Murray signed a hefty contract extension worth $230.5 million, including $160 million in guaranteed money. He will average more than $46 million a season as the second-highest paid quarterback in the NFL. That\u2019s a significant investment in a quarterback who has only one postseason game under his belt and has yet to win a playoff game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Head coach Kliff Kingsbury could become one of the first head coaches to lose his job when the season ends. Kingsbury was on thin ice all season, but could have saved his job by guiding the Cardinals to a playoff victory. At this point, it looks like the banged-up Cardinals could lose their final three games and end the season on a seven-game losing streak with a 4-13 record.<\/p>\n
In three starts this season, McCoy was 1-2. He completed 68.2% of his passes for 780 yards, one touchdown, and three interceptions. McCoy got hit in the head during a loss against the Denver Broncos in Week 15 and suffered a concussion. McSorley finished the game and threw for 95 yards and two interceptions in the loss.<\/p>\n
McSorley is a former Penn State quarterback who has never started an NFL game before. He spent the last two seasons with the Baltimore Ravens as a backup quarterback before joining the Cardinals this season.<\/p>\n
He’s one of those guys, I hate to use the term ‘gamer,’ but he’s got a lot of moxie, plays with a lot of confidence,”<\/strong> said Kingsbury. “Teammates respond to that.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nMcSorley completed only 18-for-39 passes in his career for a 46.2% success rate. He passed for 356 yards, one touchdown, and three interceptions in mostly garbage time.<\/p>\n
The Cards are +7.5 home dogs when they host the Bucs on Christmas evening on a Sunday Night Football<\/em>\u00a0national broadcast. Most of the sportsbooks in Las Vegas installed the Bus as a -7.5 favorite.<\/p>\nThe Cardinals are 6-8 against the spread this season, but have the worst betting record in the NFL with a 3-10-1 ATS clip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Arizona Cardinals can’t catch a break in the injury department, and have no choice except to start third-string quarterback Trace McSorley against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Christmas night. Colt McCoy hasn’t cleared the concussion protocol, so McSorley is the next man up on the depth chart. McCoy was only starting in place of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":249425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82961,1074],"tags":[81807,84234,81004,82819,84233],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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