{"id":11445,"date":"2010-12-11T02:45:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T07:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11445"},"modified":"2010-12-11T02:45:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T07:45:57","slug":"cardinals-broncos-football-game-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/cardinals-broncos-football-game-predictions-11445\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals Broncos Football Game Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denver Broncos at Arizona Cardinals, University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, AZ
\nSunday, December 12, 2010, 4:15 pm EST, TV: CBS
\nOpening Line: Broncos -6
\nCurrent Line: Broncos -4
\nOpening Total: 43
\nCurrent Total: 42.5
\nMoney Line: Broncos -210 \/ Cardinals +165<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Cardinals
Knowshon Moreno has become a bigger part of Denver's offense over the last month<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Denver Broncos (3-9) will try to follow in the footsteps of Minnesota and Dallas by winning the debut of their new head coach when they visit the slumping Arizona Cardinals (3-9) on Sunday.\u00a0 The Broncos (-4) have not been much better than the Cardinals, who have lost their last seven games.\u00a0 Denver has dropped seven of eight but could get a boost now that head coach Josh McDaniels has been relieved of his duties.<\/p>\n

The Vikings and Cowboys both won their first two games under new coaches following similar struggles, and former Broncos running backs coach Eric Studesville will get that same opportunity after his team has lost 17 of 22 games since a 6-0 start last season.\u00a0 Studesville will allow offensive coordinator Mike McCoy to call the plays, and insiders believe there will not be a dramatic change without McDaniels on the sideline.<\/p>\n

The Denver offense has made an effort to become more balanced over the last month, and a lot of that has to do with the health of running back Knowshon Moreno.\u00a0 The second-year player was battling a hamstring injury the first half of the season but has topped the century mark in rushing yards two of the last four games, including a season-high 161 yards last week.\u00a0 The other two games during that stretch were blowout losses and required Moreno to be more of a receiver than a runner.<\/p>\n

Quarterback Kyle Orton is coming off his worst game of the season for the Broncos in a 10-6 loss at Kansas City last week.\u00a0 Orton briefly led the NFL in passing yards but fell to fourth after throwing for 117 on 9 of 28 attempts against the Chiefs.\u00a0 He had averaged over 307 passing yards in the previous four games, throwing nine touchdowns and two interceptions.<\/p>\n

Arizona\u2019s biggest problem this season has directly involved who has been under center.\u00a0 Things have gotten so bad that head coach Ken Whisenhunt is starting third-string rookie John Skelton for the first time.\u00a0 The Cardinals have not scored a touchdown in their last eight quarters \u2013 all at home \u2013 totaling just four field goals against division foes San Francisco and St. Louis.<\/p>\n

The UNDER has cashed in the last three games for Arizona, and the team has failed to cover each of their past four.\u00a0 Denver has won the last five meetings with the Cardinals, going 4-1 against the spread with the total going OVER in all five games.<\/p>\n

If you are betting this football game between the Cardinals & Broncos, be sure to check out the winning NFL picks packages we offer.\u00a0 You can also get free winners on our free NFL picks page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Denver Broncos at Arizona Cardinals, University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, AZ Sunday, December 12, 2010, 4:15 pm EST, TV: CBS Opening Line: Broncos -6 Current Line: Broncos -4 Opening Total: 43 Current Total: 42.5 Money Line: Broncos -210 \/ Cardinals +165 The Denver Broncos (3-9) will try to follow in the footsteps of Minnesota and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":4195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[646,4106,570,2539,2508,1930,1922],"class_list":["post-11445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-cardinals-broncos-preview","tag-denver-broncos","tag-football-betting","tag-free-nfl-pick","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11446,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445\/revisions\/11446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}