Carolina will have a difficult time beating a top ranked Denver defense and the best game manager of all-time in ancient Peyton Manning. However according to our research of Super Bowl winning QBs, Cam has a 2:1 chance of winning this game. Ignoring everything else except our temperament makeup analysis of the starting QBs…
Winner – Carolina.
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Even though our prediction was incorrect Cam Newton outplayed Peyton Manning. Obviously looking at one factor, temperament makeup, is one of many that go toward winning a Super Bowl. Defense, team discipline and coaching all play a role. Carolina’s early missed field goal was the beginning of the momentum shift. Later, after the Tolbert fumble momentum clearly began shifting. Tolbert should have known better and kept two hands on the ball! Those two plays could have been an additional 6-10 points and provided a huge shift in momentum in Carolina’s favor. Instead they got behind and Denver’s defense turned up the pressure. These three things would have helped Carolina; 1) short to mid range timing passes to move the chains 2) a better WR – they missed Kelvin Benjamin 3) The third thing is eliminating mental mistakes. Mental mistakes lost Carolina the game. That’s a coaching failure.
Peyton Manning is done. He’s had a great career and now should retire. He should consider coaching. There’s no reason for him to continue playing. Therefore if Manning returns it is simply Peyton trying to prove us wrong and prove that he can still play. That’s the wrong reason to keep playing, let’s hope he shuts it down.
In the end Carolina’s mental mistakes lost the game and Denver’s defense won the game. The end of game strip of Cam’s pass was just the cherry on top for Denver. Cam shouldn’t be too hard on himself as that play didn’t lose the game. Actually Cam carried the entire offense on his shoulders. Cam will bounce back from this game and could be back for another Super Bowl. It was the mental break down that lost Carolina the game, Carolina was out-coached by Denver.