With Bruce Arians leading the team to three 10+ win seasons in a row from 2013-2015, things all began to unravel when Arians decided that building his own coaching tree amongst his hand picked cronies was of paramount importance.
One thing that the Cardinals are horrible at—-and the main reason why they simply cannot maintain a modicum of year to year success—-is foresight.
Example 1: how could the Cardinals possibly imagine building a dominant 34 defense passing the DC baton from Todd Bowles to James Bettcher (3 years into the league with no experience coordinating a defense)—-and somehow think along the way that they could readily replace Calais Campbell, who was in many ways the most valuable player (stalwart vs.