As fast as the NFL season always seems to fly by, it’s important to emember that the full, 16-game regular season is, indeed, a marathon and not a sprint.
Unless you're the 3-7-1 Cardinals, who went back to work on Monday following a week off.
Coach Kliff Kingsbury issued a directive to his coaching staff and the players upon their return from the bye and it was as a simple and as short as the remainder of their schedule:
"We want to treat it like its own season," Kingsbury said of Arizona's final five games, which includes a date with the Rams on Sunday in the first of three straight home games at State Farm Stadium.