{"id":448271,"date":"2026-02-04T09:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448271\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:37:10","slug":"mike-lafleur-wont-address-arizonas-qb-situation-but-has-a-lot-of-respect-for-kyler-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448271\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike LaFleur won&#8217;t address Arizona&#8217;s QB situation but has &#8220;a lot of respect&#8221; for Kyler Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is expected that Kyler Murray has played his final game in Arizona. <\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals are thought to be moving on from their quarterback after seven seasons and one playoff game. Murray played only five games in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>New coach Mike LaFleur isn\u2019t ready to address the quarterback position yet, though.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to go back and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azcardinals.com\/news\/qb-discussions-yet-to-be-had-for-new-coach-mike-lafleur-kyler-murray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">talk about all these decisions<\/a> \u2014 quarterback, O-line, specialists,\u201d LaFleur said, via Darren Urban of the team website. \u201cEverything. It\u2019s our job and for these players to build the best roster at each position. Those are conversations we will have, and I am looking forward in about 45 minutes getting after it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murray spent much of the 2025 season on injured reserve with a foot injury. He missed nine games in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals are 38-48-1 in his starts.<\/p>\n<p>LaFleur said he has \u201ctouched base\u201d with Murray since landing the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll say this, being in this division for seven years, it was never fun [to play Murray],\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cI have a lot of respect for him as a player. He was never a fun challenge to go against.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murray, Jacoby Brissett and Kedon Slovis are under contract with the team for 2026. Thus, the Cardinals\u2019 starting quarterback for 2026 might not be on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever the starter is, LaFleur will call the plays.<\/p>\n<p>LaFleur did not call the plays the past three seasons as offensive coordinator of the Rams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI missed it,\u201d said LaFleur, who was the play caller for two seasons with the Jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is expected that Kyler Murray has played his final game in Arizona. The Cardinals are thought to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-448271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}