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With the NFC South virtually locked up, there isn’t much for the Carolina Panthers to play for at this point other than the immortality of a perfect 16-0 regular season. A lot of people have already gone broke thinking this is the week that Carolina goes down and every week the Panthers just keep adding to their win column. The Saints have battled through an awful year and the Drew Brees/Sean Payton era appears to be coming to a close. Still in all, the 4-7 Saints can always be dangerous for 60 minutes as evidenced by their complete game on a Thursday night in October when they knocked the 6-0 Atlanta Falcons from the ranks of the unbeaten. Vegas opened the Panthers as 6-point favorites with the total set on 49. Carolina and over money has moved the number to -7 and 50 at this writing.
While the real star of the Carolina show is the defense, Cam Newton has emerged from a game manager to an elite NFL quarterback. The Big Figis completing just 57% of his passes but he’s minimized mistakes and makes the most out of arguably the least amount of weapons of any team in the NFL. Newton will kill you with his legs as well as his 427 rushing yards and seven touchdowns will attest. Jonathon Stewart has stayed healthy and has run for 832 yards as the feature back, starting to fulfill the promise that he showed coming out of Oregon several years ago. Greg Olsen is a lunch pail Pro Bowl tight end with 53 catches and veterans like Ted Ginn and Jerricho Cotchery at least keep opposing secondaries honest. The Panther defense is a monster at No.2 in the league and rocks two tackling machines as inside linebackers. The team has 33 sacks and 18 picks in 11 games.
Drew Brees is going to be 37 next month and it is starting to show as the former Purdue Boilermaker plays into his 16th year. He’s still on pace for 4500 yards and 35 touchdowns but interceptions are up as New Orleans battles through with an average at best offensive line. Mark Ingram is having a decent year with 700+ yards at 4.6 per carry but has been often taken out of the game by big New Orlean’s early deficits that has the Saints throwing out necessity. Brandin Cooks and Willie Snead are the new feature wide outs along with old stand by Marques Colston. The defense has been horrific which caused the firing of DC Rob Ryan earlier in the year. The Saints are second to last in total defense and are bottom four in every significant defensive metric.
There is no reason to think that Carolina will lose its focus here. Last week in Dallas, the Panthers got two quick defensive scores and went on to roll the Cowboys. Late last year, the Panthers rolled into this building as a nine-point dog and throttled the Saints 41-10 in the first game of this current 15 game regular season winning streak. Carolina has also covered seven of eight. New Orleans may have quit. They were one of the few teams in the league this year that came out of its bye flat and were held without a touchdown for the first time since 2005 by the Texans which also snapped Brees’ 45 game streak with a TD pass. The Panthers are 7-2 to the over in the L9, the Saints are 5-2 over in their L7.
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