Remember when the Arizona Cardinals eliminated the “homework” clause from quarterback Kyler Murray’s contract after the clause was reported by the media?
The staff ought to have stored it in response to some feedback from a teammate of Murray’s.
An nameless teammate of Murray’s just lately instructed Michael Silver, writing for Bally Sports, that “it was like they created a monster,” after the quarterback signed his five-year, $230.5 million extension with Arizona over the summer season.
The teammate, referred to as a “Cardinals veteran” in Silver’s story, wasn’t performed.
Silver wrote within the story: “Once paid, the veteran stated, Murray felt much less compulsion to review his recreation plan or to satisfy the expectations of the franchise QB place than he had prior to now, and the Cardinals’ collapse felt predictable.”
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Murray’s deal made him one of many highest paid quarterbacks, and gamers, within the NFL.
It was not with out controversy, nonetheless.
The contract included an addendum that required a minimum of 4 hours per week of finding out the staff’s opponent every week of the season, in response to experiences.
The clause was slammed all through the league earlier than, and after, it was faraway from his contract.
“After seeing the distraction it created, we eliminated the addendum from the contract,” a Cardinals assertion stated. “It was clearly perceived in ways in which had been by no means meant. Our confidence in Kyler Murray is as excessive because it’s ever been and nothing demonstrates our perception in his capability to steer this staff greater than the dedication mirrored on this contract.”
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Murray responded to the clause after the staff eliminated it.
“To suppose that I can accomplish every thing that I’ve completed in my profession, and never be a scholar of the sport and never have that keenness and never take this critically is disrespectful,” Murray instructed the media. “And it is virtually a joke. To me, I’m flattered… that you just all suppose that at my dimension, I can go on the market and never put together for the sport and never take it critically. It’s disrespectful, I really feel like, to my friends, to all the nice athletes and nice gamers which are on this league. This recreation is simply too onerous to play the place that I play on this league. It’s too onerous.”
He continued: “I’m not 6-7, 230 (kilos). I do not throw the ball 85 yards. I’m already behind the eight ball. And I am unable to afford to take any shortcuts, no pun meant . But these issues you may’t accomplish if you happen to do not take the sport critically, if you happen to do not put together the precise means. And, you recognize, it is like I stated, it is laughable.”
He wasn’t performed.
“I refuse to let my work ethic, my preparation be questioned. I’ve put an incomprehensible period of time and blood, sweat, tears and work into what I do,” Murray stated. “To these of you on the market that imagine that I’d be standing right here in the present day in entrance of you all with out having a work ethic … I’m honored that you just suppose that, however it does not exist. It’s not doable. “
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Murray just lately had surgical procedure for a torn ACL and its unsure whether or not he might be again for the beginning of the Cardinals’ 2023 season.
Cardinals proprietor Michael Bidwill just lately stated that the QB would have “enter” within the staff’s search for a brand new coach, a remark that got here below scrutiny.
Just like Murray apparently is below for his work ethic as soon as once more.
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