2008 Record: 9-7 Were the Arizona Cardinals really the best team in the NFC last year? Or were they a decent team that caught fire at the right now? I\u2019ll take the former.<\/p>\n The Cardinals finished the season just 9-7 but six of their wins came against their three division mates, who combined for just 13 wins. And the Cardinals couldn\u2019t even win a road game outside of their division.<\/p>\n Like many of the NFC teams that have made the Super Bowl this decade, the Cardinals are bound to come back down to Earth this year. On offense, they return the same unit but quarterback Kurt Warner is a year older and there are still question marks in regards to the running game. Is Beanie Wells the answer? Can Tim Hightower carry the load?<\/p>\n Warner put up monster numbers in a contract year last season while playing in all 16 games. Keep in mind that it was the first time that Warner made it through a full season since 2001.<\/p>\n On both sides of the ball, the Cardinals will have to deal with lots of losses on the sidelines. Both offensive and defensive coordinators are gone as well as many assistants.<\/p>\n The Cardinals also lost some personnel on defense, including guys like Rod Hood and Antonio Smith. Although that\u2019s not major, when you combined that with some of their disgruntled stars, like Anquan Boldin and Darnell Dockett, both of whom want new contracts, it just lays more ominous seeds.<\/p>\n The Cardinals did play well in the playoffs but the general consensus is that they overachieved. With lots of changes to deal with heading into this season, combined with the fact that the entire NFC West division will be stronger and the Cardinals should go back to being their typical, below .500 selves.<\/p>\n Super Bowl Odds: +3300<\/strong><\/p>\n Conference Odds: +1500<\/p>\n NFC South Odds: +140<\/p>\n 2009 Cardinals Predictions <\/strong><\/p>\n Place they\u2019ll finish in NFC West: 2nd<\/p>\n Place they\u2019ll finish in NFC Conference: 12th<\/p>\n Over\/Under Season Wins Prediction: Under 8.5<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Dave Golokhov has written for <\/strong>BETUS Sportsbook, Sportsfanmagazine.com, FOX, Askmen.com, Sports-central.org, and the FOXSports.com Funhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s another season making NFL previews and Super Bowl predictions for the Arizona Cardinals. Check back for more comprehensive NFL previews by Dave Golokhov, he’ll be bringing you NFL season previews for all 32 NFL teams! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[41,16711,16712,9235,16713,16714,266,16715,16716,16717,16718,16719,802,1618,14998,14999],"class_list":["post-12646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-41","tag-2009-arizona-cardinals-odds","tag-2009-cardinals-predictions","tag-arizona-cardinals-gambling","tag-arizona-cardinals-predictions","tag-arizona-cardinals-preview","tag-cardinals","tag-cardinals-betting-lines","tag-cardinals-nfc-conference-odds","tag-cardinals-nfc-west-odds","tag-cardinals-season-predictions","tag-cardinals-super-bowl-odds","tag-nfl-betting","tag-nfl-futures","tag-overunder-season-wins","tag-season-wins-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109020,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12646\/revisions\/109020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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