Bruce Arians’ Super Renaissance

Photo by Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images Whether you believe that former Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians was urged in 2017 by Michael Bidwill to retire or whether he was complying with his lovely wife Christine’s urgent pleas for him to stop playing “no risk-it, no biscuit” with his health —- by now —- it is a moot point.

As Cardinals’ fans well know, for Bruce Arians’ first three years as the head coach in Arizona he became the incarnation of Buddy Ryan’s old unfulfilled self-prophesy of “you finally have a winner in town.”

Arians, with his sharp bravado, swept the organization, the Red Sea and the Arizona media off their feet, literally and figuratively.

But, as we also know, by year four…