Kyler Murray describes aftermath of knee injury

On the latest “Flight Plan” episode, Murray describes how he felt immediately after injuring his knee.

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray saw his season end prematurely in 2022 when he tore his ACL in December against the New England Patriots. It was the first significant injury in his life.

On the latest episode of “Flight Plan” on the Cardinals’ YouTube channel, Murray went into detail about the experience of how it happened and how he felt immediately afterward.

“I’ve made that cut a million times,” he said. “When something like that happens, you kind of know it’s probably not normal that happened. But I did not know (the extent of the injury). I did not know.”

After the injury happened, he detailed how it was almost like how things appear on TV or movies.

“You know when you see someone get hurt on TV and you see everybody come dap him up and give their love. It was like all that happened in a blur,” he said. “The trainers came up to me. I’m on the ground. I wasn’t in shock. I was just more so, ‘I’ve been hurt before but not like this,’ and I knew something was wrong.

“I had never felt that before and then I was just on my back looking up and everybody was, you know in those movies where you can hear everybody’s voices at one time but it doesn’t sound like one person’s? Everybody was kind of hazed out.

“I was crying once we were carted off the field, and then it all kind of hit me.”

He has come a long way and has his eye on a Week 1 return, although that is a lofty goal.

He had his surgery January 3. Playing in Week 1 would mean a recovery of just over eight months.

But this was the first time he opened up about his injury.

He and others are optimistic about what he can do upon his return. Kevin Murray, his father, said, “The best of Kyler is yet to come.”

That’s what Cardinals fans are hoping for.

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Cardinals had trade talks with Seahawks, Raiders before draft-day deal with Lions

Before the Cardinals traded up from the 12th pick to No. 6, they had talks with the Seahawks to move up to No. 5 and Raiders at No. 7.

During the 2024 NFL draft, the Arizona Cardinals were active in making trades. They made two deals in the first round, first moving down from the No. 3 overall pick to the 12th pick in the draft, making a deal with the Houston Texans.

However, their draft target was offensive lineman Paris Johnson and he wasn’t going to last to the 12th pick, so the Cardinals actively tried to move up.

Before they landed on a deal to move up to the sixth overall pick and trading with the Detroit Lions, they had talks with multiple teams, as shown on the latest episode of “Cardinals Flight Plan.”

General manager Monti Ossenfort tried to move up to the fifth overall pick, owned by the Seattle Seahawks. Seattle wanted to us the pick, so then the Cardinals proceeded by having talks with the Lions and Las Vegas Raiders.

It appears they had an offer from the Raiders they were considering but ultimately decided to take the offer from the Lions, sending them the 12th, 34th and 168th pick for No. 6 overall.

Ossenofort also considered talking with the Atlanta Falcons, who had the eighth overall pick as well, although he was not shown talking with their GM.

When the deal was done, head coach Jonathan Gannon was in awe of how it all went down.

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6 things we learned in the new episode of Cardinals Flight Plan

Check out some insights about the draft in the latest episode.

The Arizona Cardinals released a new episode of Flight Plan on Thursday focused on the 2020 draft and their six selected players. In the episode, we learn a few things about the process and the players.

What specifically did we learn?

Kliff Kingsbury was sold on Isaiah Simmons after combine interview

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Simmons impressed the Cardinals in the interview with how he was able to break down his assignment and with his confidence.

After the interview was over, Kingsbury told the rest of the room, “I’m good with that one at eight, if y’all are.”

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