Carolina Total Wins Under 4.5 -105 (pinn -102, greek +100)
3x to win 2.86
They are looking at a nightmare QB situation, the worst in the League, and a 1st time head coach has to deal with it. Start Clausen, start Newton, doesn't matter. Neither are NFL level. Would like to see Clausen start and do terrible, like last year, and they bring in Newton as the savior and he does as bad or worse.
Do they start a 23 yo QB who threw 52% his first year, 3x more INTS than TDs, with a 58 passer rating? Or a 22 yo QB who's all hype after 1 year in D1 College and totally unprepared mentally for NFL? Screwed no matter what they do.
Lockout hurt Carolina more than anyone. Rivera a 1st time head coach behind the ball with totally new players. No nucleus established, no continuity. Rivera brought in a new OC, Rob Chudzinski, who was a TE coach in SD. Only OC exp is 2 years in 07-08 with Browns. So he has about 6 weeks to implement an Offense from scratch, with 2 bums at QB to work with. The DC, Sean McDermott, is also new and was fired at Philly. He has 6 weeks to implement a Defense from scratch. This can really be a disaster.
Coming off 2-14 and the schedule is harder this year + shit QB + 1st time coach
@ARI / +5.5 / 31%
GB / +8 / 21%
JAX / +2 / 46.5%
@CHI / +8.5 / 20%
NO / +7 / 25%
@ATL / +13 / 11%
WASH / +1.5 / 47.5%
MINN / +3 / 41%
BYE
TENN / +1 / 48.75%
@DET / +7.5 / 22%
@IND / +10.5 / 14%
@TB / +8.5 / 20%
ATL / +7 / 25%
@HOU / +8.5 /20%
TB / +5.5 / 31%
@NO / +13 / 11%
Possible they could be a dog in every game, but they might end up a -1/-2 at home to a team like WASH or TENN.
Key game is week 3 vs. JAX. They lose that they will be deflated after starting 0-2, then 3 losses @CHI, NO, @ATL. Start 0-6 and their season is done.
Key stretch is WASH, MINN, BYE, TENN. TENN should be a win after bye, but if MINN beats them decently and they have 1 or 0 wins, and Hasslebeck is dealing, they will beat CAR. After that, it's the walk of death last 7 games where they get 1 win max.
3-13