Playing cards’ Kingsbury nonetheless making an attempt to get learn on Murray

TEMPE, Ariz. — With simply days left earlier than the Arizona Cardinals unveil their secretive offense in opposition to the Detroit Lions on Sunday, first-year coach Kliff Kingsbury nonetheless cannot get a learn on how his star quarterback, first-overall choose Kyler Murray, is dealing with the second.

Nobody can.

Murray is quiet by nature, and has been since he was a toddler rising up in Lewisville, Texas, however he has but to open up now that he is within the NFL and taking part in for a coach he is identified since he was 15.

“Y’all have interviewed him, proper?” Kingsbury requested. “What does he normally give y’all?”

Not a lot.

“It is the identical,” Kingsbury stated. “That is what he’s and who he’s. I suppose, he thought he was going to be right here his whole life, so it is simply the following step for him. I’ve stated all of it alongside, he is a rookie quarterback within the NFL beginning Week 1. There’s going to be some ups and downs. We will make some errors. We’ll work via these and attempt to proceed to enhance collectively.”

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Kingsbury cannot even get Murray to inform him which performs he desires to run this week.

“It is like pulling tooth with him making an attempt to inform me that ‘I do not like a play’ as a result of he desires to make all of them work and that is his angle,” Kingsbury stated. “However there’s good conversations and after at present, strolling off the follow area, I am going to attempt to get, ‘Hey, what do not you want?’ and he’ll say, ‘I like it all’ and we’ll transfer ahead. That is how he’s.

“He is aggressive and he desires to make all of it work. However, yeah, there’s undoubtedly these conversations happening. We need to make sure that he is as snug as attainable as a result of it will likely be a troublesome problem. It is exhausting to step in as a rookie Day 1 and win a soccer sport, and we perceive that, so we will attempt to assist him as a lot as attainable.”

Kingsbury stated he might have been “overstating” Murray’s quietness slightly, but it surely wasn’t by a lot. And he expects Murray to open up a bit, be extra opinionated on performs and begin speaking extra because the season goes on.

“What you see is what you get,” Kingsbury stated. “He is not going to be excessive, rainbows and sunshine with you, and I like that as a result of that is how he carries himself. He is very assured, very aggressive. I like the place he is at. I do not ever see him bringing me cupcakes on sport day or something like that. I feel he will be who he’s and we’ll proceed our relationship.”

Murray’s confidence that he can run each play stems from his familiarity with Kingsbury’s system, which he was first launched to in eighth grade. From the day he arrived in Arizona, Murray understood among the operation, execution, reads and terminology, Kingsbury stated.

And it has helped Murray adapt to NFL soccer faster than most rookie quarterbacks.

“It is not like he is coming in right here making an attempt to be taught Chinese language as plenty of these first-year quarterbacks are,” Kingsbury stated “Therein lies slightly little bit of consolation degree that possibly a few of these different guys did not have going into Week 1 having to be starters.”

All that familiarity will assist Murray on Sunday, when he runs the Cardinals’ offense for the primary time in a sport. Kingsbury stored it tightly underneath wraps throughout the preseason — possibly even a bit to the intense, he admitted Wednesday.

Kingsbury didn’t run all of his base performs throughout the preseason, he stated, but it surely will not matter.

“You simply rep it in follow and also you make these conditions as game-like as attainable and make the most of your follow reps,” he stated.

However Kingsbury has a powerful perception that his model of the Air Raid will work within the NFL due to one major cause.

“As a result of it is by no means been used earlier than within the NFL,” Kingsbury stated. “I do know Chip [Kelly] did a model of what he does, however yeah, there’s just one technique to discover out and it is by no means been used. No one actually is aware of what we will do or what it is going to appear like and so, we’ll type of take it one sport at a time.”