Grading Kyler Murray's Rookie Year
The Lead
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🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray entered the NFL surrounded by hype, but along with the fanfare came a lot of doubt. The football world at large didn't think a quarterback of his stature could thrive in the NFL, but so far he's proving the doubters wrong. The Athletic's Lindsay Jones joins us to talk about Kyler Murray's rookie campaign, how his skills have translated on the big stage and why he might be the best high school football player ever to come from the state of Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | When you talk about pressure in sports, it doesn't get much harder than being a rookie quarterback. |
| 0:10.5 | It's hard out there for a rook. |
| 0:12.3 | Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray is one of the more dynamic young players in |
| 0:18.3 | the NFL right now, and he came into the league with a lot of hype, but also a lot of doubters. |
| 0:25.1 | Kyler overrated or underrated. |
| 0:27.8 | Too much hype, Skip. |
| 0:28.8 | You know it is. |
| 0:29.8 | I know it is. |
| 0:30.8 | It's too much. |
| 0:31.8 | Way, way, way too much. |
| 0:32.8 | Give me the small, man. |
| 0:33.8 | I always like to get around that. |
| 0:34.8 | I just came. |
| 0:35.8 | Today, we're going to talk with the athletics Lindsey Jones about Kyler Murray's rookie season, |
| 0:41.6 | what grade he's earned so far, and why she thinks Murray is the greatest Texas high school |
| 0:46.6 | football player ever. |
| 0:48.9 | From Wondery and the Athletic, I'm under Skeleton. |
| 0:51.2 | And I'm Kibbeath the Davidson. |
| 0:52.8 | It's Thursday, December 19th, and this is the lead. |
| 0:56.3 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 0:59.0 | There was just something about the emotion and the moment you got to go first and first. |
| 1:05.2 | The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
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