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Arizona Cardinals vs Carolina Panthers NFL Playoffs NFC Divisional Game

by Abe Luciano on Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Arizona Cardinals (9-7) vs. Carolina Panthers (12-4) NFL Playoffs NFC Divisional Game: Bank of America Stadium will be the sight for this NFL Playoffs NFC Divisional Game between the NFC West champions, Arizona Cardinals, taking on the NFC South winners, Carolina Panthers. All the action for this highly anticipated NFL Playoffs NFC Divisional Game contest is set to commence tonight at 8:15 PM ET (5:15 PM PT), and it can be seen nationwide on FOX.

Odds-makers at SBGglobal.com work diligently around the clock to post the best Sports Odds for this NFL Playoffs NFC Divisional Game.

According to the experts, the Carolina Panthers are whopping -9½ point-favorites this evening when they take the field against the +9½ Sports Odds underdogs, Arizona Cardinals.

The Panthers look to improve to 9-0 at home by beating a Cardinals team that has struggled when visiting the East Coast.

This season, Carolina posted the best record in the NFC, which was due in large part by its undefeated home-mark. The last time the Panthers were undefeated at home dates all the way back to the 1996 season. However, this time around Carolina has achieved this feat in dominating fashion, defeating its opponents by an average margin of 15.4 points. The OVER/UNDER for this, Arizona Cardinals vs. Carolina Panthers NFL Playoffs NFC Divisional Game, has been set at a combined total of 48½ points.

For the Arizona Cardinals, playing on Eastern time has been quite contrasting than when playing out West. During the regular season, the Cards went 0-5 at: Washington Redskins, the New York Jets, Carolina Panthers, Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots. But the most alarming statistic here is that in those games they were defeated by an average margin of 20 points. Consequently, Arizona is just 2-20 in its last 22 games played in the Eastern-time zone.

But the fact that they're so underrated might easily be the Cardinals' best weapon. "A lot of people coming into this game said we were the worst playoff team ever to get in," coach Ken Whisenhunt said. "… I think we rallied around that."

"I hope this gives us a lot of confidence," quarterback Kurt Warner said. "I knew we thought we could win this game. Hopefully we can parlay this into some more confidence and know we can win wherever we have to go."

 

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