are set to visit the Cincinnati Bengals (-7.5) tomorrow for Week 9 of the 2022 NFL season. That sentence, while factually accurate, belies by its simplicity the inexhaustible source of chaos that these Panthers have become. Yes, there will be football. How that football will be described and what it will mean for the ultimate destinies of either franchise is almost impossible to predict.
DraftKings Sportsbook holds the Bengals as -7.5 point home favorites, which is as reasonable a bar to set as any. Both teams are injured and neither has proved ready to seize on their identity and use that concept to just, plain win.