Dallas has played two of the worst teams in the league and made their offenses look halfway competent. They have yet to play a team with a defense as dominating as the Bears. I'd be surprised if the Bears defense surrenders more than 10 points at home. They will also create multiple turnovers which should give Grossman the field position that he needs to at least get enough field goals to lead the Bears to a 7 point win.
As far as the Atlanta thing, I'd stay far away from them. Joey Harrington??? Sure the Panthers looked like **** against Houston but if you follow the Panthers you know that they haven't won a home opener since 2003 and historically have a few "WTF" games every now and then. The weakness of the Panthers D is in their secondary. I greatly question Harrington's ability to exploit this weakness. The Panthers run D is pretty good and wasn't even that bad last week. They shut down Jackson in week 1 and should have no problem containing Dunn and Norwood.
The Panthers have also handled Atlanta the last two years on the road. They have had some of their best rushing success against the Falcons D, with Foster rushing for 150 two years ago in a 44-11 rout in the Georgia Dome, and last year they threw the ball a total of 7 times and won the game by utilizing a ball control offense splitting carries between Foster and Williams.
If they can establish a running game yet again, the offense will open up for Steve Smith to torch Deangelo Hall. The Falcons gave up a ton of yards to Adrian Peterson two week ago. I predict a similar effort this week and the Panthers will win this game by 10.
As far as the Atlanta thing, I'd stay far away from them. Joey Harrington??? Sure the Panthers looked like **** against Houston but if you follow the Panthers you know that they haven't won a home opener since 2003 and historically have a few "WTF" games every now and then. The weakness of the Panthers D is in their secondary. I greatly question Harrington's ability to exploit this weakness. The Panthers run D is pretty good and wasn't even that bad last week. They shut down Jackson in week 1 and should have no problem containing Dunn and Norwood.
The Panthers have also handled Atlanta the last two years on the road. They have had some of their best rushing success against the Falcons D, with Foster rushing for 150 two years ago in a 44-11 rout in the Georgia Dome, and last year they threw the ball a total of 7 times and won the game by utilizing a ball control offense splitting carries between Foster and Williams.
If they can establish a running game yet again, the offense will open up for Steve Smith to torch Deangelo Hall. The Falcons gave up a ton of yards to Adrian Peterson two week ago. I predict a similar effort this week and the Panthers will win this game by 10.
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