The Arizona Cardinals tried to deflect. Both rookie coach Kliff Kingsbury and general manager Steve Keim insisted time and again throughout the pre-draft process that Josh Rosen was their team's quarterback of the present and future. Regardless, no one was surprised when the No. 10 overall pick of last year's draft was traded to the Miami Dolphins, and even less surprising was the Cardinals' justification for moving on from him so soon: the opportunity to build around Kyler Murray.

Kingsbury was enamored with the Oklahoma Sooners quarterback well before he was named Arizona's head coach in January, and even before his team earned the top overall pick of the 2019 NFL Draft. Murray doesn't just have generational pass-run potential, but the exact package of skills and experience needed to help Kingsbury transition the offensive concepts that made him a star collegiate coach to the next level.

And as training camp begins, Murray is adamant, despite many doubts across the football world, that Arizona's offensive attack will be effective.

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“I don't see why everybody thinks that it can't be successful,” he said, per ESPN's Josh Weinfuss. “It's just like any other offense. It's an offense. We work at it, we practice it and it's our job to execute it. If we don't, then it won't be successful but if we do, like I said, it works at the college level. I don't see how it couldn't work at the pro level.

“So, it's our job to make you believe in that.”

We'll begin finding out soon enough. Murray and the Cardinals play their first exhibition game on August 8 against the Los Angeles Chargers.