GLENDALE — Off the rails is about the best way to describe the ending of the Arizona Cardinals’ 22-21 loss to the Tennessee Titans in Week 5.

After looking like the superior team through two quarters of play, having rid itself of lethargic offensive play and turning up the heat defensively, the Cardinals again played with their food and came up choking.

“We’re not coaching the details well enough.”

Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon on his team’s brutally slow collapse against a previously-winless Titans. pic.twitter.com/MC9dMDACkP

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“I think we coach the details, but we’re not coaching the details well enough. That’s ultimately what it comes down to,” head coach Jonathan Gannon said postgame. “(I) give them credit … they coached and played better than we did. That’s what the NFL is. I think our guys realize that but I did tell them (that) everybody in there from the staff, to the coaches to the players, to everybody in there, the clock is ticking.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a No. 1 overall pick, a Pro Bowl safety, a third-year head coach, a first-year assistant. It doesn’t matter. We have to do a better job and close out games.”

Again, the Cardinals failed to string together a consistent game offensively. But not like in previous games.

Coming out of the gates red hot, Arizona ripped off three scoring drives (all touchdowns) across its first four possessions.

Marvin Harrison Jr. was a big part of that, setting a new season high in receiving yards in the first quarter with 79.

The run game was having its successes, too, with three Cardinals scoring on the ground in the first half. Michael Carter led the way with eight carries for 27 yards and a score.

Then just as it looked like the get-right game was going to be just that, the Cardinals got got.

Instead of the Cardinals offense’s successes pouring over in the second half, Arizona’s run game got back to its inefficient ways, with Carter finishing with 51 yards and the score on 18 carries. He averaged 2.8 yards per carry.

Harrison, meanwhile, made just one more catch (on one target) across the rest of the way. He missed the century mark by two yards.

But Carter’s YPC and Harrison’s lack of second-half looks are far from the reasons why the Cardinals lost on Sunday.

No, that largely goes to two back-breaking moments by Emari Demercado and Dadrion “Rabbit” Taylor-Demerson which gave the Titans just enough window for the comeback.

Demercado looked to be the dagger in the Titans’ side behind a long fourth-quarter scamper that appeared to go the distance.

That was until it was shown on the review that he dropped the ball before crossing the plane.

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“I made a mistake. There’s really no excuse,” Demercado said postgame.

“I was obviously emotional. It was a big play, but I just got to be smarter,” the running back added.

Instead of at least six points (barring an extra point or two-point conversion), the Cardinals gave the ball back to Tennessee as a touchback.

The Titans responded with a touchdown drive.

“I’m really close with (Emari). I know his character, I know his IQ of the game,” quarterback Kyler Murray said postgame. “Never in a million years would I think that Emari would do that, but obviously, we all make mistakes.

“He’s going to take that on the chin, he understands that. But at the end of the day, we all just got to be better. He owns up to that. We talk about it all the time. I’m sure he’s frustrated.”

Then came Rabbit in the red zone.

Despite picking off Cam Ward late in the fourth quarter and deep in Tennessee’s own territory, the safety couldn’t keep his handle on the rock.

He coughed it up, it rolled into the end zone and the Titans suddenly made it a two-point game.

Arizona mustered just six plays of offense on the ensuing drive, setting up the Titans for one last shot at taking the win, and Joey Slye nailed his first career walk-off kick from 29 yards out.

“You got to stay on the field and get drives going,” Gannon said. “We had chances and just didn’t do it.”