Denver is in position to win the SB (though it is far from certain) despite Manning. What an ugly QB performance.
Patriots should be ashamed they let Denver score as much as they did. Manning appears to me to be beyond done. Every pass he does get some zip on it you can see how he is struggling to get that zip on it, and accuracy suffers.
If Denver holds on to win this they did it because Carolina's own mistakes/stupidity, solid defense, and a whooooole lot of smoke and mirrors (and IMHO Newton's inability to operate an offense when he has to be pocket QB -- though to be fair Denver's D has made pocket QBs look bad). It is frustrating watching this SB because just a modest improvement in our OL play and this would be our SB lead right now. Urgh...