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...

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The Cincinnati Bengals are taking on the Baltimore Ravens tonight on Thursday Night Football, setting up one another primetime AFC East clash. All Thursday night games kick off at 8:15 ET on Prime Video.

As always in our brave new world of expansive sports gambling, it is now easier to bet on games than to watch them. You can catch current odds on all NFL games for Week 8 here on FanDuel.

The 4-5 Bengals are a hard team to predict. They 0-3, have only beat the worst teams in the NFL (the [Carolina...

The offense tries to string together consecutive not bad appearances.

The Carolina Panthers offense was good enough to beat the New Orleans Saints on Sunday. I hesitate to call them ‘good,’ because they weren’t particularly efficient in any one area. However, Bryce Young was able to lead four scoring drives, three of which ended the endzone, and that was enough to hold on against a crumbing New Orleans Saints. It’s the type of performance that will win a few games here and there, especially against other bad teams.

Well wouldn’t you know it, we’ve got another bad team on the...

The running back signs a deal that ties him to Carolina for another four years.

The Carolina Panthers have signed running back Chuba Hubbard to a four year contract extension with a base value of about $33 million. $15 million are guaranteed.

Hubbard was often maligned as a rookie for his inconsistent hands and underwhelming ability to break tackles. He rectified those issues heading into his second season and has become one of the few consistent bright spots on what’s otherwise when a dreadful Panthers offense for the past couple of years.

This season has been his best to date....

Check out what the oddsmakers think about the Panthers this week

The 7-7 Carolina Panthers are taking on the 2-7 New York Giants in Munich, Germny. That means you can once again risk it all on your favorite team—or, as should be more likely, bet against them.

There isn't much point to expecting anything predictable from the Panthers anymore and it seems like the folks at FanDuel agree. Take a look:

Week 10

Spread

Giants: -6.5

Panthers: +6.5

O/U

40.5

Moneyline

Giants: -270

Panthers: +220

Remember that home-field advantage is traditionally accounted for by spotting the...

How this week’s injury report affects our picks

The Carolina Panthers are as healthy as they have been all season (minus the veritably full roster of players on injured reserve). Let’s take a look at how this week’s injuries will affect the Week 10 outlook:

Jonathon Brooks

Brooks is officially active for the first time this season. The highly anticipated 2024 second round pick has been off the field for longer than Dan Morgan intended when he traded up to draft him this spring, but he’s here now. Brooks is widely hoped to be coming in to take the...

The Panthers struggling defense faces another struggling offense in this special game from Germany.

After being generally atrocious all season aside from the Raiders game, the Panthers defense had itself a solid performance against the Saints last week. I use the word “solid” loosely, as they still allowed almost 200 yards on the ground. However, Derek Carr struggled throwing the ball, with an 18 completions on 31 attempts for 236 yards and 1 TD. This week, the Panthers face another offense struggling to be effective, as the Giants as a whole rank dead last in points per game across the...

The quarterback situation has been settled for the season

The trade deadline has passed, the Carolina Panthers are about to head to Munich, Germany, and the immediate future of the quarterback situation has been settled. Bryce Young, after a moderately competent showing in a loss last week to the New Orleans Saints. was not traded and has been announced as Sunday’s starter against the New York Giants.

Once again, we are only asking the standard confidence question this week. This is not a question about your confidence in the Panthers ability to beat the Giants. Rather, we are surveying whether...

We might finally get to see the debut of the Panthers second round pick on Sunday.

Carolina Panthers head coach announced that rookie running back Jonathon Brooks would be activated off the PUP list and will be on the 53 man roster for the Panthers game against the Giants in Germany. The Panthers had until 4:00 today to activate Brooks or he’d be placed on season ending injured reserve. Canales said Brooks’ status in terms of being active for the game would be determined later in the week, but David Newton seems to think Brooks is going to play.

If...

The rest of the league keeps moving even when the Panthers win a game.

The Carolina Panthers won a football game on Sunday, which is obviously not something we’ve been able to say very often the last couple years. Then the Panthers stayed winning by somehow landing a 4th round pick for wide receiver Jonathan Mingo just before Tuesday’s trade deadline. With all this winning happening on Mint Street, it’s easy to lose sight of what else happened in the NFL this week. That’s where we come in.

NFC South

The Saints fired Dennis Allen

The Saints unraveled...

How did the Panthers do in fantasy football? Will those trends continue?

The Carolina Panthers finally got back in the win column, and Bryce Young got a little revenge against the New Orleans Saints in Week 9. Let’s take a look back at how individual Panthers players fared and if they are worth keeping moving forward. For these articles, I will be using fantasy totals in an ESPN Fantasy league I am part of, so your numbers might have been slightly different.

Quarterback

Bryce Young

While Bryce did not put up insane passing numbers, but he did enough...

The Panthers get a better return for Mingo than they got for Diontae Johnson.

The Carolina Panthers are trading Jonathan Mingo to the Dallas Cowboys according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

According to Schefter, the Panthers are sending a 7th round pick away with Mingo. In return, they’re getting a 4th round pick from the Cowboys. As it stands right now, that would be the 11th pick in the 4th round, 112th overall.

It’s a significantly better return than the Panthers got for Diontae Johnson, who is inarguably a much better wide receiver. Clearly contractual things and player perceptions played a...