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receiver back to the NFC West.The Cardinals had expected to sign Crabtree
earlier this month after a positive workout with the team. Instead, Crabtree
didn¡¯t settle for the terms offered to him at the time and elected to remain
unsigned. Whatever hurdles were in the way to keep Crabtree from agreeing to a
deal at the start of the month now appear to have been cleared.The interest in
Crabtree makes sense. He played in Mike Leach¡¯s Air Raid system at Texas Tech a
few years after Kliff Kingsbury¡¯s was the quarterback at the school. He¡¯s an NFL
veteran that has familiarity with the system Kingsbury has brought to Arizona
and helps add some experience to a wide receiver group lacking it outside of
Larry Fitzgerald.Crabtree,
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Francisco 49ers in 2013.The 10th overall choice in 2009, Crabtree played six
seasons with the 49ers before going across the Bay to Oakland for three
seasons.He has 633 career catches for 7,477 yards and 54 touchdowns.The
Cardinals announced an agreement with Crabtree on a one-year deal. With one game
left in the regular
season
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expected to be. And the Raiders have proven to be a lot worse.According to the
betting site Bovada, the 11-4 Bears are an NFL-high five games over the
preseason over-under betting total set by the Vegas oddsmakers. The 3-11 Raiders
are an NFL-worst five games under their preseason win total, heading into Monday
night¡¯s game.It¡¯s no secret that the Khalil Mack trade was a part of that, with
Mack going from the Raiders to the Bears just before the start of the season.
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worse
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into the Bears¡¯ other personnel moves, as well as the build-for-the-future
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that did particularly well compared to its preseason over-under lines was New
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four games better than its preseason over-under. After the Raiders, the two
teams that did worst compared to preseason expectations were the Packers and
Jaguars, who are both four wins below their preseason over-unders.