MNF Week 12: San Francisco 49ers vs Arizona Cardinals | 49ers win 27-6

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Week 12 – San Francisco 49ers vs Arizona Cardinals
When: 8:30 PM ET, November 29, 2010
Venue: U of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, AZ

49ers (3-7) vs Cardinals (3-7) Preview

The San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals have two of the worst records in the league. By playing in the NFL’s worst division, however, they’re each still in the thick of the playoff race.

The 49ers and Cardinals look to bounce back from embarrassing defeats and avoid falling any further out of first place in the NFC West when they meet for the first time this season Monday night in Arizona.

Many picked San Francisco (3-7) to win the West prior to the start of this season after the Cardinals (3-7) won the division each of the previous two years, but neither is looking much like a playoff contender.

The 49ers, who haven’t been to the playoffs since 2002, opened with five consecutive losses and are coming off last Sunday’s 21-0 defeat to Tampa Bay. San Francisco managed a season-low 189 yards and 11 first downs — two via penalties — in getting shut out at home for the first time since 1977.

Arizona also didn’t play well in last Sunday’s 31-13 loss to Kansas City, its fifth consecutive defeat. The Cardinals got their only touchdown, a 3-yard catch by Larry Fitzgerald, on the final play of the game.

Despite all of San Francisco and Arizona’s problems, they are just two games back of first-place Seattle in the West.

The 49ers swept the season series from the Cardinals in 2009 and are seeking their first three-game winning streak in the series since 2003-04. (Source Preview: ESPN)

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1 2 3 4 Total San Francisco 14 7 3 3 27 FINAL Arizona 3 3 0 0 6

GAME RECAP

Brian Westbrook rushed for 136 yards and a touchdown in place of the injured Frank Gore and the San Francisco 49ers sent punchless Arizona to its sixth straight loss, 27-6 Monday night in a shower of boos from the Cardinals home crowd.

Westbrook, who had nine yards in five carries all season, carried 23 times in his 21st career 100-yard game, but first since Dec. 7, 2008, for Philadelphia against the New York Giants.

San Francisco (4-7), beaten at home by Tampa Bay 21-0 last week, improved to 3-1 since Troy Smith became starting quarterback and pulled within a game of co-leaders St. Louis and Seattle in the anemic NFC West.

Arizona (3-8), two-time defending division champion, has not lost this many in a row since dropping eight straight in 2006, Dennis Green’s final season as coach. (Source)