Welcome to the chase to the championship. The site of super bowl 50. Eight days. Broncos and panthers. The chase for the championship. This is webster. We got eight days to kickoff. The madness is about to begin. Thats right. The broncos will depart on team bus and head to dia. They will arrive in san jose. The super bowl week gets underway. Fans are invited out to seat team off. Get out there at 12 45. Wave to the guys on the buses. Were going to be there every step of the way as well. Lets stay in the moment. Peyton manning is doing this week. He was that this might be my last rodeo. He said jokingly that hospital been confirmed. The person close toast peyton, not any of did he tell eli anything . Hes not talked about it. Hes not led one way or the other. His focus is on obviously, you know, for a back healthy for this season and hes dope a good job doing that and winning the playoff games and now his only focus and goal is winning the championship. Look forward to that. It may be his last, it may not. I dont know. But if it is, a good way to finish with a super bowl win. Boy, you aint kidding. Thatll be the topic the number one topic of conversation next week. Why wait . Lets get it started right here. Beat writer. Welcome. The ultimate insider. And former former colting ravens giants, seahawk and broncos receiver. Did i leave anybody out . I think you hit everybody. Did mayton tell you if this was his last rodeo. No. He did not. I wouldnt hold back that information. Who knows fflt it is, this is the way to go out. By winning a championship. What a great ride. To be where he was and to see with a chance to win the super bowl, maybe his last ever game. That. Were talking about seven hall of famers who have gone out on winning a title. Only one comebacks done that and i think you know who that is. A number seven, maybe . Jowr right. I feel the difference this week. And stuff like that in the press conference. I think like aprovide from super bowl week the team feels different. Way more relaxed. Yeah. I think thats just the tone that i was talking to branches done about. The tone hes set. This is could be three against cincinnati or super bowl week. Everything. I love peytons demeanor. He looks calm and confident. I think youre going to see another great game this week. And practice hard and in the back of the week. Therm ready for a game on sunday but now they go and start palo alto there. Bright and early tomorrow morning many denver sports anchor is there right now the calm before the storm. The chaos actually really begins tomorrow. I cant wait. Hey, greet frtion santa clara and the field of jeans. Levi stadium. We beat them to the bay area. The team is flying into San Jose International airport monday. Theyre heading north to palo alto. Practice at stanford university. Its been receded and former cardinal head coach jim harbaugh built a fence outside of the practice field. Every broncos super bowl workout is offlimits. Samoa, these fields will be protected like fort knox. We were lucky to get a peak inside. This is a trip down memory lane for john elway who starred at heard from one of his former teammates that know about the elway cross. Ill explain coming up later in the show. Thanks. The second week in a row that the broncos are on the cover. Championship. Orange rush. Peyton may get all of the attention but defense is what got the broncos to this point. Now the defense number one overall. We know the stats, guys. Number one with sacks. Sacked tom brady four times. Hit him 21 times. Yep. Back down to troy and the guys the defense. The defenseehas gotten us here. Does defense win championships and can thebroken a defense we saw it in 2013. You can win super bowls and thats what broncos have. They have a come nanlt defense. We saw it against the patriots. All the talk about the defense its warranted, isnt it . The challenge is real. What hurt the patriots is theyre so one dimensional. They were goating off the ball. It wont be as easy this time. I expect Wade Phillips to have something. A little bit zone matchup coverage. When they blitz and bring pressure. Look for them to contain cam knew newton. The challenge is different but with branches done the defense can keep them in the game and win them this game. You know as a past that when the quarterback doesnt have the time it really affects everything. This defensive pass rush is into this game especially getting after cam newton. I think if you got a front that you can make that good quarterback an average quarterback. He was not the tom brady that we saw saw all season long. Thats what were going it see against cam knewton. He wont be the same and thats when a great pass rush to bring to the table and thats what youve seen all year. Well continue to see that. Cam has to be frus readed. Get pressure up the middle and outside hes danger. Get pressure around the ends he can run up the middle. The middle and the ends against him. The one game he got a lot of pressure, he got pressured on 44 of the drop passes. Thats the one game they lost. Under pressure this year hes way below. He has arm strength so again, its youre rolling the dice. Thats the issue. I have no doubt theyll get to him. Can you affect his passs . Even if you have a second for the cornerbacks denvers going to win the match ups outside. Its the issue with look at greg olson. Talk about defense carrying this team. Last week Peyton Manning had owen daniels against the patriots and the offense went into quick sand. Points. Which actually turned tout be a game winner. But the offense couldnt put it away. Couldnt generate a time consuming drive. The defense had to stop a game tying twopoint conversion where he looked to be open dont throw it to him and he deny. Ly looked at him and came back game over but the broncos with one of the last two standing but the offense is ranked number eighth in the postseason behind the panthers whos number one, panthers, seasawks carolina averaged 0 points a game. Broncos are it 21. 5. Can that offense do enough in super bowl 50 to sphwhin i think so. But its dicey. They have to be able to score 24, 27 points. They cant win at 20 to 17, 20 to is 13. Can they rush the ball enough to set up a couple of chances down the field. This game sets up as a fairy tale ending to him. If is time for thomas to have the kind of game that von miller had. A signature game in the biggest moment. Can thomas one of those is a touchdown. Big play. Make a play. Dt thats for sure. A lot. So hell be hoping to do that in super bowl 50 im guess. The running game also. Theyve got to establish a running game. A thats the recipe. If you can run the football and youve got a great defense, thats what theyve been doing. They kept at it and stuck to it which is paid dividends. even though its not been ii. It controls the clock and keeps the defense honest. A little bit more time so they need a little bit more this week than theyve gotten. Well talk a lot more xs and os coming up in just a few minutes. Its going to stretch downtown San Francisco. Its going to so many that claraafor the game and stanford where the broncos are going to practice. Right now deserve reporter is probably a dozen of those. This one has showing highlights from the super bowls. I saw the co2002 that showed the positive outcome that we want to see for the broncos. I kind of ignored the other ones showing the other super bowls and one thing is very clear about not just the super bowl but here at super bowl city is the kind of security. Heavily armed San Francisco police officers, ive seen Homeland Security here. Clearly the fbi. Its not just the super bowl and whats happening at santa clara. Coming up in a half hour show you something that i saw inside. Will be inside for that. I want to show you something that caught my eye. It deals with a raiders fan in a broncos jersey. Can you believe it . Come back in half an houu. We will see you then. Thats quite a tease. Way to go. Just Getting Started on this chase for the championship special. The future with the broncos and we talked about defense winning championships. Well talk with troy about how this version of the orange rush matches up with the panthers. Talking with my counterpart about what his city thinks gljtsd r phil, here in denver we got united in orange, orange all the time. What do you guys have . In carolina. We got black friday. Everybody warys their panthers colors and all of the fans get fired up for the game and they dress up, they look good. Bowl 50, here we are the golden super bowl. The number one seed in the nfc. The number one seed in the afc. You couldnt have drawn it up in better. Now . I know denver is. One of the more unbelievably stories ive ever covered to see the fan stouter swell from week to week because at the beginning of the season the way they finished last year there were some optimism but seeing now. So as they continue to win and undefeated, 140 this place was going crazy and then to see what they did to seattle and see what they did to arizona, the environmental was unbelievable. Look, we cover Peyton Manning here in denver and peyton is all business. Not a whole lot of celebrating after touchdowns. Whats it like covering cam newton . Its different. Ever been prepared for because he said at his present availability. Nobody knows how to handle me because nobody knows what to compare me to. Ron has been so good about letting the letting the players be themselves. Letting the personality shine through. So when cam dancing in the end zone and celebrates, thats not for the cameras. At practice, hell be dancing. Hell be doing the mac its one of the more unbelievable things you can watch. And theyre a fun team to root for. They dont care. It rubs some people the wrong way, they take some criticism but whatever works, i think, is the bottom line. Talk about some xs and os. What do you think about the defense . The brop coas defense . Theyre number one in the nfl. Cam newton a different how do the ppnthers feel . Ic you would ask how do you stop blank quarterback and the answer is pressure. So good about getting the pressure and they know it. They are well aware of them. And everything that denver can do but theyve been through some good defenses so far to get here. Seattle, arizona, so very respectful but theyre very confident in their abilities. Panthers led the league with 32. 1 points per game. Cam helps that. What do you guys there what do the panthers say about Peyton Manning . Hes taken a beating. The lowest rated quarterback in the nfl but the sheriff. Do they respect him . What Peyton Manning can do because of what hes done in the general consensus is yes. They have a tremendous amount of respect for him. Josh norman our phenomenal cornerback was talking this weekend and he say i had i grew up paying with Peyton Manning in madden. And one of our corners says thats not the same peyton. It doesnt matter. These guys from ron on down have a Great Respect for peyton and theyre not listening to the same less arm strength, not as much zip on the ball. Can do. Fromcare lie narks chart. Absolutely. Thanks so much, guys. All right. Beat writer. One. We knew that the defense was lifting. Them or can peytonnpull one more trick out of his bag . I do believe that peyton is going to be able to make a couple more plays. He was allowed to see how this defense can win games. That his role was going to change. A minimize role is no shame at this point. Mistake free football but theres going to be a couple plays down field. He had one that he missed. Another one with jordan norwood. I believe he needs to make two and i think hes capable of it. Hes as healthy as hes been all season. Ready for this moment. Its not going to be too big for him. The offense has to help but ultimately the defense that keeps the paniers reach. Thats right. Fourth time in the super bowl. Tieing him for third most in nfl history. Offensively its been tough. Look to someone whos been consistent. Somebody different and in your mind you say is he going to victory . If they slide norman over the pan slide him to dt hes going to have fewer opportunity bus chances to make plays. In foreman is strictly on dt, then sanders becomes more critical and i said last week i thought it was going to be vernon davis but davis or owen daniels in the seam again, they represent a weapon thats been under used this year. You saw how big it was last week in the with win over the patriots f. They use norman then look for emmanuel to make the big play. All right. You heard it here first. Hes the insider for sure. Hell be over to you. Talk about that oline too. Up next for the choice for the championship. He shattered records on the croas going to practice there 3 all week. Live at levi stadium. Pure television gold. Plus dig deep inteert question what does the future hold for Peyton Manning. Brandon caught over a thousand yard of footballs from peyton in 2004. Just a few years ago. 45 passes for 544 yards and five touchdowns in the first season with the broncos any guesses . I dont know. Well, take a look at this. This guy. Who is that . Passes from peyton. This is footing an dating back to when he was a freshman we obviously had the same fashion sense back then. Okay . Th is on the football field where peyton, eli, cooper and o dell the manning family for almost 30 years and there we are. Me and Peyton Manning back in the good ol days. About what that did you see the form . Peyton those are crisp passes back then. You started him. You met him im responsible for where he is now. Anyway, do you think that his future depends on whether or not the broncos win the super bowl . I dont think so. I think he knows what hes going to do and i dont know but i think he does. You know, obviously all signs are pointing towards this being his last game. Thats what it looks like but who knows. You never know with him. You never know. You heard ron talking about that peyton will know what apercent if you dont have some surprises for him. You got to prepare for him. Stay a step head of him. When he walks to the line is there anybody who knows better . He can dissect a defense better than anybody. He helps offensive line out so much because he gets rid of the football so quick. He gets the receivers in right routes. Putting the running back in the right play. Nobody better at prereading than him. Can Peyton Manning physically hold up with the offensive line the way it is now. A huge question all yearlong. If they dont protect Peyton Manning this thing is going to go downhill. They played better. Just taking a sack. Helping the passing game. Saiment formula. A pleasant surprise for me the last couple of weeks. You talk about him taking a sack. Forget. That he fell down to take a sack and got up and hit Emmanuel Sanders for a pass. And he talked about this week. A running quarterback and a i won put labels on anybody here. This is a different Peyton Manning now though. Hes healthy, hes healthy and having fun. Hes confident and, you know, you can just tell back there hes just doing whatever it takes to win a Football Game and its fun watching it. Its been really fun the last couple of weeks. Its going to continue. Hes going to get better this week than he was last week. Peyton manning in the super bowl again. Its mind blowing its happening but its going to be a great week. Elway was lighting up the scoreboard at stanford. We talk about his success as a player and general manager. Plus, parties Getting Started in San Francisco. Were back live with whats went back into the archives second in the heisman voting that year. This year, his Sophomore Campaign he threw 27 touchdowns but as a senior he threw for 3,242 yards and 22tds. Elway went into the rival high school of my alma mater. Thats a conversation we can also known as the farm. This is where he blossoms into a superstar. I have this feeling that, you know, when he played he wouldnt want the game to get too far out of hand. And exciting. Played College Football and baseball with elway. He was part of johns first Sports Illustrated cover. He made an impression during the first practice together. John threw me a pass and at the time i didnt know how hard he could throw and it i thought i caught it but and hit me in the chest. I thought i had broken my sternum. I was having a hard time breathing. And then all of a sudden at the end of the prablght i said whats going on . I took my shirt off and a cross in my chest. Cross. More than 30 years later, elway remains a mythical character. In player of the century. Admired. Athletes being respected. With john, there was. It was a reverence. E recall it was the first the sports context i ever saw fans literally bow down and worship. There was a reverence about him that was reserved for a special caliber of athlete. Its almost that level where he was a sports god. Monday the broncos will work where young elway hoped his crafted. Super bowl 50 has a come full circle feel to him. Those that dont know from the front office. I dont think theres a lot of surprise. You know, when he took over 3 that role, you know, certainly people realized that getting back into football didnt mean he was going to settle for less denver has been be to super bowl and hes had his fingerprint on seven of those eight. Not only john but his outstanding coach. And then Peyton Manning. Yeah. Not a bad brain trust. There what a great toir shh would be. His third ring here from the front office. Keep in mind hes not the only one with bay area ties. Coming up hear from his positions coach about what he on campus for the first time at cal berkeley. Thats coming up a little bit later. Wow. All those old interviews and pictures of john elway at stanford, guys. We talk about a homecoming but elways kind of going back to where it all started for him too. As an executive no one can match his resume. Two super bowls as quarterback and turn out as the gm of the team and construct this team . His fingers prints are all over this. He puts in the hour. Hes involved. He isnt a figure head. So to win a super bowl with a roster man. Cant match that resume in the nfl history i dont think. When he raised a trophy in 99 hes back again. This iits a fairy tale. Its absolutely storybook got a tall task. Free agents who need to get paid. How are we going to pay Vaughn Miller . The list goes on. What do you think his First Priority should be . Theyre going to try to get him locked up. Its going to take some time. Hes not going anywhere. Get a long term deal but theyre going to pay him. The issue where does brock come in . Is he four year 52, three year, 36. Hes earned himself some money. Nick foles at two years 24. I think its going to come in at four years for brock to bring down i dont know that you can afford him but youd love to keep him. Front. You sat in his office and of thing. What was that like . There was not much negotiation going on there. Thank you. And that was about it. But just to give me that tun what i thought my career was over. Thats the thing that theyve brought in. And not only was he a great player hes making himself a greaa executive and a great gm. Hes great at finding talent and free agents. Hes just bbinging it all together at the right time and thats hard to do. A lot of players fail. Timing is everything. Timing is everything. All right. Thanks. Look super bowl city in downtown san fran. But denver 7 reporter is there right now. Theres some crazy stuff going on tonight, marshall. I got than when i was pan to the right here and on the screen theres performances i believe every night at super bowl city and on the screen right now is chris isaac. I dont know what hes sing `ight now. You can see some the Photo Opportunities here at super bowl city with the 50 everywhere. I want to show you some video before it got dark here. A lot of 49ers and a lot of Oakland Raiders fans near the other big super bowl 50 logo thats here. That logo is everywhere. Its on buildings, kiosks all around. Theres one highlighting social media and it talks about whats trending on twitter. Peyton that strange site busts. Raiders fans taking a picture in a broncos jersey. How come you took a picture with a broncos jersey . I dont know. His grandpa and grandma are from colorado so we kind of keep it under cover. With not the broncos . I know that you know our photo journalist might have a problem with what they just said. Super bowl city is open today. Its open through the super bowl. Its an extra weekend to give the locals a chance to enjoy this and a chance to enjoy many the scenery in the background. The bay bridge. Were going to see shottings of golden gate bridges as we get around the bay area. Reporting live. Denver 7. Back to you. All right. Thanks a lot, man. Nice job. Heading home for the super bowl. Cj anderson grew up in the bay area. What its like for his coaches growing up to see him in the big game now and its one day from super bowl week. Bend me shape me, any way you want me as long as you love me, its alright bend me shape me, any way you want me youve got the power, to turn on the light shape the best sleep of your life. Sleep number beds with Sleepiq Technology adjust any way you want it. The bed that moves you. Super bowl week and looking forward to monday night at super bowl opening night. Previously known as media day. Weell be decked out in the jackets again. This time we have orange pants to match it. We need to move up the ladder this year. Internets top ten two years ago but we got to get to number one. Okay . Thats my big thing. Here it is. All pressed and ready to go. So yeah. Jackets on monday night. I like it. Was the super bowl going on or the oren and lionel show. The way it should be. All right. Lets get away from the crazy jackettings now. Back with denver post. Guys we kind of touched on itta little bit. Lets get into the meat of this. What is the biggest concern . Well, for me its lou. You got to know where he is. Hes interception every game so far in the playoffs. Hes that guy that can change a game for you. And for the broncos offense you got to know where he is and stay away from him. Yeah. Go with cam newton. He will be the mvp. He can scribble outside the lines. He can color outside the line. Every goes right defensively and he makes a play. Those kind of guys are always dangerous and thats why because of the dynamic of run this year. He would be the oncern. I dont think the broncos cant contain him. If youre asking if one thing its a good whos 6 6 250. Theres no one else like him. 45 touchdowns in the regular season. Fourth i kind of agree with you. If cam newton has a great game we could be in trouble. Another concern might be the weather. It could be if its pouring rain. [ laughter ] california. Let go to first alert meteorologist here with the super bowl week forecast. Hey, guys. Weve been talking a lot about direction into colorado. But the good news is that this is all going to be wrapped up be the time we get to the end the well look at all of the sup shawndre up here friday with a lie of 65 degrees. Saturday, 66 and 68 for the game on sunday. sunny sky. Our overnight lows inned mid 40s. The interesting thing about that moisture coming in from california is its effecting us here in colorado. If youre planning on like a lot of the denver 17 here. Going to be a lot of snow here across the front range and we cant rule out flight delays here from california all the way across california. So we do have a pretty good snowstorm settling on in to our area. Snow across the front range now. Planes. Just a precursor of things to come. We are expecting even more heavy snow. Course, well be talk more about the forecast. Subbie skies and temperatures in the upper 60s. Cant beat that. Alwwys bringing the good news. Thats good for broncos country in california. Time for the tan the fan of the week. Let me tell you. Best time of my life. Check it out. The broncos superfan. The 7 sports extra team always searching broncos country. Orange. Todays journey took my and grill. Some of the usual suspects and aye hes the owner of this tricked out broncosthemed dodge durango. You can do whatever you wantings man. His pimped out ride took top spot in the car contest at this broncos fan rally. Sitting in here. This thing is ridiculous, man. How many hours went into this putting this thing together a lot. Probably a month on the inside and about two months on the outside worth of paint. The second time we painted it. Just like his fan come. How long you been a bronco fan . All my life. What made you really become such a superfan like this . I have to say bailey. Hes a big fan. Cant go anywhere else without it. Pass is going to be intercepted. In the end zone. From one champ to the next. Its time to bring it out hope farg broncos championship. This team got what it takes . Oh, yeah. Number one defense. Defense wins super bowl, man. Number one defense. We go the it. Whats the key to the game . The running game. Need the running game back. As long as we got the running game. Webster. 7 sports extra. Got the handshake down and everything. That was great. Look for more fans in the bay area all this week on dhais for the championship. Oh, yeah. Way to go. Thank you. A super bowl homecoming for one bronco coming up hear from cj anderson. His bay area coaches that watched him growing up. Making a homecoming. 12 broncos including some on injured reserve are from california. Denver 7 sports extra live at levi stadium with more on homecoming week. Oren . Yeah. This is a big week for a lot of these guys. For cj anderson, this is home. He down played that. But come on. Playing a super bowl in your own backyard, thats a big deal. Especially when you consider how far this man has come from undrafted to the biggest stage in professional football. Cj grew up 52miles from levi ssadium. Led the jags to 4postseason appearances. No major colleges gave him a look. He was in oakland. The leading rusher in the california where he averaged scooped him up at at free agent and the rest is history. Now cj he knew right away he had what it took to make it in the nfl. Just to see where hes come from. You know, he comes from a very humble begins. He was going be something special. He has this smile that kind of permeates throughout the entire team. His ability to say no or to say yes. Okay . So somebody tells him no, hes the guy that says yes, ill be able to get this done. Just to see the maturity over the years. Its really exceptional and pretty special. Yeah. And coach is going to be cjs special guest. Cj told me this week hes been proving people wrong his entire in the super owl before. It only is special if you win it. We got to take care of business next sunday. Well, taking care of business at home. For cj it would be especially sweet. Nice job out there. We get out there tomorrow. We talked about cam newton. We talked about the defense and the oline and a tight end having a big role in this and 18 needing a big game. This team is approaching this game mindsetwise differently than two years ago. Have you found that this week . Absolutely. The coach. It felt like last time that whatever they did they went did the opposite this time. They were too loose at times. Guys were arriving in new york, media. They reflected in bitterness about the players who traveled later in the week. Theyve done is differently this time including having injured players travel and be in the team picture. Things that seem silly. But they mean so much to guys whove put in the time and it goes back to garys message in the meeting room in huge letters that says be accountaale. And great Team Leadership down the line. Looking at their next job either. Thats a difference than last time. Last year that was a huue thing. Youve been here twice. Two times super bowl championship. As a player, during this week, whats going through your mind as you approach super bbwl week and actually getting out . This week what youre trying to do is get your tickets and all of that stuff out of way. Get your family members taken care of. Super bowl week i dont want to hear anything from them. Okay . Im focusing on what needs to be done to win the football