GLENDALE, Ariz. — Getting into his sixth season, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray mentioned Monday that he feels a way of urgency to start out profitable.
The 26-year-old Murray has only one profitable document in his first 5 years, when the Cardinals went 11-5 in 2021 and misplaced within the NFC wild-card spherical. They began 7-0 that season and sat atop the convention till a second-half slide value them the NFC West title. Arizona didn’t end higher than .500 in his different 4 seasons, together with 2023, when it went 4-13 as Murray missed the primary 9 video games rehabbing his proper ACL.
“You by no means know when the sport’s going to be taken away from you,” Murray mentioned. “You will by no means understand how lengthy you are going to be taking part in. So, my objective is to be the perfect, and since I used to be 4 years outdated my dream was to be a quarterback within the NFL, win Tremendous Bowls, and that is what I attempt to do each single day.”
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Murray is per week into his first coaching camp since 2022 after lacking final 12 months’s due to the harm, and the expertise of being again on the sector has made an affect on the 2019 first total draft decide.
Simply final week, Murray mentioned he advised quarterback coach Israel Woolfork and trainers “how blessed I really feel so far as simply to be wholesome and be again on the market simply doing what I really like. It is a blast.”
Murray described this 12 months’s coaching camp as a “fully new state of affairs,” including that what Arizona achieved after he returned final season, going 3-5, would not matter.
“Final 12 months was simply such a whirlwind for me so far as being harm after which rehabbing the entire 12 months, coming again in the midst of the season, which I’ve by no means completed earlier than,” Murray mentioned. “After which once more, so far as the play goes, having to get higher every week once more, after which really feel like getting within the groove of issues, and it form of probably not imply something, however for me it meant one thing internally, however I feel this 12 months simply getting to start out off contemporary, it’s a massive distinction.”
Murray wasn’t shy about admitting that he and the offense have considered its potential this season with him returning, the additions of rookie receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. and veteran receiver Zay Jones, the evolution of Trey McBride, and one other 12 months within the offense with operating again James Conner and receivers Michael Wilson and Greg Dortch.
Murray mentioned sufficient guys within the locker room have been on good offenses prior to now that they perceive the way it feels and consider that it may be replicated this season in Arizona, which he added was “half the battle.”
Heading into the second 12 months of the Cardinals’ offense, Murray thinks the “sky is the restrict” on what Arizona can do with the ball in its fingers.
“I do not put any limitation on what this offense may be or do,” he mentioned. “I feel we’re very versatile, acquired nice talent set so far as receivers or operating backs, once more, me coming again wholesome, I do not really feel like I even scratched the floor of what I am able to so far as shifting round being a twin risk on the sector on the again finish of the season. So, like I mentioned, I do not put any limitation on what we are able to do.”
That sense of urgency to win led Murray, partly, to prepare a weeklong journey to Los Angeles with 12 of his teammates to get everybody extra reps, work on their timing and construct their relationships off the sector, all with one objective in thoughts: profitable.
“Getting all these reps that we acquired, we could not have gotten if we did not do these issues off the sector as a result of there’s the sense of urgency there,” Murray mentioned. “We need to hit the bottom operating. We aren’t popping out this season, regardless of what everyone thinks or what they’re saying, we all know we need to do on this locker room, so, with a view to try this, you bought to place the work in.”
