New season, same story.

This is becoming easier to predict than any show on the CW Network.

According to NFL Pick Watch, 65 percent of NFL “experts” have the Carolina Panthers winning their season opening matchup against the Denver Broncos.

This seems to fall in line with what we saw last season.

Despite beating the Patriots earlier in the season, as well as having home field advantage, Denver was listed as a three-point underdog in the 2016 AFC Championship game. Many of the NFL analysts agreed with Vegas as nearly 78 percent of them picked the Broncos to fall at home.

They were wrong.

This trend only continued as the Broncos opened up as a three-point dark horse (which later moved another half-point) in Super Bowl 50. In anticipated fashion, 90 percent of the analysts on NFL.com and 75 percent of analysts on Fox Sports picked the Panthers to outscore the Broncos in Santa Clara. Surprisingly, none of them predicted Von Miller to have 2.5 sacks or Cam Newton to pout like a child.

Wrong again as the ‘No Fly Zone’ helped Manning capture his second Super Bowl championship.

With a new season on the horizon, I thought that maybe the national media might finally respect the Denver defense.

Clearly, I was misguided with my presumption.

Here is a look at some of the predictions around the web.

CBS Sports: Advantage Panthers

CBS Sports always has some of the most talented NFL analysts in the country, and nearly 63 percent of them have the Panthers beating the Broncos. Seeing as they are employed by the same company that hired Phil Simms, it seems tough to trust in their analysis all the time. Well, except Pete Prisco. That guy is awesome.

Sporting News: Advantage Panthers

Sporting News is putting a whole lot of stock in the loss of Malik Jackson and Danny Travathan as they predict the Panthers to leave the “electric” atmosphere of Denver with a 30-17 victory. They are not wrong. Losing Jackson and Travathan is tough, but the Broncos are deep within their front seven and they seem to have more talent than spots to place it.

ESPN: Advantage Panthers

Of the nine analysts that have made their picks for Week 1, six of them have Carolina winning. What is in the water in Bristol, Connecticut?

Bleacher Report: Advantage Broncos

It took some digging, but someone somewhere picked Denver to win on Thursday night.

All it took was to find a former Broncos’ quarterback who is also writing for a well-known sports blog.

Easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy.

Chris Simms, who spent one season in Denver and is the son to the aforementioned Phil Simms, picked the Broncos to win in an “ugly 20-17 type game.” Simms ended his Broncos’ tenure with a 29 percent completion rate for 25 yards and an interception. No one knows “ugly” like Simms knows ugly. And for that, I trust his judgement.

Broncos will win ugly.