Kyler Murray: Cardinals Will Be Better Off For 2020 Collapse

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray says the team needs more consistency and more variety after crashing and burning last year.

The Cardinals began the 2020 regular season well, but unraveled when Kyler Murray experienced some injury trouble.

Kyler Murray hurt his shoulder during a Week 9 defeat to Miami, and again 11 days later against Seattle.

As a result, he wasn’t able to run as much as his offense needed him to. Arizona went 3 – 6 in the final games of the season and missed the playoffs.

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“Anybody can look and see kind of where that shifted a bit, style of play and production, things of that nature,” coach Kliff Kingsbury said. 

“That’s part of playing in this league and I thought he did a nice job of pushing through. He was uncomfortable a bunch throughout the season and still went out there and gave it everything you had to try and win games.

“Hopefully, we can keep him healthy and stay on the right track but he learned some valuable lessons through that.”

Ahead of the new season, Murray says the team can’t be so reliant on him pushing his body to its limit.

“Honestly, the way I see it is my legs should be a luxury,” Murray said. 

“And it kind of wasn’t like that last year. It was kind of me having to run for us in a sense and once my shoulder was banged up, or whatever, and I wasn’t trying to put myself out there and take those hits and stuff like that, we kind of hit a lull.”

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“Honestly, I think it was good for us,” Murray said. “I think it was a lesson for us that we can’t be one dimensional. We just got to be better in all areas, all aspects of the game and do the little things right because, like I told you last year, we started off hot and towards the end, we were losing games we shouldn’t have lost and I think that’s a sign of inconsistency and not doing everything right on and off the field. So, like I said, it’s a lesson for us. I think we’ll be better for it.”