BetUS NFL Betting Odds: ARIZONA -3.5, Total 44.5
Arizona Cardinals (8-4 SU & ATS) at San Francisco 49ers (5-7 SU, 7-3-2 ATS)
Monday, December 14 – 8:30 PM ET
In the BetUS NFL betting odds, the Cardinals are listed as a 3.5-point favorite, with a posted total of 44.5 points.
Here are some NFL football betting trends as they relate to this matchup:
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ARIZ has won and covered four of the last five meetings
ARIZ has played seven of its last ten games UNDER the total
ARIZ has won and covered six of its last seven road games
ARIZ has played four of its last five road games UNDER the total
SF has lost six of its last eight games SU
SF has played four of its last six games UNDER the total
SF has covered four of its last six home games
SF has won seven of its last nine home games SU
SF has played four of its last six home games UNDER the total
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ARIZ has won six of the last nine meetings SU
Eight of the last 12 meetings have gone OVER the total
SF has won ten of the last 13 meetings SU as the home team 
Kurt Warner went into the weekend as a “game time” decision as to whether he was going to play against the Minnesota Vikings, and I guess it was a good thing for the Arizona Cardinals that he did. Warner was 22 of 32 for 285 yards and three TD passes, with no sacks, and he looked really good in the pocket, and Arizona won its seventh game in nine starts, both straight-up and in the NFL betting odds. Remember those people who looked at San Francisco’s 0-2 start and made them the favorite in the NFC West? I think they did so right here, in fact. Well, if the Cards can win on Monday night, they will clinch the division title and have a chance to go into the playoffs with as much momentum as anybody (save for New Orleans, if the Saints are undefeated).
Warner won’t have as many passing yards as he did last season, but he’s got 3003 right now, with 68% completions and 23 touchdowns. He also has the best set of receivers in football, and those receivers are bound to do better than the last time these teams met, in the season opener, when Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin had just eight catches and 90 yards between them.
A lot of people are applauding San Francisco “opening up the offense” a little more. Well, they are doing much more than that; they are doing a complete 180-degree turnaround, to the point where you’ve got to wonder why they got rid of Mike Martz in the first place. To accommodate Alex Smith, who to his credit has thrown seven TD passes with just one TD pass in the last three weeks, they have adopted a spread look, and last week against Seattle they threw the ball 45 times as opposed to just 12 rushing plays. That strategy produced 14 first downs, two touchdowns and one conversion in 13 attempts on third down. They just aren’t in good enough situations on third down, and while Michael Crabtree and Vernon Davis have proven their worth, they’ve dealt Frank Gore right out of the ballgame (25 yards last week). This is a complete departure from what Mike Singletary’s “philosophy” supposedly is.
The Cardinals’ pass rush is going to play a much bugger factor in this game that that of the Niners, and if San Francisco wants to be one-dimensional, that’s fine with Ken Whisenhunt. Warner is not going to lose a shootout to this team. We’ll go with Arizona, 5-1 SU and in the NFL betting odds on the road, and the 3.5-point favorite in the BetUS NFL betting odds.
OUR PLAY: ARIZONA -3.5 ***
