Last year was a slog even with him on the field, but man, at least the Cardinals were watchable. There was a time during the Bruce Arians era that the Cardinals could compete when Carson Palmer went down with an injury, but the current iteration comes to a screeching halt without Murray. Murray has missed 16 games over the past two years, mostly because of the torn ACL, and in that span Arizona is 2-14. This year, they are 1-8 without him, again the worst record in the NFL. In 2018, before Murray’s arrival, Arizona was historically inept on offense and finished with the worst record in the NFL.
While there has been a lot of criticism about his playoff performance in 2021, it’s beginning to look like a minor miracle he even got them there. Which brings us to this: has Kyler Murray been propping up the Cardinals more than we realized?
