Bruce Arians stood in front of the players who authored one of the NFL’s best one-year turnarounds of the last decade and lit a fire that extinguished any hint of complacency.
So what if the Cardinals jumped from five wins in 2012 before Arians arrived to 10 in 2013? No Super Bowl, no good, he believed.
And just like that, the bar for the future was raised.
“You embrace the level of expectation,” Arians told The Post. “If you are a good coach, you will keep building on the momentum and raising expectation levels — that what we did last year wasn’t good enough. It really doesn’t matter what others expect because we expected a Super Bowl. To make it to the playoffs, or to win two playoff games and lose, we were going to be pissed.”
