A couple weeks ago, I wrote a piece declaring that the Cardinals didn’t look like a playoff team. I stand by that statement, in a vacuum. This just doesn’t look like a contending roster to me right now.
But the Cardinals don’t play in a vacuum, they play in the NFC, where 7 out of 16 teams (44%) make the playoffs. Keeping in mind that there is always somewhere around 50% turnover of playoff teams from one season to the next, if the Cardinals are going to miss the playoffs, as I contended, another team is going to have to take their spot.