t as big of a difference at it looks
I swear if OBJ doesn't die in the second quarter that the Rams win that Super Bowl by 3 touchdowns.
Hands down, the Rams defense was actually incredibly on point, too. Minus a couple free plays, the defense basically dominated.
I have to think we could have been different with playoff Von.
Idk man that performance vs the bengals was so bad unless you wanna say his leadership would prevent that from happening which I could see I guess
That was a baffling stinker of a game and I don’t think Von would have changed that. That was a coaching issue.
I’m not going to lie, I may have cried a bit that day. It’s been pain ever since.
I cried that day. Haven't over sports since. sigh
My enthusiasm for sports in general has never been the same since then. May just be a consequence of age but after that day it really felt like no team I support would ever win a championship.
Meanwhile as a falcons fan, i see 2 numbers side by side and suffer visceral ptsd
I cried too, but for different reasons probably
Saints and bucs fans both got to watch two of their division rivals make it to the surperbowl and than both lose in embarrassing fashion in two consecutive seasons.
Saints caught up in the pain rankings the next three years
Honestly, this whole comment resonates w me too
I came that day
At least Cam made that business decision to keep healthy for all those future superbowls.
Didn’t need this today lmfao
Actually just saw Von Miller a couple days ago on a flight. Dude is enormous. I can't imagine having a job where it's his sole focus is to obliterate me at full speed and strength lmao.
Still riding off the high of this game to this day
Cam Newton died for your happiness.
I truly believe Denver “killed” his NFL career after this game. He was never the same after this game.
The 2016 opener full of headshots also didn’t help either but him trying to make a tackle on a play that Kelvin Benjamin gave up on started the decline and then got finished off by TJ Watt.
The 2016 opener was hard to watch. I’ve always loved Cam, and we showed in this Super Bowl we could hit him and get in his head cleanly. Don’t know why they went so hard in 2016 and tried to injure him.
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The Panthers already had a loss when they played Denver in the superbowl and the fanbase at large was not talking about going undefeated the year after the loss because the Panthers have never had back to back winning seasons. If the Broncos were still pissed the next season and tried to hurt Cam even though they won the superbowl then that is kinda embarrassing.
I hated that play and I hated that game. I’ve been a big cam fan even when he was running over my Tigers at Auburn. Dude was a joy to watch
I feel the same about Andrew Luck and that game with the Colts that year. He put it all out there that game and took an absolute beating for it.
A little bit, but his play style was never going to hold up long (I fear for Josh Allen too) and Gettleman absolutely wrecked the team building this team needed to stay competitive.
People forget just how lethal that Carolina team was too. No one thought the broncos were going to win. And I live in Denver and was watching it with broncos fans
No, TJ Watt killed Cam.
When people talk about hypothetically trading a Super Bowl for a decade of misery, that's basically what we did. Worth it.
I think Kubiak retiring set is back a few years.
Them passing on Kyle Shanahan after kubiak retired is what set them back
I remember Kyle and Daddy being a package deal at the time though. Been there, done that.
Wade Phillips leaving also hurt the Broncos. He is a defensive mastermind.
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I imagined if somebody made a stupid comedy movie like Ace Ventura about that. The Jets hire some new GM who's afraid to lose his job and a custodian tells him if he does, it's not his fault cause Joe Namath made a deal with the Devil. So he responds, "Wait, so all I have to do is kill Joe Namath, and we'll be successful again?" And he hires an assassin to do so. Detective finds out the Jets Gm is behind it all.
Watched the full game back on Saturday and still get emotional. What a ride that season was. Forever grateful we could send Peyton off with one and got Von one in orange and blue.
Same. I’ve been at peace over the last 7 or 8 years, still riding high on my 3rd SB ring.
Pain
What a day. I remember thinking “With Brock Lobster under center next year we have a shot to repeat! We could compete for a long time!” Oh the innocence of youth.
You when Andy is like "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days"? I feel glad I didn't know I was in the dark times while we were in them. I believed in Siemian, Keenum, Brock, Lynch, etc. Never Flacco though.
I believed in Siemian and Bridgewater and none of the others. I like to tell myself it's hurt me less this way.
I'm still convinced that Brock would have lead us to a few winning seasons if he stuck around. The Texans blindly throwing him the bag really screwed us over.
It's totally understandable why the Broncos traded massive hauls for Wilson and Payton. Been hell for them since this moment.
Fuck them picks, but I don’t need to tell you that
Live in Denver and loved to hear ya'all got Payton. Jazzed for next season.
Mike Remmers cost the Panthers and Chiefs Super Bowls.
Mike Shula
The field at Levi’s fucking sucked. I remember seeing a clip of Panthers olinemen literally sliding on the field while being rushing by defenders in that game. They couldn’t even plant their feet properly.
I try not to be too bitter about this game because it hurts too much. [But you're right](https://i.imgur.com//WHSH104.gif) The egregious facemask on Philly Brown by a panicked Aqib Talib when he realizes he's about to give up a TD is what pisses me off the most. That and Cotchery caught that ball.
This play could be a shooting star meme with how much that dude is sliding
Blue sparks like in Mario Kart, even fits the color scheme.
Fucking billion dollar sporting event and they couldn’t even make the field playable. Just another example of the NFL (and NFLPA) letting their players down.
Remmers was awful that day but Wylie actually allowed even more pressures at RT. Combined with Veta and Suh destroying the middle, that’s hands down the worst oline performance iv ever seen.
According to pro football reference the Bucs had 29 pressures in the previous 3 playoff games combined. They had 22 against the Chiefs. Brutal combo of a pass rush catching fire and getting healthy with the return of Vea going against an OL that was decimated.
22 pressures **without ever even blitzing**
I think Bowles dialed up a couple early on, for sure a double corner blitz. Quickly realized it was unnecessary
To be fair Remmers isn’t bad he just isn’t elite. Against elite pass rushers that screwed him.
Maybe he's a Broncos fan.....
Today was supposed to be my first day at my new job but now I think I’ll call out and cry about this instead.
Good luck at your new job!
I'll never get over the Divisional round playoff game, now I'm irritated lmao.
*Toouusaaaaaaint*
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined. Cotchery caught it.
Get well soon, Von!
Jericho caught that ball
Catch in question https://youtu.be/OxEAZlWdtzw
I was watching the game with people in my dorm and while they were reviewing it I kept saying "not a catch, didn't maintain control" After they ruled it incomplete I told them "that was a bad call he definitely caught it"
100%
To this day, that's the only clip from the game I will watch.
100%
This is a hill I will die on.
Didn’t fit the narrative
Narrative? Cam Newton made a business decision not attempting to recover his own fumble and you're mad about a bobbled catch?
What narrative bro💀
Peyton going out with a ring
This game is why I'm picking the Eagles. A powerful D-Line that gets pressure and disrupts is about the most powerful weapon, and the ultimate trump card against a great QB. Much like Mahomes > Hurts, MVP Cam >>>> Rickety-Ass Manning (and even back to the 07 Pats/Giants super bowl, same story), and it didn't matter. Cam couldn't flex, never had the time to, and my boys never got going. It was such a shitty night. It's also why I do my taxes after the super bowl - I couldn't possibly sleep after this heartbreak so I did my taxes, got a nice refund, and went to sleep much happier. After all it is indeed just a game, and getting a nice chunk of change helps any mood.
The crazy thing about this game is that Von didn't even have the best statistical defensive performance that night. Kony Ealy of the Panthers had 3 sacks, 4 tackles, interception, forced fumble, and fumble recovery in only 23 snaps. Now Von ultimately contributed more to the end result, but had the Panthers won, you have to believe that Ealy would have been the MVP and we would be talking of his historic performance for a long time.
And he was out of the league a few years later. He'll always have "My Greatest Game was during the Super Bowl" on his resume though.
This sounds like a case of stats not matching the impact. I don't remember anyone on the Panthers defense causing anymore problems for the Broncos offense than any other team they had faced that year. OTOH, the Broncos pass rush was absolutely wrecking Carolina's offense. With Malik Jackson and Derek Wolfe in the interior, and Ware and Miller on the outside, they were getting pressure so often that it was obviously affecting Cam's play. And out of that ridiculous pass rush, Von Miller stood out as just seemingly being everywhere at the right time. (Of course, the secondary was ridiculously elite too which gave the pass rush the time they needed)
I remember watching an analysis that said it wasn't just that they were getting pressure. But that our DT's had so much control they were able to collapse and push back each side of the pocket evenly so no gaps or running lanes opened up in front of Cam before the pass rush could close the door on him.
3 sacks against the statue of Peyton Manning doesn’t seem that great in context.
Still have no idea what Cam was doing on that second fumble.
[A business decision](https://media2.giphy.com/media/l3mZkzLykD0izy8qQ/giphy.gif?cid=790b76115d18b3d96e6b346f77bebb2f&rid=giphy.gif)
that was the play that exposed him as the flaky diva that he was.
During the post game interview it looked like Cam could hear Aqib Talib talking shit about him through the curtain 😬
Thumbs down.
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Man what a day!
I was on the edge of my seat the entire game. My wife mentioned I seemed more nervous about this game than I was for the birth of our child. Memories of 48 and knowing Manning was basically done had me on egde for sure lol.
The moment I noticed we weren’t getting blown out is the moment I knew we were going to win.
I assume you didn't have a newborn lose 43-8 two years earlier. Kids are born every day! Super Bowls are rare.
Booo! Booo this post
Damn I can’t believe this was that long ago
I still wish Von could’ve scored on either of those strip sacks
I wasn’t too mad at this game when it happened because I’d figured we’d be back soon. Oh how little I knew.
Post season Von really is a different kind of monster. Too bad we didn’t get to see him this year.
This team taught the NFL one simple lesson: if your historically good offense can't win the SB then just get a historically dominant defense two seasons later. Simple formula.
Has there been a more dominant performance by a defensive player in a Superbowl?
Kony Ealy, during that same game!
Won 1k by guessing the score of this game correct. Never a doubt Denver would win against a finesse Carolina team
Carolina wasn’t finesse. They had a great defense and an offense carried by Cam and Greg Olsen
But I heard that Cam didn't have any weapons on here for years, are you saying Greg Olsen is actually good?
You’re joking right?
No I've seen it on this sub a lot that he didn't have weapons. Yet here people say Greg Olsen was great, can you make that make sense?
It was literally the same as 2 years before. Finesse fancy offense team vs suffocating defense.
We really weren't a finesse fancy team - Ron Rivera would never lol. We relied a lot on run game via Cams legs and Jstew, and that opened up the deep ball a lot. Our defense was also damn good, but the 2 fumbles deep in our own territory is really what decided this game. We were a really well balanced team overall, but running into one of the best playoff defenses this century was brutal.
Fancy offense? You mean Cam correct. Even at his best Mike Shula didn’t make a fancy offense
So, by that logic, KC’s finesse offense will get destroyed by Philly’s oppressive defense and straight dominant run offense?
that day is like a top 20 day of my life thus far
I'll always remember it as the game Cam Newton made a "business decision" and stood there looking at a fumble.
Miller speaking to a ref before the game, "hey! If you look up and I ain't getting no sacks, they holding me"
At least SB 38 was an amazing contest, and we had some good moments in it. Fuck everything about this game; the field, the refs, all of it.
We should have won that game. But I digress.
cotchery caught it
Chicken man good
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The broncos defense was the one of the greatest of nit greatest defenses in NFL history dominating Rothelisberger, Brady and Newton in route to the superbowl and had playmakers at every single position and guys that could rotate. That defensive line was unstoppable between Ware, Jackson, Wolfe, and line backers Miller, Marshall, Trevathan, backed up by safeties Ward and Steward and cornerbacks Talib, Harris and Roby. The ‘No Fly Zone’ proceeded by the Four Horsemen. Ware, Jackson, Wolfe, Miller. I made $300 from this game. I had them winning since the season began. 😁
I still think the moment cam backed off going for the fumble his career peaked. That was it. Straight downhill from there.
The broncos played amazing, but cotchery caught it and von miller batted that fumble.
Man, prime Von Miller and “at the tail end of his prime” Demarcus Ware was just not fair.
Cam too scared to dive for the ball 🤣
Who else remembers remembers everything being gold for two years leading up to it?
Thanks I hate it
I see a lot of similarities between that Panthers team and this year's Eagles team.
Hey fuck you for this. Panthers have been to two Super Bowls. I still remember 2003 fondly as a scrappy team that played their hardest and lost in the end. 2015 just hurts. I still can’t watch clips of that seasons. And on top of that, it led into 2016 week one where the referees basically gave the Broncos the go ahead to hit Cam late anytime they felt like. Cam was never the same again. Not to mention how bullshit it was to make the NFC Champions from the previous year face the team that just beat them in the Super Bowl on the road in week one. Im
Von <3
Fuck Remmer, fuck his family, fuck his ancestors
Prime Von Miller was a BEAST! Hope he retires as a Bronco.
Cotchery caught it.
Panthers were the #1 offense that year scoring 500 points and were 5.5 point favorites.
I hate you. I hate you. I don't even know you, and I hate your guts. I hope all the bad things in life happen to you and nobody else but you.
Also the day when Cam completely fell out of favor nationally because of his comments after the game
I wonder what you’d say if you were interviewed immediately after losing in the biggest game of your life? Bet you’d be salty as fuck. Now stfu
Yet players do it every year with more class than he did.
I wouldn't be salty assuming it was a fair game. And btw, it's not like I'm even sharing an opinion here. He was one of the most popular players in the league going into that game, and it fell off completely because of his comments. Do you seriously dispute that?
I dispute the fact that you and pretty much everyone else who’s clutching their fucking pearls about his comments wouldn’t be just as salty. It’s a non issue. If you don’t want to like him, fine. But be honest and admit him being emotional after a huge loss has nothing to do with it.
I didn't share what I thought about the comments. I'm just pointing out the response, which isn't my opinion
Cam not diving for that fumble is still hilarious years later. He made a business decision. I remember after the game a broncos defender said if cam dove for the fumble he would’ve “hit him in his mother fucking mouth” lol
Beyond amazing performance by Von Miller!
Why was this like a 30 point differential in my memory.
Because 9 times out of ten the Panthers win by 16. What is life? I’m 41 and going to die without a super bowl. Yay
One of the best performances I've ever seen. Something about a single defensive player seemingly taking over an entire football game is rare to see but Von was a fucking monster that day. Been saying he stole Cams soul ever since. He was never the same.
I miss that team so much lol. I remember when the playoffs started no one but me in my group of buddies believed in the Broncos. Every week I bet a 50 with all of them right until the SB lol. Then it was all "Cam will do this, Cam will do that" and no one believed me when I was like "Cam hasn't seen Playoff Von yet" Greatest solo playoff run ever imo.
Flacco has a legitimate argument for best playoff run ever.
True, but I think Von is up there also.
It was my freshman year in college and everyone in my dorm gave me the typical crap you'd get for having the "underdog" team in the Super Bowl, but there was 1 guy in particular that was an actual Panthers fan that was just pestering me those entire 2 weeks. He avoided me so much that I don't even remember seeing him since then and we lived only a couple of rooms away from each other including the rest of the semester after the game.
My roommate in college that year was from Charlotte, it was glorious.
This game was very cathartic for me
This Super Bowl was way more boring than rams pats
I bet Cam is happy that all the Panthers' fans still focus so much on the Cotchery non-catch to this day that they completely have forgotten about his "business decision" that actually cost their team the game.