Colin Cowherd Gets Honest on Cardinals QB Kyler Murray
ARIZONA -- The discourse surrounding Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray has been quite loud since entering the league as a No. 1 overall pick, though there's sure to be even more conversation surrounding his future this offseason thanks to the organization again having another high draft slot.
While names such as Caleb Williams and Drake Maye will dominant headlines as the draft process truly begins to get underway in places such as Mobile and Indianapolis, the Cardinals will be a hot topic team leading all the way into draft night itself.
Talking heads such as FS1's Colin Cowherd will surely continue to swirl in the speculation, though Cowherd made it clear on his recent show that the Cardinals have a talented passer on their hands.
To get his point across, he compared Murray and his current situation to Aaron Rodgers.
"It is interesting who we choose to be critical of and who we choose to defend and surround ourselves next to. So Arizona is 1-8, looks like the worst team in the league. Kyler Murray comes back and they go 2-2 against four playoff teams as of now. The Rams, the Steelers, the Texans, Atlanta leads their division. Say what you want, four playoff teams, 2-2. He's very good," Cowherd said.
"But it's interesting to me. Everybody sort of allowed Aaron Rodgers to be prickly and aloof and difficult at times with the front office - and he was defended for years and years and years. And that said, Aaron inherited a good front office. Stability, a winning culture, a very good coach who is now winning in Dallas, and still was difficult.
"Kyler Murray gets drafted by the clown show in Arizona where the owner has been rated by players the worst. Front office always been a little bit frenetic, not a ton of stability. They hire a coach out of college with a losing record. Multiple stories about the dysfunction in the organization and in a tough division with [Sean] McVay and Kyle Shanahan and Pete Carroll leads them to the playoffs. But then all of a sudden stories leak. He's difficult, he plays too many video games.
"And it's interesting to me. Aaron Rodgers: prickly, passive aggressive. Aaron inherited nothing but high standard football. Front office, roster, o-line down. This young guy inherits a mess. A tire fire. Gets into the playoffs and now he's difficult. No, he's different. There's a difference between difficult and different. If you go look - we did this this morning - if you go looked at Kyler Murray's first 61 games as a pro and remember, the first two years of this were all rebuild. They're all rebuild numbers. Completes 66% of his throws - by the way that's higher than Aaron Rodgers' first 61 games in his career - 87 touchdowns 43 picks, add on another 26 rushing touchdown, so 113 total touchdowns and a passer rating at 92. Generally with bad o-lines.
"So let me ask you: find a quarterback in this league with a bad organization and bad roster and a rebuild that puts up those numbers. They don't exist."
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