“I’m excited about it," he said of the matchup. “I’m excited about the opportunity to go up against this team. They are the co-defending champs, and we’re ready for it.
“We are the better team."
The Panthers rallied in the fourth quarter of an Oct. 18 game at Seattle to beat the Seahawks 27-23. That led to a 14-0 start that was interrupted only by a 20-13 loss at Atlanta in Week 16.
Harper looks at Sunday’s game as an opportunity for the Panthers to further prove they’re worthy of their NFL-best 15-1 record.
“I’m not going to say we’re superior or anything like that," he said. “[But] at the end of the day we’ve been the better team all year long, and we’ve got to go out there and continue to stick to who we are and when we do this we’ve been very successful."
