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Carolina +10½ over Los Angeles

1:00 PM ET. The Rams roll in looking like world beaters, winners of six straight and owners of the NFC’s hottest résumé. They’ve been shredding everyone in their path, Matthew Stafford looks like he’s 25 again, and Sean McVay has every toy in the box humming. When a team is lighting it up like this, the market inevitably inflates them. It’s happening here. Los Angeles has become that team the market automatically loves—chalk up another double-digit point spread and let the public hammer the favourite.

The Panthers? They walk into this week looking like the exact opposite. Carolina has dropped back-to-back home games, produced single-digit outputs in three straight losses and just got punched in the mouth on national TV by San Francisco. Now they’re on a short week with injury concerns all over the secondary and a date with Stafford and Davante Adams. It sounds like a disaster. That’s exactly why we’re interested.

Carolina is being priced like a corpse while sitting only a half-game out of first place in its division. They were live for 40 minutes against the Niners before falling apart, and this team hasn’t quit once under Dave Canales. They’re desperate, they’re humbled, and they’re catching the Rams at the absolute peak of their market value. Los Angeles is travelling cross-country into a letdown spot, coming off emotional wins and now laying double digits to a defensive unit that has been one of the league’s most competitive, even with bodies missing.

Bryce Young gets crushed for everything, but the kid keeps stacking reps, keeps playing clean, and keeps getting up. He’s not seeing ghosts—he’s seeing progress. Carolina’s run defense has stiffened, the pass rush still gets home, and even with cornerback issues, this number screams “too high.” The Panthers have been a tough out at home all year aside from last week’s short-circuited showing.

The Rams’ offense looks unstoppable—until they land in a bad scheduling spot like this against a team that can muddy it up. Los Angeles' defense is elite, yes, but the Panthers don’t have to win the game; they have to stay inside a tax-inflated number. The market is treating L.A. like the NFC version of Baltimore while ignoring that Carolina’s profile is riddled with close-loss variance. This is not the week to buy the Rams. It is the week to hold your nose and take the ugly dog at home.

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