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Sights/Sounds From Cardinals' First Open Practice

The Arizona Cardinals held their first open practice of training camp 2023 - here's what we saw and heard.

GLENDALE -- State Farm Stadium welcomed fans for the first time as the Arizona Cardinals held an open practice on Thursday for spectators beyond media after doing conditioning on Tuesday and holding a closed practice on Wednesday. 

Fans were delighted to see the smiling face of Budda Baker after inking a revised deal to stay with the team. Baker was awarded $300k as a signing bonus with $2.4 million in incentives after a long offseason of going back and forth with the organization. 

Kyler Murray - still rehabbing his ACL - was a bystander behind the quarterbacks for the practice. Murray was placed on PUP (physically unable to perform) along with B.J. Ojulari, who was spotted working off to the side. Both can be reactivated at any time. 

Myjai Sanders was spotted leaving practice about 30 minutes early with an unknown injury, though he was gesturing towards his arm when talking to a trainer. 

Arizona utilized a three-safety look with Isaiah Simmons playing a deep single-high safety while Jalen Thompson and Baker played in front of him. 

Zach Pascal made two tremendous catches today, the first of which was a 25+ yard down the left numbers over two defenders (one of which was Simmons) while his second came on a toe-drag reception near the sideline a bit later during team activities. 

Video from today's practice:

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