Super Bowl 50 Daily Blog-Friday February 5th

The Broncos wrapped up their practices in preparation for Super Bowl 50 at Stanford University. All players were participants, and the Broncos are as healthy as you can be at this point in the year. Peyton Manning had another really sharp practice according to reports, but let's hope he saves some of that for Sunday. As more predictions came in and more experts talked about the game, I thought I heard something interesting from former Panther WR Steve Smith. He was on "Mike and Mike" on ESPN on Friday morning, and he said that all the stats, analytics, numbers, trends and everything else that everyone has talked about for two weeks in regards to this game means absolutely nothing. He said all that matters is how these two teams play once the game starts on Sunday. That is it. Throw everything else out the window. I thought that was one of the smartest takes I've heard from someone the entire two weeks. The predictions keep coming in favor of the Panthers, but some notable personalities are on record picking the Broncos. ESPN's Trent Dilfer, who does a great job, picked Denver, and WFAN's Mike Francesa went out on a limb and picked the Broncos as well. At least some people have some faith in the Broncos. The game is only 48 hours away, and Denver has one last walkthrough on Saturday at Levi's Stadium before Sunday.