Cardinals visit the Panthers in the NFC

I guess it’s quite clear now that the Cardinals like the underdog role.

Some people claim that the Arizona Cardinals are the biggest underdogs in the 2009 NFL playoffs. With a disappointing 0-5 mark in the Eastern time zone including blowouts at Philadelphia and New England, yes, I guess nobody expected the Cardinals to come this far.

The Arizona Cardinals lost four of their last six regular season games in what has been a downward spiral that probably led to Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner losing out on the chance of winning this year’s MVP trophy. For them to still be right in the middle of things in the postseason was a work of magic on their part.

Before facing the Carolina Panthers in round two, the Cardinals had to beat the visiting Atlanta Falcons and cool off one of the hottest teams in the league this year. And even though the Cards’ were playing at home, they were still deemed as two-point underdogs to the visitors.

Was that disrespect? Do people refuse to give this Arizona Cardinals team enough credit? As far as the Cards’ are concerned, they could care less. Adopting the ‘’we didn’t get any respect’’ tag with a special zeal, Arizona covered the spread easily and won the game 30-24.

The Cardinals, just like last week, will once again be the underdogs, this time 10-point underdogs, to the Panthers in the NFC divisional playoffs. And if the Cardinals love being the underdog, knowing the fact that people are expecting them to lose to Carolina by ten should be more than enough to motivate them for this weekend’s big face-off.

Of course, it’ll be awfully harder for Arizona to pull off another playoff win, especially with their premier receiver Anquan Boldin questionable for this one.

To win their divisional playoff encounter with Carolina, the Cardinals will need to prove they can win in the East. During the last six years, they have put up a miserable 2-19 mark in the Eastern time zone. This season, they didn’t win anything there, going 0-5 this season.

Can the Cardinals defy the odds again? There’s only one way to find out.

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