Panthers snap their five game losing steak in a way only they can

Wins are wins. If you are the Carolina Panthers, they don’t come by often enough to start being picky about what they look like. In a back and forth game versus the division rival New Orleans Saints, the Panthers came out on top despite gaining under 250 yards total, losing the turnover margin and allowing over 425 yards. In fact, they were the first team in the Super Bowl era to do all of the above and still come out of the week 1-0.

Did the Panthers...

Part one of this week’s mailbag!!

Hello CSR! Welcome to Brian Asks, part one of your weekly Panthers mailbag for everyone! We aren’t as doom and gloom this week, as the Panthers managed to get their second win of the season, with a major added bonus that it came against the division rival New Orleans Saints! To add even more gravy, the Saints fired head coach Dennis Allen following the loss. It just doesn’t get a whole lot sweeter than that when you’re not a contending team, so I’m making the win this week’s topic of the week!

To recap,...

Welcome to Monday Night Football

ESPN’s Monday Night Football is back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers visiting the Kansas City Chiefs at 8:15 ET on ESPN. The undefeated Chiefs are hosting an offensively competent, but frequently defeated Bucs team. Can Baker Mayfield finally beat a good team?

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 here on FanDuel.

Let’s keep this simple. The Bucs defense is not great. The Chiefs offense has been struggling, but still...

The Panthers beat the Saints 23-22 in Week 9 to improve to 2-7. Check out their complete schedule and results for the 2024 season. All times are Eastern Time.

The Carolina Panthers are 2-7 through Week 9 of the 2024 NFL season. They sit in third place in the NFC South and beat the Saints 23-22 this past week.

The time has come, will the team sell what they can?

The 2-7 Carolina Panthers may be hot off of doubling their 2024 win total—and matching their 2023 win total as well—but that doesn’t mean they are going to let nascent discussions of the playoffs distract them from the long term plan for rebuilding this team.

Years and years and years of bad drafting have left the team talent poor and desperate for contributors on rookie contracts. That means they could well be sellers at the trade deadline. You’ll find plenty of people online telling you that the team isn’t...

I'm almost kidding

The 2-7 Carolina Panthers, everybody’s favorite bet for the worst team in the NFL, just moved up in the race to make the 2024 playoffs, per NFL.com. That’s right, they’re now in 13th place (out of 16) in the NFC, ahead of the 2-7 New Orleans Saints and the 2-7 New York Giants. What luck that those are the opponents the Panthers are currently sandwiched between right now. Most people would say that the Panthers-Giants game in Munich has huge implications for the top of the 2025 NFL Draft, but we can technically also say that it...

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Welcome to Sunday Night Football

Sunday Night Football is back this week featuring the Indianapolis Colts taking on the Minnesota Vikings. All Sunday Night Football games kick off at 8:20 ET on NBC.

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 9 here on FanDuel.

On paper, there isn’t much separating the 4-4 Colts from the 5-2 Vikings. Both teams are trusting journeymen quarterbacks to not make mistakes with otherwise talented rosters. The difference...

The Panthers played a decent game on both sides of the ball and got to kneel out the clock for a win.

Bryce Young led the Panthers on a touchdown drive in the fourth quarter and got to take his first game winning kneel as the Carolina Panthers defeated the New Orleans Saints, 23-22.

First Quarter

The Saints leaned on Alvin Kamara to start, and the Panthers absolutely could not tackle him. For some reason the Saints went to the air once they got to the red zone, which the Panthers stopped and forced a field goal. The Panthers...

Oh look, it’s an opponent that nobody wants to see for reasons entirely separate from today’s game.

The Carolina Panthers are expected to lose to the New Orleans Saints this afternoon. Success on any level, let alone a win, would be truly surprising.

The team’s list of inactives this week includes safety Jammie Robinson, cornerback Shemar Batholomew, edge player DJ Johnson, left tackle Ikem Ekwonu, and tight ends Tommy Tremble and Feleipe Franks.

Brady Christensen will be starting at left tackle in the absence of Ekwonu and the recently returned Cade Mays will be taking over at center.

As always,...

A quick look at the best Carolina Panthers bets on FanDuel

The Carolina Panthers may be getting healthier, but that hasn’t been cause for growing optimism around their offense or defense. You can catch current odds on all NFL games for Week 9 here on FanDuel.

This space is going to offer weekly updates and advice on player and team prop bets specific to the Carolina Panthers. Take a look:

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Chuba Hubbard +100

Hubbard is rated as the second likeliest touchdown scorer in this game by any time odds, for the fourth week in...

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