NFL Picks: Tampa Bay Buccaneers Listed as Touchdown Favorite over Carolina Panthers

November 10, 2010   ·   Jimmy Boyd   ·   Jump to comments

Division rivals Carolina and Tampa Bay will meet for a second and final time this season when they throw down in the big pirate ship Sunday.
Tampa Bay won the first meeting 20-7, and NFL odds makers expect it to pull off the season sweep. The books have listed the Buccaneers as a 6.5-point favorite with the total set at 36.
It’s been a nightmare season for Carolina, which had high hopes after closing out its 2009 campaign with three straight wins.
The Panthers were expecting to have one of the best running attacks in the league and were hopeful that Matt Moore would be their quarterback of the future. However, that’s not how the cookie crumbled.
Carolina ranks 26th in the league in rushing offense, averaging only 90.8 yards per game on the ground.
Running backs Jonathan Stewart and DeAngelo Williams, which both gained more than 1,000 yards on the ground in 2009, have only combined for 569 yards this season.
There is a chance both runnin...

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