Hopefully, the Carolina Panthers (9-0) were watching Monday Night Football this week. A former fellow unbeaten team, the Cincinnati Bengals, fell to the Houston Texans at home in a game they were widely favored to win. Just because everything has gone well to this point doesn’t mean a team can overlook anyone—every team in the Super Bowl era but the 1972 Miami Dolphins has slipped up somewhere.
There are no gimmes in the NFL.
This is an important fact to remember when Washington (4-5) comes to town.