Bye weeks are a tricky notion, especially for a team on a four-game winning streak and playing two of its best games of the season back-to-back leading into the time off. Maybe you don't want to break. Not now.

"No. No, no, no," veteran running back James Conner said with a smile. "This is the perfect time."

After 10 games, a break is needed. And necessary. Besides, the way Jonathan Gannon has built this roster and this infrastructure, it shouldn't be a problem either. (The coach has said he doesn't believe in momentum anyway, so one week off after the 31-6 dismantling of the Jets Sunday shouldn't be a thing.)

Kyler Murray, for instance, emphasized that "football will be on my mind" all week. Asked if his teammates should avoid any bye week trips, the quarterback wasn't going to go that far.

"If you do get away, you have to be smart, put the team first and understand we do this for a living," Murray said. "I know the guys are always on my mind. Whatever I do, I put them first."

There is still work Monday, but it wouldn't be a surprise for Jonathan Gannon to make the rest of the week off for his team. (They have to be off Thursday through Sunday, as mandated by the CBA.) The Cards have earned whatever they get, with the way they have surged to the top of the division and doing it playing the way they have.

The accolades are going to start to come. Multiple media members were mentioning Kyler getting into the MVP race and/or his spot among the top 5 QBs in the league. Tight end Trey McBride has an argument to be in the top 3 – or 2 – at his position. The defense has been magnificent of late, a unit that took shots from everywhere but has been what the Cardinals have needed when they needed it.

Yet, no one should expect the Cardinals to get out of their lane. The crucial part of what Gannon has constructed is that it can withstand the bad and the good without veering from the process in place.

"Whatever our record is right now, we're going to get a little bit of rest but the most important thing we do is probably (Monday)," Gannon said. "We're going to learn from this tape and then they're going to get a little bit of rest, and then it's on to Seattle."

-- McBride. What a monster. That third-and-7 catch-and-run-and-hurdle … *chef's kiss*

"He's elite with the ball in his hands," Gannon said. "I keep telling you guys this and no one believes me. The guy is elite with the ball in his hands. He can jump over you, he can break tackles, he can run by you, he can make you miss, and he's a big guy that runs really fast with good contact balance and he's hard to bring down. From day one (with) the passing game, he's a guy that the passing game's going to go through."

-- Sunday was the first time I've ever heard of a buttcheek being the official reason – given over the mic by the referee – for an overturn. But there we all were in the first quarter, hearing about James Conner's backside and turning a 45-yard screen catch-and-run into a 44-yarder. Kyler lost the TD pass, Conner got the TD back when he ran both his buttcheeks in cleanly two plays later.

-- The Cardinals scored a TD on their opening drive for the first time since doing it every week from Weeks 1-5.

-- Baron Browning's debut was limited, but the new outside linebacker did provide a pressure on Aaron Rodgers on the Jets' first drive, leading to an incompletion on third down and forcing a field goal.

-- Another good game from Marvin Harrison Jr. That TD catch, his sixth of the season, was what stars are made of.

-- Along with everything else, Kyler Murray surpassed Jake Plummer for the third-most passing yards in franchise history. Now he trails only Jim Hart and Neil Lomax.

-- Budda Baker was praised big-time early in the week by Aaron Rodgers. Then he went and was awesome. Three tackles for loss and his first sack of the season. Rodgers said he had to watch out for Budda. He was right.

-- The Cardinals have scored 28, 29, and 31 points the last three games.

-- Murray had as many rushing touchdowns as incompletions (22 of 24 passing) in the game. His 91.7 completion percentage was the best in the NFL this season.

-- Trey Benson looking better and better and better. I thought the rookie running back was going to house one or two of his runs, and he's got the talent to do so. He had 62 yards on 10 carries.

-- The last word, fittingly, will go to Murray, who was asked about how he feels at the bye and the Cardinals sitting 6-4.

"Not satisfied. I told y'all last week, I feel like our record could be better than this. I feel like I expected to be here. I feel like the team expected to be here. We just have to keep going."

That's all for tonight.