Betting preview: Ravens -6 at Cardinals; Arizona season proposition bets & futures

Third chronologically among Sunday’s games is a cross-conference matchup with lines of

Baltimore Ravens -6 at Arizona Cardinals, over/under 38 points

And while we’re here, NFLbets will also consider the Arizona Cardinals odds in the following season props.

• over/under win total: 8½ (-110, -120)
• To miss the playoffs: -185
• to win NFC West: 4/1
• to win NFC: 20/1
• to win Super Bowl LVII: 40/1

The Cardinals’ would-be roster-breakers looked quite good at the Cincinnati Bengals in preseason week 1, scoring five times in a 36-23 win. Trace McSorley, a dude who got 10 passing attempts in three seasons with the Ravens, engineered four of the Arizona offense’s five TDs in the game. McSorley will be playing most of this game as well.

On the other side, the Ravens are riding an incredible and highly improbable preseason-game winning streak of 21 games – suffice to say, they’ve played with probably even more stripped-down squads than what they’re going with in this game, which is to say virtually no starters from the renegotiating Lamar Jackson and Mark Andrews on down. In fact, benching starters may work in the Ravens favor, with McSorley a veteran of Ravens’ practice squads and thus presumably familiar with the Ravens’ starters’ tactics and abilities.

From a purely subjective standard, this narrative for the 2022 Arizona Cardinals would not surprise NFLbets at all: The team that generates a lot of hype in the offseason (Look at what they’re dong without Kyler Murray! This bench could destroy the Rams’!), maybe even whips off a couple of convincing early upset wins (likesay, vs Kansas City Chiefs and at Las Vegas Raiders in weeks 1 and 2), yet still can’t manage the hit the over on an expected win total of 8½.

NFLbets figures Cardinals fans will be calling for Murray to be traded round about week 12 as Arizona closes out the season on an ugly losing streak – we’re already planning to play the money line on the 2-13 Atlanta Falcons in week 17. We’ve already figured that on average 50% of playoff teams do not repeat the following season; the 2022 Cardinals, we’re betting, are one of those.

But hey, at least that’s good news for McSorley.

Take Arizona +5½ vs Baltimore and under 8½ wins for the Cardinals, too.