The Arizona Cardinals have lost three straight games and have fallen to 6-7 on the season entering Week 15 after their most recent 30-18 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. They are in third place in the NFC West and only “in the mix” in the NFC playoff picture.
With four games to go, they have a tough road and it is made more difficult by the fact that they keep losing tiebreakers.
Four teams in the NFC playoff race hold head-to-head tiebreakers over the Cardinals:
- Washington Commanders
- Green Bay Packers
- Minnesota Vikings
- Seattle Seahawks
The Vikings no longer matter because, with 11 wins, the Cardinals cannot catch them in the wild card race. They now have a max of 10 wins possible.
The Cardinals now must finish with an outright better record than Seattle to win the division.
They must finish with a better record than Washington or Green Bay to be a wild card team over them.
Green Bay already has nine wins, so they can’t win again if the Cardinals are to pass them, and Washington has eight, so they can only win one more with the Cardinals winning their final four.
With upcoming games against the L.A. Rams and San Francisco 49ers, both of whom the Cardinals beat earlier this season, they have the chance to own head-to-head tiebreakers over them, should that come into play.
But unfortunately, the five losses to those four teams will complicate their postseason hopes tremendously.
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