I don't know how I'd feel if they ended up 11-5 and didn't make the playoffs.
For those of us old enough to remember:
1964 go 5-0-1 last 6 games of the season and beat the Browns in the next to last game. Cards stay home Browns play for NFL title thanks to a stupid Cardinal tie with the Giants.
1970 Cards beat Dallas 20-7 and 38-0. Cards stay home, Dallas goes to the Super Bowl.
1976 Cards go 10-4 and lose out on playoffs in a tiebreaker with the Redskins.
Side note: Cards go 18-8-2 1963-64 and get nothing out of it other than making Lombardi mad because he had to play in the "playoff bowl" where the Cards kicked his ***
You gotta love Cardinal football.