NFL Picks Week 5: New Orleans Saints vs. Carolina Panthers

The New Orleans Saints and the Carolina Panthers will face each other on Sunday when they meet at Bank of America Stadium.

Two high-powered offenses (No. 2 and No. 3 in the league) meet in Charlotte where the Panthers look to say clean in the ATS wars (3-0-1) while the Saints ride a 3-0 SU and ATS win skein into the contest.

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Granted, Cam Newton has proved to be the real deal early on in his NFL career but the real talent is on the visitor’s bench where Drew Brees has pretty much earned a living in these types of games, going 10-2-1 ATS on the road against .400 or less division opposition.

The problem today, though, is Carolina has outyarded every opponent they’ve faced with Newton behind center. We may re-visit this game later in the week.

Currently the Saints are listed as 6½-point favorites against the Panthers, and the game's total is sitting at 51.

Note: pay close attention to this line as the Saints are 2-16 ATS as division chalk of 7 or more points while the Panthers are 10-2 ATS as home dogs of more than 7.

Free betting pick: Saints over Panthers by 6

Betting Stats:

The total has gone UNDER in 5 of New Orleans's last 5 games when playing on the road against Carolina
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of New Orleans's last 8 games when playing Carolina
New Orleans is 16-5 SU in its last 21 games on the road
New Orleans is 10-4 SU in its last 14 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Carolina's last 5 games when playing at home against New Orleans
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Carolina's last 8 games when playing New Orleans
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Carolina's last 14 games at home
Carolina is 3-7 SU in its last 10 games at home