{"id":401655,"date":"2025-09-27T18:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/401655\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:25:12","slug":"confidence-in-the-arizona-cardinals-was-gone-before-the-game-even-started-so-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/401655\/","title":{"rendered":"Confidence in the Arizona Cardinals was gone before the game even started\u2026 so now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Saturday one and all.<\/p>\n

The Arizona Cardinals sit at 2-2 and are 0-2 within the division. Their two losses are by a combined four-points, and both losses came as time expired.<\/p>\n

So, to say they are close is an understatement.<\/p>\n

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However, as the old saying goes, close only counts in horseshoes and grenades, and the Cardinals are trying to win in the NFL.<\/p>\n

Before the game kicked off, I made a call to wait to release this weeks confidence poll until after the game concluded, because I wanted to see how different the perception or reality would be after the game against the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n

Now, it will be even more interesting as only 18% of the Cardinals fans are confident in the direction of the team.<\/p>\n

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For a team that was 2-1 and the loss came at the last second against a divisional rival, that is low, especially with what we have seen around the NFL this year.<\/p>\n

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However, coming out of the game, you have to imagine it will fall to single digits at this point.<\/p>\n

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Cardinals fans and fans across the country.\u00a0Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Saturday one and all. The Arizona Cardinals sit at 2-2 and are 0-2 within the division. Their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,2604,1327,69388,7,6,261,69389],"class_list":{"0":"post-401655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizonacardinals","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-close-only-counts-in-horseshoes","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-seattle-seahawks","16":"tag-understatement"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115277668350069030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}