The sky is falling. The end is nigh. The 1-3 Carolina Panthers are the worst team in the NFL and everybody knows it. Everybody except for sportsbooks, apparently. For the first time this season, the Panthers are favored
to win a game against an NFL team.
The 1-3 Miami Dolphins—whose sole win came last week over the 0-4 New York Jets—are one of the few teams that can lay claim to a worse season than the Panthers so far. Here are the odds to date:
Week 5
Spread
Dolphins: +1.5 (-115)
Panthers: -1.5 (-1-5)
O/U
44.5 (-105/-115)
Moneyline
Dolphins: +100
Panthers: -118
Remember that home-field advantage is traditionally accounted for by spotting the home team—Carolina, in this case—three points on the spread. The spreads have been wildly inaccurate for Panthers games this season, though, so take that with the biggest grain of salt that you can carry to the stadium on Sunday.
It’s hard to make anything of these odds. The Dolphins are a slow rolling dumpster fire of a team right now, but they are relatively healthy—minus the potential loss of Tyreek Hill yesterday. The Panthers have had one extremely high high and several very low lows to date. Carolina is also very from healthy and not getting healthier quickly.
This is a game that the Panthers should absolutely win and should win by a wider margin than two points. That said, I fully expect them to do anything but that as is their historical wont.
The above odds were current as of the writing of this post. You can take a look at—and place a bet on—live odds for this game and more here at FanDuel Sportsbook.
