The Arizona Cardinals published what should have been an innocuous post over social media on Monday, making the team’s support for starting quarterback Kyler Murray clear.
“Our franchise QB,” read the post. It was a simple, declarative statement that should have gone without saying after the team committed nearly a quarter-billion dollars to him in Arizona through 2028 just two years ago.
Instead, possibly precisely because of the fact that Murray is the Cardinals’ top quarterback for the near future should go without saying, football fans were raising eyebrows that it needed to be said in the first place.
