GLENDALE, Ariz.—It’s 106 degrees outside as I type this, which doesn’t matter much since the Cardinals hold their training camp inside State Farm Stadium. Here are our takeaways from the game field in the Phoenix suburbs …
• There’s a ton of excitement on where Kyler Murray is going into his sixth season, and second under the direction of Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon. Whether perception matched reality or not, the noise around Murray before Gannon and his staff arrived here 18 months ago wasn’t good. And there’s a reason you haven’t heard much of that since. Murray’s been a model teammate—a constant presence in the offseason program, and organizing player trips for work (to Los Angeles to throw this summer) and pleasure (to Oklahoma City for a Mavericks-Thunder playoff game)—and worker under the new regime. Murray played well last year, and that was coming off a torn ACL that cost him all of the offseason, camp and half the regular season. Now, he’s full steam ahead in his second year in OC Drew Petzing’s offense, and he has a better group around him, and this should be fun to watch.
