{"id":554848,"date":"2026-03-30T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554848\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:42:07","slug":"mike-lafleur-on-kyler-murray-sometimes-its-time-for-change-on-both-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/554848\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike LaFleur on Kyler Murray: Sometimes it’s time for change on both sides"},"content":{"rendered":"

It became obvious late last season that Kyler Murray had played his final game for the Cardinals. The team kept him on injured reserve with a foot injury, with his last of five starts in 2025 coming on Oct. 5.<\/p>\n

Mike LaFleur, though, wouldn\u2019t discuss Murray\u2019s future<\/a> after his hiring as the team\u2019s head coach.<\/p>\n

Now that the Cardinals officially released Murray, who signed with the Vikings, LaFleur addressed Murray\u2019s departure after seven seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike I\u2019ve said about Kyler, a lot of respect for him. Wish him the best<\/a>,\u201d LaFleur said Monday at the NFL owners meetings, via Donnie Druin of SI.com. \u201cDid some good stuff here, but sometimes it\u2019s time for change for both sides. Again, wish him the best. Will never wish ill will on anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murray, the No. 1 overall pick in 2019, played under two head coaches in Arizona. He will not play for LaFleur. <\/p>\n

He leaves after one playoff appearance, two Pro Bowls, 121 passing touchdowns, 60 interceptions and 32 rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike I just said, it\u2019s one of those things where it\u2019s good for both parties to part ways if you will,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cAgain, we wish him the best. He had a lot of success here. I know when I was on the other sideline, albeit [I\u2019m not] Robert Saleh or one of the defensive coaches \u2014 he was a problem. Again, wish him all the success, but we felt like this was the best thing to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cardinals signed Gardner Minshew to join Jacoby Brissett in the quarterbacks room, and the team could draft a quarterback to join them.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s call it what it is: The quarterback position is the most important position in all of sports. We know that,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cSo there were lengthy conversations in so many different aspects of [the position], and there will continue to be until we figure out how we have the most perfect room possible. I like where we\u2019re at right now, but like we said, if there\u2019s a guy to add, we\u2019re going to add [him].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It became obvious late last season that Kyler Murray had played his final game for the Cardinals. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-554848","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\/554848","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=554848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}