Cardinals’ Kyler Murray on Seahawks loss: ‘I let the team down’

GLENDALE — Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray didn’t try to butter anything up following his team’s 30-18 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.

A lot of the defeat falls on him and the two ugly interceptions he threw.

“I feel like I let the team down today. It’s self-explanatory. Can’t do that,” Murray said postgame.

Throwing a pair of interceptions for the second time in as many weeks, Murray has regressed from his early season successes.

That low interception total that was lauded by many 10 games in? That’s feels like another season at this rate following five picks in the three games since coming off the bye.

While many expected a boost from Murray and the Cardinals with the added rest, it’s been anything but.

Murray deserves his share of the blame, but those around him haven’t necessarily played clean football. From the mountain of penalties to an ineffectiveness on third down and everything else in between, the Cardinals are zigging when they should be zagging.

“Takeaways hurt,” head coach Jonathan Gannon said when asked about the biggest issues offensively. “Credit to K1, because I think that was back-to-back and he battled and made some plays there and we got back in the game. The run game, I thought we popped some runs, but not consistent enough on third down. I didn’t think we operated great on third down there, but just gotta play a little big cleaner and score a couple more points.

“Defensively, the run game wasn’t great. … And then on third down, give credit to (Seattle), they did a couple different, unique things that they haven’t shown, which they got a say, too. But we got to get off the field a little bit better on third down.”

And with the losses piling up, Arizona’s playoff chances have taken some serious hits, turning the once promising year into what feels like an early exit from playoff contention after Week 14’s loss.

Murray, however, isn’t bowing out just yet on this iteration of the Cardinals.

“I’m super confident when I go to sleep at night in this locker room and the guys I play football with,” Murray said. “I have no worry or fear when I step on the field with them at all. And I mean that wholeheartedly.”

“Just haven’t finished, penalties, turnovers and just not executing at crucial times at the game will get you beat.”

Something for the Kyler Murray critics

Murray’s play the last few weeks have been big factors in Arizona’s three-game losing streak.

The noise around the quarterback has only gotten louder with each interception and L.

As for what Gannon thinks about the K1 critics?

“The reason we’re playing meaningful games in December right now, he’s a huge piece to that,” the head coach said. “That’s what I would tell them.”

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