Murray update

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(03-06-2019, 12:48 PM)McC Wrote: The tape doesn't lie about the player.  I never denied that.

Let's look at it this way.  You have a QB who is a dynamic runner.  You have a rookie HC in a place where the last HC got fired in one year.  You have a bad OLine and a bad defense.  You have one receiver worth a damn. 

There has to at least be a chance that their passing game will have bad days.  On those days, what are the chances that the rookie HC goes all Shanahan/Harbaugh and puts that dynamic running ability to work? 

It saved Shanahan's job but got RGIII shattered.  It saved Harbaugh's job, even though Jackson had to leave more than one game dinged up.  How much running can Murray get away with in the not Big 12 NFL, where defenses are gradually coming to terms with the college offenses?

I'm not saying Kingsbury will be making a RB out of his QB.  But it's pretty hard to deny how strong the temptation will be because there is precedent.  How much of that will he be able to stand up to?  

Is his HC up to the task of taking a horrible team and turning it around?  He couldn't do squat at TT.   And talk about lofty expectations. 

Mayfield had a team already pretty well assembled, with good receivers and backs and a very good OLine and a top notch GM in Dorsey.  Murray will not have that.  That's gonna be a lot to ask.  Gonna be a far cry from Oklahoma.  We will certainly see what he's made of, won't we?  If he goes to the Cardinals, it almost seems like the worst possible situation.

Umm, Mayfield didn't a "pretty well assembled" team, he had a team that only won one game in two seasons prior. What that team did was go out during FA just a couple months before drafting Mayfield and picked up some key guys to add. 
Tyrod Taylor as a stopgap starter
Jarvis Landry was a huge get
Carlos Hyde as the primary RB
Damarious Randall as a starting DB
TJ Carrie
Chris Hubbard

They also had a really good draft with a lot of early-round picks, and they hit on most of them.

The point I'm trying to make is that you're basing the Cardinals on what they are before FA and the draft happen, which you could easily say the Browns were in an even worse position at this point last year.