Panthers vs. Eagles Odds Shift With Tanner McKee Starting

The Carolina Panthers have looked like one of the most improved teams in the NFL. They had their bye week last week. They will take on the Philadelphia Eagles in a game that probably looks like the biggest spread change from the beginning of the season, where you certainly would have expected Philly, with all systems go, to be 7, 10-point favorites, maybe over Carolina. But Carolina does appear to be the better team, at least on paper. Philadelphia will start Tanner McKee at quarterback. We don't know yet if Devonta Smith is going to start. McKee did throw a touchdown pass to Smith. in the first game that he ever played right now the line looks about even you see carolina more or less as a slight dog or slight favorite just depending on where you see it minus three right now is the current line uh yeah look i i think carolina this is this is joe for me uh one game that i'll watch closely because if i believe what is real about carolina then this is a game that they will win but man it feels a little trappy to me it feels a little trappy that carolina can go on the road and beat philadelphia and be favored in a road game almost last time carolina was favored in a road game and they are this week i'm not saying that they shouldn't be too much unknown for me though with uh with mckee i think mckee could throw for 350 yards i think he could throw for five interceptions so i don't know i'll pass on this game what do you think That's fair. Well, look, I already this is another one of the early line games that I liked where I felt good about Carolina coming off a bye. They were plus one and a half because I think Vegas was a little unsure of what was going on with the Eagles as well. And that was before the Jalen Hurts news. And once the Jalen Hurts news came out, obviously we saw that shift dramatically from plus one and a half on Carolina to minus three, minus three and a half, depending on where you're looking at it. But Carolina's coming off a bye. You're right. You know, Carolina on the road, should they always be favored in these kind of scenarios? Not necessarily, but This is an Eagles team that keeps finding ways to lose games. They're also finding ways to lose talent on the roster to play in these games. That's a bad combination. Not to mention, this is a team also coming off of travel from London, too, and that hangover of that, which typically does not go very well. So a lot of negatives there in that space.