Last season, after the Arizona Cardinals beat the Buffalo Bills on DeAndre Hopkins' Hail Mary, they were 6-3. They finished 8-8 and missed the playoffs.
When people ripped head coach Kliff Kingsbury this offseason, it was because of that late-season fade. All of that criticism seemed meaningless when the Cardinals started this season 10-2. The Cardinals were fantastic. Kingsbury was a Coach of the Year candidate. Another late-season collapse? No way.
Not so fast.
The Cardinals lost last Monday night and while that was a damaging loss, it was excusable. What happened Sunday was not.