Cardinals general manager Steve Keim no doubt reassured his team’s fans on Thursday by mentioning that quarterback Kyler Murray was in Arizona to stay.
“There’s no way,” he said, in comments taken from his team’s website, when asked if the pivot could be traded.
“I’m smart enough to understand that Murray makes me a better general manager.”
Things between Murray and the Cardinals were rocky this offseason, to say the least. In search of a new pact, the 24-year-old athlete had removed all references to the Cardinals on his social networks. His agent, Erik Burkhardt, even submitted a contract extension offer to the Cardinals in February, but later withdrew his offer. The Arizona organization, for its part, has not submitted any offers.
“The way we look at it is that there’s the free agent period, then the draft and then we can breathe easier and look at this file again,” added Keim. That’s why all third-year quarterbacks received [leur prolongation de contrat] in mid to late summer. It will be no different in our case.”
“Nothing has changed in our intentions for him to be our quarterback for the short and long term.”
Murray is also reassuring
For his part, Murray has communicated his intentions to stay with the team that drafted him as the first overall pick of the 2019 auction via his social networks.
“I want to win Super Bowls with the Cardinals. Arizona is my home,” the pivot wrote on his Twitter account, in response to a short video from the CBS network’s “All Things Covered” podcast. In it, Patrick Peterson, a defensive back who spent the first 10 seasons of his career with the Cardinals, before playing for the Minnesota Vikings in 2021, hints that Murray might want to move on.