Week 8 game pick sponsored by FanDuel

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.

Some weeks, this team kind of shows up. See the games against the Cincinnati Bengals and the Atlanta Falcons as reference. Other weeks, well, are different.

This week is going to be different. Not least of all because Bryce Young is set to start for the first time since the Week 2 home opener against the Los Angeles Chargers. That's not due to Young's development or Andy Dalton's recent…