Cardinals turn to Jacoby Brissett with Kyler Murray unlikely for Colts game

Arizona backmost Kyler Murray is not expected to play Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts aft suffering a ft wounded past weekend. He practiced lone connected Friday, leaving seasoned Jacoby Brissett successful enactment to commencement astatine Lucas Oil Stadium, the gathering wherever helium played from 2017 to 2020.

Brissett has 53 starts implicit 10 seasons, with a 19–34 grounds and 53 touchdown passes. His astir caller commencement came successful Week 5 past play for New England. He opened that twelvemonth arsenic the starter, won the opener, past dropped the adjacent 4 earlier helium was benched. The résumé is acquainted astir the league, yet his beingness this week brought calm wrong Arizona’s locker room.

“I person afloat spot successful Jacoby,” wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. said. “I deliberation the biggest thing, he’s been specified a bully person and mentor for maine since helium got here.”

Trust built aft hours

Harrison said the 2 person been throwing unneurotic aft practices adjacent earlier Murray’s injury, a mode to support Brissett’s limb escaped and to bargain snaps helium does not get arsenic the backup. That other clip has turned into regular and a relationship. It matters now, with timing routes and tiny checks that tin determine 3rd downs against a defence that throws antithetic looks, specified arsenic disguised pressures.

Tight extremity Trey McBride echoed that confidence. “I deliberation Jacoby’s, obviously, he’s played a agelong clip successful this league,” McBride said. “He’s played for a batch of antithetic teams. He’s played for a batch of antithetic receivers, came successful the mediate of play started, he’s done it all. So, he’s a feline that I person afloat assurance successful and a feline that commands the huddle, understands what he’s doing, and he’s going to spell retired determination and marque plays and he’s going to bash the close thing.”

If Murray cannot go, Arizona volition thin connected a seasoned who knows the building, the moment, and the job.