The Arizona Cardinals had their bye in the latest week possible, as they were off in Week 12. Obviously, the Cardinals had become accustomed to playing regularly for the first 11 weeks of the season, as they looked lost in their blowout loss to the Los Angeles Rams coming out of their bye week on Sunday.
Afterward, rookie quarterback Kyler Murray said that the 34-7 defeat to the Rams was probably the worst loss of his life and that the week off may have played a role in the disastrous loss:
“For me personally, I don’t like getting away from it,” Murray said of the Week 12 bye, according to Katherine Fitzgerald of The Arizona Republic. “I just like to keep playing. I’m not saying that if we didn’t have the bye we wouldn’t have come out here and lost today, or however we played, but that’s just how I feel. I just don’t like getting away from it and then coming back. … I don’t want to blame it on that, but everything, everything just felt off.”
Murray put forth one of his worst performances of the season in the defeat, completing 19 of his 34 throws for 163 yards and an interception. He did score a rushing touchdown for the Cardinals' lone score of the game, but that came in the fourth quarter when Arizona was down by 34 points, which felt hollow to Murray:
“I’m not into saying, ‘Oh we kind of got it going at the end,’ because they took out a couple of their guys,” Murray said. “I guess it feels good to score or see the ball get moving, but we got beat today pretty bad.”
To make matters worse, the Cards have now lost five games in a row and are just 3-8-1 on the year.
Murray and Co. will take on the surging Pittsburgh Steelers next Sunday.
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