Loving that I got 5.5 points to take Denver. Panthers are one of the most over hyped super bowl teams, and Denver one of the most under appreciated. Last time I felt anything like this was (ironically) 2 years ago when Denver played Seattle. I felt strongly that legion of boom would contain Manning and his passing targets. But Panthers secondary is no where near as good as legion of boom...its actually their defense's weakest unit. And Denver's D is much improved from 2 years ago having gone from 22nd overall to 10th, with the additions of ware, talib and others, and Wade coaching them.
To further embellish what I pointed out before about Panthers soft schedule, nearly half (7 out of 16) Denver's regular season games were against playoff teams, whereas Panthers only had only 4, 2 of which were Texans and skins who only madr post season due to playing in the worst divisions