Somewhere inside the exquisite and improbable 10 seconds that it took Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins to create one of the NFL’s greatest Hail Mary plays, history got lost in the moment. That was natural, of course. Euphoric reverence rarely pauses for context. Instead, perspective is left for the aftermath when we have a little time to sort out what we’re witnessing.
And for the Arizona Cardinals, Sunday’s moment was a Hail Mary inside a Hail Mary.
Inside that picture frame: It was Murray to Hopkins and a leap that ultimately seized the top rung of the NFC West for the Cardinals.