To be fair Wade Philip’s original playbook had Von Miller running around with a Donkey Kong hammer. It got vetoed so they had to improvise.

The NFL: Where failing to throw the ball past the line of scrimmage offsets the penalty for someone drilling you in the head.

Agree, the Panthers time management needs work... but Cam took 5 head-to-head shots in this game...In 30+years watching the NFL, I don’t believe I have ever seen such biased officiating (and Im not a Panther fan)...

This isn’t in anyway to make excuses for Carolina as their time management was horrendeous at times, but it was shocking to watch how dirty the Broncos defense plays.

Maybe Cam should reconsider the whole kneeling thing.

On the plus side, the white - whoops, sorry - right QB won, so there’s that.

irregardless. it’s clear the officials couldn’t care less.

To be fair, it was the fourth helmet to helmet hit he took. Guess the refs figured if the first three didn’t do it the fourth wouldn’t either.

Hey cut the NFL some slack. It only took three helmet to helmet hits on Newton for the refs to actually call one of them. Progress!

Yeah, that was at least the third dirty helmet to helmet of the night, ridiculous.

He took a handful of other headshot throughout the game that went uncalled as well.

MVP protection status only counts if you’re white. It’s always been open season on Cam. Something something he's big and runs the ball something.

Should have been pulled immediately. Shame on the refs.

Broncos defenders have been targeting Newton’s head all night long. Only one flag thrown by officials, which was nullified by the grounding call. The league will slap a couple of players with $5k fines (a drop in the bucket), publicly reprimand those involved, and move on. The NFL is not serious about player safety.

As a football fan, period.

They also didn’t call the hit below the knees. It was really two personal fouls on that play.

If Cam was white, the announcers would have noticed that his skull was smashed. As it is, the man gets killed for our entertainment. Football.

So head-to-heads on Cam Newton are legal this year?

As a huge a Broncos fan, we should all feel pretty dirty about that win.