Super Bowl 50 Betting Preview – Turnovers are REALLY the Key Factor

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By Charles Jay

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If you took at look at the Carolina Panthers at the outset of the season, you would probably never think that you would be sitting here at this point talking about the team that was first in scoring in the National Football League. But yet, there they are, with a 31.2-point average, and a quarterback who is a likely candidate to win the Most Valuable Player award. Cam Newton is having a dream season, and there are a healthy number of football bettors who expect him to cap that off with a victory in Super Bowl 50 against a guy who would then be fading into the sunset. Peyton Manning leads his Denver Broncos in opposition to the 17-1 Panthers in this game that begins at 6:30 PM ET on Sunday at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA.

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BetAnySports Super Bowl 50 BETTING LINE:

In the Super Bowl betting lines that have been established on this game by the people at BetAnySports, the Panthers are the favorites:

Carolina Panthers -5.5
Denver Broncos +5.5

Over 44.5 points -110
Under 44.5 points -110

So how in the world did Carolina become the most productive team in the league? Well, flipping the game with turnovers was a huge part of it. In the regular season, they led the league with 39 takeaways, then added nine more in the playoffs. When you include the post-season games they have had (and who wouldn’t?), they are at +28 in their turnover margin. They averaged 2.7 turnovers forced per game, which is 50% more than the next team on the list.

So as you can imagine, it is incumbent upon them to take the ball away from the Broncos. But what would happen if they couldn’t? That’s a very good question to explore.

Would you like to know what things look like in a parallel universe if the Broncos were not charitable with the football? Well, Carolina, along with its top figure in the points per game, accordingly led the league in points scored per drive, with 2.57. However, when it comes to yards per drive, which indicates the ability of the team to move the ball consistently, they were only 12th on the list, and 32.08. So clearly, getting the short field was a key to their success.

This is where the presence of Peyton Manning comes into play. Manning has never been a guy who was shy to “thread the needle,” so to speak. So no one was going to mistake him for, say, Alex Smith in terms of being somewhat “anal” with the football. At least until now. BetAnySports patrons know that he was second in the league with 17 interceptions, which was highly unusual in the respect that he only started nine games. Of course, the narrative that would come from the Denver side is that his foot injury contributed to that. But whatever the reason, the spirit of the Denver offense has been to minimize the turnover since Manning came back to the lineup. So he’s trying to rely on brains more than anything else, and he has now gone 78 passes without throwing a pick.

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Of course, for the Broncos to succeed doing this, they will have to run the ball, and with some success. They have a capable running back duo of Ronnie Hillman (863 yards) and CJ Anderson (720 yards), but remember that Carolina has allowed an opponent to rush for more than 100 yards only once in the last 11 games. If Denver can turn the corner, and move the chains without coughing up the ball, they would have taken a key strategic element out of the contest for the Panthers. And that would be very meaningful indeed.

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