Cat Scratch Reader
The Giants are bad. The Panthers are bad. This could be fun
Welcome to our weekly game pick series where I will attempt to guide you through picking every Carolina Panthers game of the 2024 season. At this point you know I'm not picking the Panthers and no amount of serious analysis of the team is going to change my mind or surprise any of us. They are who they are.
Fresh off a win against the New Orleans Saints, the Panthers are heading into a game in Munich, Germany against another one of the worst teams in the NFL in the New York Giants.
The Giants are coming off a divisional loss to the Washington Commanders where they played shockingly well. Daniel Jones turned in one of the best performances of his career and they ultimately lost to rising star Jayden Daniels team by only five points. That stands in stark contrast to the 40-7 drubbing the Commanders delivered to the Panthers just three weeks ago.
Still, if we know anything about football it is that the Panthers are weird and divisional games are weird. I’m going to lean into the momentum from the win against the Saints, the positive impact of the return of Jonathon Brooks, and the mostly non-existent narrative of the Brian Burns revenge game and give this edge to the ‘home team,’ That’s why my FanDuel pick for Week 8 is the Carolina Panthers. I’m not confident in this pick, but I do think it will be a relatively close game as the Panthers can once again be described as a stoppable force meeting a moveable object.
