Last Week I led our Week 3 preview by saying that the Carolina Panthers (+1)
opening as -2.5 point favorites over the New Orleans Saints (+3.5) was “ as close to a coin flip as you are likely to find in the NFL.” To spite me, apparently, our friends over at DraftKings Sportsbook opened the Panthers as -1 point favorites over the Arizona Cardinals (-1). That’s a whole point and a half closer to a toss up those of you keeping track at home.
That is interesting news for Matt ‘My teams get better in year three’ Rhule whose team is so hard to predict by oddsmakers a whole quarter of the way into his third season that they have no idea how his team will perform in a given week.