In January of 2019, the Arizona Cardinals, coming off the exhilaration and hangover of the Bruce Arians era and the one year plunge to the rock bottom of the NFL in 2018, essentially, as an organization, pressed the reset button.
As Cardinals’ owner, Michael Bidwill, said in this month’s edition of the Cardinals Flight Plan, “Adversity doesn’t bring the character out in someone, it reveals it.”
Yes.
A million times, yes.
While Michael Bidwill, Steve Keim, Kliff Kingsbury and the Cardinals’ staff and players will tell you, the bulk of the heavy lifting in trying to lift the organization up into a new era of prominence remains in the days, weeks, months and years ahead of them—-the majority of all the transformative adaptations the Cardinals have made overt the past 16 months appears to have gotten the team on the fast track and pointed in the right direction.