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Arizona Cardinals 'quadruple down' on Kyler Murray social media promotion after criticism

jeremy cluff, arizona republic
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The Arizona Cardinals received some backlash on social media earlier this week for a post supportive of QB Kyler Murray that reminded people of a post the team made about Josh Rosen before the team ended up trading the QB in 2019.

But instead of being quiet and letting the post eventually fade away (it had 12 million views on X as of Wednesday morning), the Cardinals are doubling down on its praise of Murray on its X account.

After Arizona's initial "Our franchise QB" post on Monday, the Cardinals' social media team has since posted several other posts about Murray.

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Arizona Cardinals 'quadruple down' on Kyler Murray as QB1

Later Monday, the team posted a video of Murray making a very impressive play against the Atlanta Falcons last season with the message: "More of this in 2024."

On Tuesday, the team posted a story promoting Murray's community work with the caption: "All things K1, all week long. Looking back at some of our favorite memories we've had in the community with Kyler."

Later Tuesday, it had an X post with a painting of Murray with the caption: "The one and only."

Forget doubling down, make that quadrupling down on Murray.

Yes, the Cardinals' social media team is all-in on its franchise QB.

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Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray and head coach Jonathan Gannon during training camp at State Farm Stadium.
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray and head coach Jonathan Gannon during training camp at State Farm Stadium.

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Fans of the Cardinals on social media were still hesitant about the team's social media strategy to so vocally endorse Murray after being burned by the team's endorsement of Rosen on social media before the 2019 NFL Draft.

The Cardinals ended up picking Murray No. 1 overall in that 2019 NFL Draft and traded Rosen after the team had previously called the talk of the team doing just that "speculation" in its very own post, which included a quote from then-coach Kliff Kingsbury saying that Rosen was the Cardinals' "guy."

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