This feud could have been seen coming two years ago with what we know about Murray. Kyler Murray and his former Cardinals teammate, Patrick Peterson, have been going back in forth in a pretty personal fight over Murray’s ‘selfishness’ and lack of leadership.
Now, like I said, this feud could have been spotted years ago with our new knowledge about Kyler Murray and the dreadful offseason and regular season he’s had. Starting off with the ‘study session’ clause in his 5-year, $230.5M deal to his high-profile spats with his head coach, the offensive game schemes, and the receiving core to now this fight with former teammates, I think it’s fair to say that Murray has kind of been exposed this season.
The way the Cardinals have played this season and Murray’s huge contract extension may be a coincidental correlation, but I think it’s more like a causation. As of this moment, it appears like Murray only cared about getting paid and has now down tooled his play as he either wants to get Kingsbury fired, or he just simply doesn’t care about football enough to try.
Personally, I believe it is far more likely that he wants Kingsbury gone as he has not only called out his head coach’s game schemes, but he also viciously cursed him out on the sidelines in the Cardinals win over the Saints. I mean, if he was willing to berate Kingbury in a game where the Cardinals one, you can only image the abuse he’s hurling at his coach in the eight other games the Cardinals have lost this year.
Anyways, as for this Peterson beef, it’s clear that the now-Vikings CB saw Murray as a self-centered, self-absorbed leader that was hinted at up until this point.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Murray has only ever cared about his putting his personal image and glory in front of the team when he deleted all pictures of him in a Cardinals uniform during his holdout, his reluctance to study film and learn from Kingsbury, his public fights with Kingsbury, and his lack of accountability and tendency to blame everyone else when things go south. If you don’t believe me just watch every Murray interview after a loss this season.
I honestly couldn’t find one time where Kyler Murray took accountability for a loss the Cardinals suffered this season. Instead, I only found quotes of him blaming his receivers for ‘not being awake’, saying that the offensive gameplan was ‘sh*t’, and his infamous outburst during the Cardinal-Saints game. Maybe I haven’t looked hard enough but there’s no evidence Murray even believes he’s part of the problem in Arizona.
It’s no wonder members of the Cardinals defense, such as Patrick Peterson, found Murray’s ‘style of leadership’ (if you can even call it that) to be phony and selfish.
And that’s exactly what Patrick Peterson is talking about when he says that Murray doesn’t take responsibility.
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