We’re more than halfway through the 2022 NFL season now, and for the Week 10 edition of Thursday Night Football, we have the Atlanta Falcons traveling to Charlotte to take on the division rival Carolina Panthers.
These two teams met just two weeks ago and turned in a surprisingly-entertaining contest, and hopefully for the viewing audience, we get something like the same sort of thing on Thursday night. If Atlanta can secure a win, it will at least temporarily move into first place in the division with a 5-5 record, pending what happens with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the Seattle Seahawks in Germany on Sunday morning. A Panthers victory would really muddle the standings in the South, as every team would then have either three or four wins.
Both teams are coming off losses a week ago, so which of them will find a way to get back in the win column? We’ll find out soon enough. Before we break down the matchup, here’s how you can watch the game on Thursday evening.
How to watch
Date: Thursday, Nov. 10 | Time: 8:20 p.m. ET
Location: Bank of America Stadium (Charlotte, North Carolina)
Stream: Amazon Prime Video
Follow: CBS Sports App
Odds: Falcons -2.5, O/U 42.5
When the Falcons have the ball
We know at this point what the Falcons are about offensively: They want to run the ball early, often, and basically all the damn time. On the season, they have called for a pass on just 42.3% of their offensive snaps — the second-lowest rate in the NFL behind only the Chicago Bears. Incredibly, despite everything we know about how to drive efficient offense in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty-two, the Falcons are still ranked inside the league’s top 10 in EPA per play. (They’re tied for ninth with the Seattle Seahawks.)
Cordarrelle Patterson returned to the lineup last week, giving Atlanta a three-man rotation in the backfield alongside rookies Tyler Allgeier and Caleb Huntley. Patterson looked pretty good against the Chargers, handling 14 touches and gaining 53 yards while scoring twice, and also having a long touchdown called back by a dubious penalty. Allgeier broke a long run (44 yards) last week, and Huntley averaged nearly 5 yards a pop. Marcus Mariota is a big contributor in the run game as well, both on designed rushing attempts and as a scrambler. The Panthers have allowed the league’s fifth-most rushing yards overall, though that has mostly been a…
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