As a kindness for ruining so many weekends this season, the Carolina Panthers (+4)
are playing the Chicago Bears (-4) on Thursday Night Football. That leaves this weekend blessedly free for fall yard work, family outings, or watching other, more coherent, NFL teams play actual professional football games.
In the mean time, we have to watch these guys pull whatever they can together on a short week with no identity to fall back on on offense and a wildly different roster, as it is every week, on defense. I was at first flabbergasted when the rest of the staff picked the Panthers to beat the Bears this week, but then Brian explained it to me:
“It’s Thursday Night Football.