Steve Keim Fires Shots at Kyler Murray
It's a war of words.
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray was the most recent focal point of the team's "Flight Plan" series on YouTube, as the 20 minute episode captured behind the scenes footage of his ACL rehab while also featuring the quarterback opening up on not only the injury, but also the horrid 2022 season that saw the team ultimately go 4-13.
“I’m going to listen. I’m going to be coachable, and I’m going to do it to the best of my ability. But if the shit ain’t working, at some point, we all have to look in the mirror," said Murray before adding more:
"I feel free in a sense, especially with the change of upstairs [general manager] in the organization. I feel like they've done a great job ever since they came in. Holding people accountable, the leadership, they're really trying to build something from the ground up."
That caused quite the stir, so much to the point where former Cardinals GM Steve Keim appeared on The Herd and offered his two cents:
“I think in terms of quarterbacks, what he said you don’t love it, just because of the standpoint when he added the word ‘but’ in, generally behind a positive the word ‘but’ does not end in a positive light,” Keim told Colin Cowherd. “I certainly didn’t want to hear that. And nor do fans want to hear a guy who’s making $46.1 million a year blame anybody but himself.
"I’m not saying he’s a guy that blames people. Yet at the same time, when you get that bag of cash, everybody expects you to take it on your shoulders, and that’s what a franchise quarterback does. This is a big year. I would have actually had Kyler in my top five for guys under pressure, because what if they have a bad year?
“He’s coming off the injury. He’s got to prove himself. What happens, as what people forecast, that they have the No. 1 pick, they’re in a real predicament.”
Murray also added, "I'm thinking of stuff that I wasn't part of, like the draft, who we were gonna get, young players coming out. The whole (last) year was (expletive). It happened for a reason. The things we were doing weren't sustainable for success. It was necessary and in turn good will come out of what happened."
Interesting comments from both sides - we'll see how Murray performs under the new regime, though it's open now how the previous front office felt about him.
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