Bye weeks are a tough idea, especially for a team that has won four straight games and is playing two of its best games of the season back-to-back before the 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.”

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

For example, Kyler Murray emphasized that I will be thinking about football all week. When asked if his teammates should avoid bye week trips, the quarterback didn’t want to go that far.

“If you’re going to get away, you have to be smart, put the team first and understand that we do this for a living,” Murray said. “I know I always think about the boys. Whatever I do, I put them first.”

There’s still work to be done on Monday, but it wouldn’t be a surprise for Jonathan Gannon to free up the rest of the week for his team. (They must be off Thursday through Sunday, as mandated by the CBA.) The Cards deserved what they got with the way they rose to the top of the division and did it the way they did have done.

The accolades will start to come. Multiple media members mentioned Kyler being in the MVP race and/or his spot among the top 5 QBs in the league. Tight end Trey McBride has a case for being in the top 3 – or 2 – at his position. The defense has been stellar lately, a unit shooting from everywhere, but that’s what the Cardinals needed when they needed it.

Still, no one should expect the Cardinals to shy away. The crucial part of what Gannon has constructed is that it can withstand the bad And the good without deviating from the existing process.

“Whatever our record is right now, we’re going to rest a little bit, but the most important thing we’re doing is probably (Monday),” Gannon said. “We’re going to learn from this band and then they’ll get a little rest, and then we’ll move on to Seattle.”

— McBride. What a monster. That third and seventh catch-and-run-and-hurdle… *chef’s kiss*

“He’s elite with the ball in his hands,” Gannon said. “I keep telling you this and no one believes me. The man is elite with the ball in his hands. He can jump over you, he can break tackles, he can run past you, he can make you miss, and he is a big guy who runs really fast with good contact balance and he’s hard to bring down (with) the passing game, he’s a guy that the passing game goes through.”

— Sunday was the first time I ever heard that a butt was the official reason – given over the microphone by the referee – for a turnover. But that’s where we all were in the first quarter, hearing about James Conner’s back end and turning a 45-yard catch-and-run into a 44-yarder. Kyler lost the TD pass, Conner got the TD back when he ran cleanly with both glutes two plays later.

— The Cardinals scored a TD on their opening drive for the first time since they did this every week from Weeks 1 through 5.

Baron Browning’s debut was limited, but the rookie outside linebacker did put 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 received high praise from Aaron Rodgers early this week. Then he went and was great. Three tackles for loss and his first sack of the season. Rodgers told him to keep an eye on Budda. He was right.

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

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

— Trey Benson just keeps looking better and better. I thought the starting running back was going to house one or two of his runs, and he has the talent to do that. He had 62 yards on 10 carries.

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

“Not satisfied. I told you guys last week that 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 have to just keep going.”