My cardinal brain says 11-6. My real brain says 12-5. A team has shown us 4-0, and I’ve always been of the mindset “when someone shows you who they are, believe it.” If we were 4-0 by fluke I’d back off the optimism. But other than minnys missed FG we have flat out won these games. That means finishing the season 8-5 shouldn’t be an unreasonable mountain to climb.
My Rams friend keeps saying, "Cardinals should have lost that one, the Vikings missed an easy kick."
I point out all of the easy plays the Cardinals screwed up on. Want to read something funny? Go read the mental gymnastics Rams fans are doing. If Stafford doesn't throw that pick, Michel doesn't fumble, and Stafford throws 5-6 passes better, the Rams would've won that game.
You watch the NFL enough and you realize that teams sometimes have these runs of a few lucky bounces. Remember the Bears team that went 13-3 and came back big on Denny Green's Cardinals? That team was the luckiest team I've ever seen, they must have won 7 games that year that were close and they were outplayed but got a lucky bounce.
So far the Cardinals have a +55 point differential through week 4, second best in the league behind Buffalo. The Bills have beaten Washington, Miami, and the Texans, three teams that aren't very good. Some might argue that Miami and Washington aren't terrible but let's not kid ourselves, those are bad football teams. So they have played teams that they should beat up.
The Cardinal's schedule is pretty difficult, but I can say it's reasonable to expect at least 6 more wins over the next 13 games. That puts the team at 10-7. If we are more optimistic, tack on 3 more wins and that's still not even crazy after how this team has performed.
