Temple, Arizona-When the Arizona Cardinals quarterrier, Kyler Murray, struck the large receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. on the right touch line at the start of the second quarter of the 20-13 Sunday victory on the Holy Orleans, it was a moment of Capstone for them and the team.
A constant subject of conversation all the offseason by the training camp and the first week of the regular season concerned the growth and development of the relationship of Murray and Harrison.
This pass was, for some, the piece which meant that the two understood it.
And, to a certain extent, it was also in Harrison and Murray.
“I think it’s always the biggest story between us is to be able to connect to these deep bullets,” said Harrison. “All the off -season I tried to tell him, get air on it. I think he has made air on it and I [went and] made a game there. “”
Murray does not think that this kind of game would have been completed between them last year. The reasons? They are small, he said. But they made it easy, a testimony of the work that the two put in this offseason.
“He played his ass [Sunday]”Said Murray.” I could feel confidence. I could feel the progress in his state of mind, in his game and I am very confident where he is, and I hope he feels good today. “
Murray could see Sunday that there was a difference to Harrison, who finished with five sockets for 71 yards and a touchdown.
“You can just say that you just watch him move, his manners, all of this,” said Murray. “I have been around him for two years now, so you may not see him, but I see him. I can feel him. He is just more confident in himself.”
Because as promising as this deep ball and their connection were with them, their coaches must see more.
Coach Jonathan Gannon said that a match was not enough to say if the Murray-Harrison connection had improved in full.
“We have to continue doing a good job with that, but I liked where it was,” said Gannon. “Obviously, effective, productive and explosive.”
The attacking coordinator attracted Petzing straddling the fence.
“Yes and no,” he said when they were asked if a match was enough to say how much they were.
“I am certainly satisfied with the way they played and the way they connected to a certain number of opportunities, but I think that is something that we are going to assess every week and each match during the year.”
For Gannon, the most impressive link between Murray and Harrison came later in the match on a third and 11 of the cardinals line of 5 yards a few minutes after the fourth quarter. Everything that is less of a first time on the game would have had the Arizona in the process of 20-10 years and giving real estate from New Orleans.
Murray struck Harrison on a quick pass, and he made his way to a gain of 12 yards, lowering his shoulder in the process. He said that after the match, the game hurt, but the pain was worth getting.
“I thought it was a big game in the match, but there were other times that Marvin did not get the ball that I liked what he was doing,” said Gannon. “You know that the passage game will pass [Trey McBride] And [Harrison]. Then, the role that the actors must get involved and do a good job, which they did.
“I know [Murray] A finished the ball at a lot of different guys, and they will make their hay when it is time, but with our first game leaders, we must make sure that it is on the point, and I thought it was. “”
