Which team will win the football game between Arizona Cardinals and the St. Louis Rams

In another close game that some of the sportsbooks are not giving up any points this week is the matchup between the Arizona Cardinals and the St. Louis Rams. Taking a look at the odds at lunch time, (only a few hours before the game) the spread at Bet Online is zero points but William Hill has the line at the Cardinals as 1.5 point favorites. Let’s take a quick look at this and whether Arizona can make the spread.

These two are in 3rd and 4th places in the NFC West and both have seen their playoff hopes disappear in recent weeks. Nothing either of them do can change that. The record at St. Louis is 3 wins 6 losses and 1 tie with the record at Arizona is 4 and 6.

Just because they have no hope for any game play after the end of regular season doesn’t mean they aren’t ready to play or to win. I actually think it might be somewhat of an interesting game. I don’t think either one of them wants to walk out of the stadium and not say they didn’t give it their best.

Neither team will want to be known as the team that couldn’t win against their worst rivals in the conference this late in the season. But only one of them can come out of this game as the winner and I think it will be the Cardinals.

Yes Arizona will be playing a rookie quarterback in his first NFL start, but with Kevin Kolb injured and John Skelton on the bench Ryan Lindley might just actually surprise a number of people. As a rookie he may be prone to making mistakes that young passers do, but he has to get experience at some point and this is the perfect game for him to do so.

I think the biggest hurdle that the Cardinals face will be protecting Lindley and giving him the time to find his receivers. They have almost no running game so they will have to depend on him making the completions.

Their defenses are actually pretty closely matched and I think this game will depend a lot on how well either defense does. The Rams will be looking to pick off Lindley but they may find that will be more difficult than originally planned.

While the Rams have possession of the football, they will have to contend with Daryl Washington as well as a number of other defenders and I look for Washington to have a big game today.

I think this game will be decided by the defense, and the amount of mistakes made by either quarterback. Who will throw the least amount of interceptions, which will make fewer mistakes, and how well the defenses can read their opponents.

I am actually picking the Cardinals to win this game by 2 points and I admit that it is quite a stretch.

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