The NFL is full of thieves. They will steal your signals, read your lips, and pick through your garbage cans. Lessons are learned early: If you want to keep something in this league, you better nail it down.
The Cardinals are dealing with another kind of football larceny. Their identity has been stolen twice in six weeks, in disappointing losses to the Rams and the Steelers. They are a first-place team and they are repeat victims, a contradiction that must be reconciled immediately.
What exactly ails this group? Is it mountains or molehills, simple focus or deeper issues?