When it’s over, when you begin the painful process of tracing a team that was once on the ascent back to the moment when it all went wrong, it is often a process filled with hundreds of hidden, microscopic moments. An autopsy that takes place over years and, in the end, concludes in the unsatisfactory revelation that other teams have more good players.
But if the Cardinals fail to recover from Sunday’s loss to the Titans—much in the way last year’s Hail Mary win by the Commanders over the Bears completely rerouted the trajectory of two franchises, due in part to the comical manner in which Chicago lost with a defender completely turned away from the play in progress—the moment(s) will be pretty obvious.
