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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon: Kyler Murray is ‘our franchise quarterback’  Yahoo Sports Source link

Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury wants quarterback Kyler Murray to understand one thing about calling plays: “This s*** ain’t easy.” Kingsbury gave Murray a chance to call plays in practice and gave an evaluation of Murray as a play-caller. The verdict: Kingsbury wouldn’t want to play for Murray. As Kingsbury explained, he let Murray call plays for the backup quarterbacks Saturday. Kingsbury made the decision so Murray could experience what it was like to call plays during a game…. Source link

Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon chastised the “independent study” clause initially included in Kyler Murray’s contract extension with the Arizona Cardinals, chastising the language as a “slap in the face to all African-American quarterbacks.” Moon made the comment to TMZ for a story published on Sunday while discussing Murray’s $230 million extension that makes him the second-highest paid player in the NFL by annual salary. When Murray signed the deal last week, a clause in the contract… Source link

Kyler Murray’s “independent study” clause is no more. The Arizona Cardinals removed the clause in Murray’s contract that required him to watch film each week, the team announced Thursday night. [Set, hut, hike! Create or join a fantasy football league now!] The move, which came after harsh criticism from the quarterback and others, was done after the team realized “the distraction it created.” “After seeing the distraction it created, we removed the addendum from the contract,”… Source link

For 11 long and emotional minutes, Kyler Murray stood at a podium Thursday and defended himself and his work ethic as an athlete. You couldn’t blame him. Earlier this week, an addendum in his recently agreed upon $230 million contract ($160 million guaranteed) with the Arizona Cardinals was made public. It required Murray complete four hours of “independent study” during the week before each game. This is in addition to studying with coaches and teammates. It required Murray to… Source link

Kyler Murray doesn’t want to hear your jokes or comments about the “independent study” clause in his new Arizona Cardinals contract. He also doesn’t want you to think he could make it to the NFL without studying film. The newly-minted $230.5 million quarterback held an impromptu press conference Thursday to talk about everything that’s been said about the part of his new contract with requires him to spend at least four hours per week game film in an attempt to save his reputation around the… Source link

By all accounts, the Arizona Cardinals have done something unprecedented in the NFL’s history of elite quarterback contracts. And it’s not the $230.5 million total commitment in Kyler Murray’s record-setting deal. Nor is it the $160 million in guaranteed money or the $46.1 million average salary. All of those numbers had the league buzzing last week. But it’s another, much smaller number that had jaws hitting the floor on Monday. Four. More specifically, four hours. A time increment… Source link

Four months ago, when Deshaun Watson signed the most staggering contract in NFL history, a fully guaranteed $230 million dollar deal, the salary implications across the league were unmistakable. It had the potential to completely reshape the ceiling and floor of top-10 caliber NFL quarterback money. And it left a message resonating through front office and ownership suites. Now we wait. For what, exactly? Well, for Thursday, when the other shoe dropped on a top-10 quarterback deal this… Source link

We can finally put to bed the question of whether or not Kyler Murray made a mistake of picking football over baseball. After Murray signed a lucrative five-year, $230.5 million contract extension with the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday, his $46.1 million annual salary was almost that of the entire 2022 payroll of the Oakland Athletics — the same team that drafted him ninth overall in 2018. Yes, the Athletics are only spending $48.5 million this season. If you only look at the 26-man roster,… Source link

Kyler Murray will remain with the Arizona Cardinals after all. Following an offseason of drama, the two sides reportedly came together on a massive $230.5 million contract extension Thursday, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The team seemingly confirmed the extension on Twitter, though did not disclose the details of the contract. The deal is worth more than the $230 million contract Deshaun Watson signed with the Cleveland Browns in March. It does not include as much guaranteed money,… Source link