Arizona is seeing how the rookie salary scale has set a precedent for young quarterbacks looking for their first extension. Plus, how a condensed schedule is hurting the combine, how the overtime rules debate could play out, and more.
INDIANAPOLIS—We’re here, and so is the 2022 offseason …
Kyler Murray: Joe Camporeale/USA TODAY Sports; Jordan Mailata: Bill Streicher/USA TODAY Sports; Derek Stingley Jr. Stingley: Gary Cosby Jr./USA TODAY Network
• The Kyler Murray situation may seem a little strange, but I wouldn’t say any part of it is unpredictable. Things were tenuous, in general, in Arizona in the days after the Cardinals’ wild-card round loss to the Rams—with coaches’ statuses left up in the air, an annual personnel meeting getting abruptly canceled, and that week wearing on with a sense of uncertainty around the football operation there.