TEMPE, Ariz. — Green Bay and Carolina are leading contenders, but five weeks from the end of the season, no team is a bigger disappointment than the Arizona Cardinals.

After going 13-3 last season, they were a trendy pick to win it all, a team whose players and coach said that nothing but a Super Bowl would make the season a success.

And here they are at 4-6-1.

A day after the Cardinals were beaten 38-19 in Atlanta, coach Bruce Arians took aim at his players.

He spoke of “selfishness instead of selflessness that’s crept in.”

Without naming names, Arians criticized the team’s leaders.

“Right now we are not making the critical plays to win” he said, “and it’s got to be corrected soon.”

So why are the players not doing their job 12 weeks into the season?

“I’m very surprised,” Arians said. “We’ve been talking about it for four weeks and the veterans obviously haven’t done anything about it, so maybe the young guys will step up and make the opportunity they need.”

He singled out defensive lineman Corey Peters for his “outstanding” performance against the Falcons.

“That was the example I used to the rest of them,” Arians said.

Peters appreciated Arians’ compliment but brushed it aside.

“None of that really matters,” he said. “We didn’t get the job done as a whole. That’s my only goal.”