Season-to-season momentum doesn’t really exist in the NFL.
Too much happens between the last game a team plays and the opening of training camp for each year not to spawn something new. Players change, new injuries happen – or heal – and the variables of the opposition week-to-week make it hard to draw a direct line between the end of one year and the beginning of the next.
That doesn’t mean a franchise can’t build stability. That stability leads to belief, and heading into the opening Friday of training camp at University of Phoenix Stadium, the Cardinals most certainly believe in themselves.