People who think Arizona Cardinals’ Kyler Murray would be a good fit for the Jets might be a tad misguided.
The Jets have been down this road enough, with quarterbacks who are generally one-read-and-run cats.
They just went through that this past season with Justin Fields, and a couple of years before that with Zach Wilson.
They took a one-year respite from that in 2024 with Aaron Rodgers, a full field-reader, who tossed 28 TDs, but was shown the door about a year ago.
Murray’s clearly not a franchise QB. He proved that in Arizona. And the idea that they had to put a clause in his contract, giving him bonuses for studying harder, which was the case when Arizona offered him a megadeal in 2022, why would you want a player like that? After media backlash, in these sensitive times, they took that clause out of the deal, which Murray eventually signed.
And Arizona just hired Mike LaFleur to be their new head coach. They clearly hired him because he has a good reputation as an offensive coach and comes from the Sean McVay tree. So if he’s the offensive mastermind they think, and he doesn’t want to keep Murray around, and try to work with him, why would the Jets want a guy like that?
He’s also a tad over 5-10, so if you trap him in the pocket, he has issues seeing the field.
And with Murray, you would probably have to trade for him. Why give up draft capital for a guy with so many question marks?
Murray to the Jets makes very little sense on so many levels.
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