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Any Given Sunday: 49ers over Cardinals

By Vince Verhei
Football Outsiders

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Any Given Sunday is a Football Outsiders story that will recur throughout the 2009 NFL season, focusing on the most surprising result of each NFL weekend. For Week 1, they focus on the San Francisco 49ers' defeating the defending NFC champion Arizona Cardinals. Just 5.6 wins. After 10,000 simulations of Football Outsiders' preseason projection system, that was the average win total for the 2009 Arizona Cardinals. It caused great controversy among our readers, and even among our staff, wh ...

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