Kyler Murray gets very honest on serious injury, Cardinals' nightmare 2022 season

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Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray thinks whatever negative may have happened in 2022 "happened for a good reason" as he is entering the 2023 season in very positive spirits. The Cardinals were having a tough 2022 season and then starting quarterback Murray suffered a torn ACL injury.

Murray missed the rest of the season and the Cardinals finished the season on a seven-game losing streak and a 4-13 record. Murray almost certainly won't be ready to start the 2023 season in time but he is interested in complaining or anything like that.

"It's got to be a positive. There really is no option for it to be a negative. I feel you get your little grace period right after it happens, dwell on it, soak in it, let the feelings take over. After that, (expletive), we gotta go.

Life doesn't stop. The job doesn't stop. And I'm not going to stop," Murray said on the Flight Plan podcast.

Murray: Whatever happened, happened for a reason

The Cardinals' 2022 season was full of not-so-great moments. In the offseason, star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins was hit with a six-game suspension after a failed doping test.

During the season, Cardinals general manager Steve Keim stepped down from his general manager position, while Kliff Kingsbury was dismissed as head coach after the season ended. Also, there were Cardinals' struggles on the field and Murray's injury.

Murray, who is now 25 and entering his fifth season in the NFL, insists he and those around him will only learn from the 2022 season. "I'm thinking of stuff that I wasn't part of, like the draft, who we were gonna get, young players coming out.

The whole (last) year was (expletive). It happened for a reason. The things we were doing weren't sustainable for success. It was necessary and in turn good will come out of what happened," Murray said. It remains to be seen if Murray can bounce back in 2023.