Get this: Kyler Murray, now balling out for the Minnesota Vikings, is sitting at 3-0 in games he’s actually finished. That’s a huge stat on its own, but it gets even wilder: Murray has already racked up as many winning starts in Minnesota as *all other Arizona Cardinals quarterbacks combined* have since his ACL tear back in 2022. Let that sink in for a second, because it is absolutely brutal for anyone still rooting for the desert birds.
The “Craziest Stat” That Shows Arizona’s QB Woes
Seriously, NFL+ host Brett Kollmann dropped this bomb on Tuesday, calling it the “craziest stat of the week.” Murray’s ACL tear was four years ago, and since then, the Cardinals have been a revolving door of QBs, none of whom could consistently find the W column. Look at the wreckage: Arizona is a measly 1-4 this season. They only managed a single win in all of 2025 after Murray was sidelined for the year with a foot injury. Go back to 2023, and the Cards went a dismal 1-8 in the nine games Murray missed while still recovering from that initial ACL tear. And to cap it off, they didn’t win a single one of their final four games in 2022 after Murray first went down. It’s a rough stretch, and Murray, despite his own injury history, has somehow managed to equal that entire win output in just three full games.
Murray’s Vikings Roll On While the Cardinals Search For Answers
The Vikings are flying high at 5-0, and while Murray got knocked out of their season opener against the Packers on the third offensive series, he’s been clutch when he’s played a full game. That one-year, $1.3 million deal the Vikings gave him? Looking like an absolute steal right now. Sure, he missed 27 starts from 2022 through 2025 in Arizona, where his record was 38-48-1 over seven seasons, but you could argue he was never surrounded by a truly elite supporting cast there. In Minnesota, he’s still finding his rhythm in Kevin O’Connell’s system, but the dude’s already putting up numbers: 13/14 against the Dolphins in Week 4, and 24/30 passes completed last Sunday against the Saints.
Meanwhile, back in Arizona, Jacoby Brissett is doing… okay, I guess. He’s completed 66.3% of his passes for 1,110 yards, nine touchdowns, and five interceptions, but his average of only 5.4 yards per attempt isn’t exactly lighting up the scoreboard. First-year head coach Mike LaFleur has his work cut out for him guiding his team through a tough NFC West. Murray’s departure and immediate impact elsewhere just highlights that the Cardinals’ problems always ran way deeper than just one quarterback. They’ve got issues that extend far beyond who’s under center, and this stat just screams it. What a mess.
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Originally reported by Yahoo Sports.
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