Thursday, May 24th, 2012
The Arizona Cardinals will look to bounce back in the win column when they travel to the Windy City to face the Chicago Bears in an NFL football game on Sunday afternoon. Kick off time in Chicago is set for 1PM Eastern Time with regional television coverage provided by Fox. The LVSC NFL odds makers have set the opening point spread in this contest and the Chicago Bears opened as a 3 point favorite with the over under coming in at 45 ½. The early money from the NFL betting public has not moved the current line off the opening line of Chicago Bears –3. The total has seen movement towards the under, as the current over under is lined at 43 ½ for the NFL betting public to play into. NFL money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Chicago Bears at –140 with the road underdog Arizona Cardinals bringing back +120 to win straight up without the points a factor in the sports bet.
Arizona looks to bounce back after a bad loss at home 34-21 to the Carolina Panthers where they gave up 6 turnovers to the Panthers. Its amazing to think that the Carolina Panthers had a +6 turnover margin in this game and only won by 13 points. Kurt Warner threw 5 interceptions last week and was sacked twice and under duress all game. The Cardinals offensive line did not protect Warner very well. The Cardinals will have injury concerns in their receiving corps as Anquan Boldin tweaked an ankle and is questionable against Chicago. Cardinal’s rookie running back Beanie Wells produced another good game on Sunday with 47 rushing yards on 8 carries for 5.9 yards per carry average. Arizona came into the Carolina game with an outstanding rush defense but the Panthers were able to rush 44 times for 270 yards and 5.7 yards per carry on the Cardinals defense. The Bears broke a 2 game losing streak by beating Cleveland 30-6 last week. The Browns are inept on offense and cant score or move the ball on any NFL defense. Three of the four Bears wins have come against the very poor teams in the NFL in Seattle with a backup quarterback under center, Detroit and Cleveland. Starting quarterback Jay Cutler is hitting on 64% of his passes with 11 touchdowns and 11 interceptions on the season. Cutler has thrown 6 picks in his past 3 games. Running back Matt Forte continues to struggle on the ground producing just 90 yards on 26 carries for 3.5 yards per carry average against a bad Cleveland team. Forte is only averaging just 3.5 yards per carry this season. On the defensive side the Bears have been helter skelter with a mix off very good and very bad performances on the season. Two games back Carson Palmer and the talented Cincinnati Bengals offense torched the Bears defense for 45 points and 448 yards.
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NFL Trend: Arizona Cardinals are 3-0 ATS on the road this season
The Wagerline consensus has 52.3% of the NFL bettors on Arizona Cardinals +3
The Wagerline consensus has 63.9% of the NFL bettors playing over 43 1/2
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