Arizona
Arizona Cardinals enter Week 13 with minute chance at making playoffs
The Arizona Cardinals are nowhere near reaching their 2022 expectations 12 video games into the season.
Sitting at 4-8 following one other disappointing dwelling loss this previous Sunday, the solar has appeared to set on this Cardinals workforce. If the season resulted in Week 12, Arizona would maintain the No. 7 decide within the 2023 NFL Draft. Solely 4 groups have gained fewer video games than the Cardinals up up to now.
However whereas the Cardinals’ trajectory is trending downward heading into the bye week, they technically nonetheless have a sliver of playoff hope.
Getting into Week 13 play, Arizona has a 1% probability at incomes a postseason berth, per FiveThirtyEight.
Regardless of the Los Angeles Rams sporting a worse report than the Cardinals, Sean McVay’s workforce really has extra of an opportunity to crack the playoffs at 3%.
The observe again to the postseason should come via the NFC Wild Card race from the seems of it, with Arizona sporting lower than a 1% probability to win the division.
And even when they did handle to go on a run, it’s seemingly too little, too late for head coach Kliff Kingsbury and Co.
If the Cardinals go on a heater and rip off five-straight victories to complete the yr and get to 9-8, the workforce’s playoff possibilities nonetheless sit at simply 39%. Divisional hopes enhance ever so barely to 1%.
But when they lose simply one of many subsequent 5 video games, Arizona’s postseason hopes keep bleak.
Wins over the remaining three NFC groups and one of many two AFC squads left on the docket offers the Cardinals a 4-5% probability at getting again to the playoffs. Any loss to both the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Atlanta Falcons and San Francisco 49ers, nevertheless, drops the Cardinals right down to a 2% probability.
Heading into Week 13, the Cardinals sit three video games and a tiebreaker behind the 49ers within the division. When it comes to the NFC Wild Card, Arizona is three video games again from the Washington Commanders, with the Seattle Seahawks (6-5) nonetheless squarely within the hunt.
