GLENDALE, Ariz. – You can cancel all the Jets playoff talk. It’s officially trial season for Gang Green.

The Cardinals embarrassed the Jets, 31-6, on Sunday at State Farm Stadium, dropping the Jets to 3-7 and erasing any happy talk that surrounded the team after last week’s win over the Texans.

It was a debacle in the desert.

The Jets showed that the win over Houston was just a tease to get Jets fans hoping and believing again that this team would end the playoff drought that now seems destined to reach fourteen consecutive seasons .

Yes, the Jets won’t be mathematically eliminated and you can still push and pull schedule permutations to make them a playoff team, but who would do that after this performance?

Should we start with the offense that was allergic to the end zone?

Or would you rather talk about the overhyped, overconfident defense that couldn’t tackle and gave up touchdowns of 70, 70, 70 and 83 yards?

The Cardinals are now 6-4 and this was their fourth win in a row. They are a respectable team sitting in first place in the NFC West. But the Jets made them look like the 1972 Dolphins.

Kyler Murray rushed for two touchdowns while throwing for 266 yards and a touchdown. The Jets worried all week about stopping the rushing attack led by James Conner, but Arizona completely trashed the Jets’ vaunted secondary. The Cardinals scored on their first five possessions and didn’t punt until the fourth quarter.

The Cardinals had 239 yards and 18 first downs in the first half. The Cardinals finished with 406 yards in the game and 28 first downs.

The Jets, on the other hand, could barely move the ball and when they did, they staggered in the red zone. They had 85 yards and no touchdowns in the first half.

Aaron Rodgers only threw for 40 yards in the half. Davante Adams had zero catches on two targets.

Rodgers finished with 151 passing yards on 22 of 35 passing with no touchdowns. Whatever the Jets offense thought it could find in the second half against Houston, it didn’t make the trip west.

It was clear from the start which way this would go. The Cardinals moved the ball with ease on the first series. It appeared the Cardinals scored a 45-yard touchdown on a short pass from Murray to Conner who ran back down the sideline and avoided a tackle by Jets safety Jalen Mills.

It was initially ruled a 45-yard touchdown, but replay showed Conner standing just short of the goal line. The overturned play only delayed the touchdown by a few minutes. Conner executed it two plays later to give the Cardinals a 7-0 lead.

The Jets offense answered with an 11-play drive, but couldn’t reach the end zone. They were stopped at the Cardinals’ 7-yard line and new kicker Spencer Shrader kicked a 25-yard field goal, the first of his career.

The ugly first half for the Jets defense continued, with Arizona marching 70 yards in nine plays in their second series. They reached the 1-yard line with help from a DJ Reed pass interference penalty in the end zone. On third and goal from the 1, Murray faked the handoff and ran down the left side for a touchdown and a 14-3 lead.

Shrader made his second field goal of the day, a 45-yarder early in the second quarter, to cut the deficit to 14-6.

The Jets defense seemed to have no answers for the Cardinals. Murray connected with Marvin Harrison Jr. for a 9-yard touchdown to go up 21-3 with 5:44 left in the first half. This came after two third down completions to tight end Trey McBride on the drive.

On the first, Sauce Gardner failed to tackle McBride, allowing him to gain 15 yards and the first down. Then Murray hit McBride for a 13-yard gain on third-and-10, putting the ball at the Jets 9. This came after Jets linebacker Quincy Williams absolutely drilled Murray as an unblocked blitzer, knocking Murray’s helmet off. Somehow the blow didn’t bother him.

The Cardinals added a field goal just before halftime to take a 24-6 lead at halftime. Chad Ryland made the 37-yarder.

Last week against the Texans, the Jets trailed at halftime, then found some halftime magic and scored three second-half touchdowns to win the game.

It looked like the Jets had found that same halftime magic again until it disappeared. The Jets opened the second half with the ball and got help from the Cardinals when Garrett Williams was flagged for pass interference on third down, erasing an interception and giving the Jets a first down at midfield. The Jets moved the ball to the Arizona 3.

Rodgers threw two incompletions on passes intended for Adams and then fumbled on fourth-and-goal when he was sacked by Xavier Thomas. The fumble was recovered by Cardinals linebacker Kyzir White.

The Cardinals did what they had been doing all day after getting the ball back: embarrassed the Jets defense. Murray moved the Cardinals 88 yards in 10 plays, including a ridiculous pass to a wide-open McBride for a first down. Murray capped it off by running through the Jets defense for a 12-yard touchdown, the exclamation point on a pathetic performance by the Jets.

The Jets now return home to take on the Colts for their bye week. Maybe they’ll win that game, but this time they won’t fool anyone into believing it. Bring on the fake designs.