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J.J. Watt told journalists on Tuesday that one amongst the causes he signed with the Arizona Cardinals became thanks to quarterback Kyler Murray.
“I am right here on myth of I judge in you,” Watt stated he told Murray through textual suppose material.
He also referred to as him a “younger, extraordinarily talented quarterback” all the diagram in which thru his introductory press conference.
Watt, 31, signed a two-year, $31 million deal with the Cardinals that involves $23 million in assured money. He posted 52 tackles (14 for loss), five sacks, 17 quarterback hits, an interception, two compelled fumbles, a fumble restoration and a touchdown in 2020, an great season for most avid gamers nonetheless barely under Watt’s lofty requirements.
With 101 sacks in 128 video games, Watt became the NFL’s preeminent interior pass-rusher all the diagram in which thru his top. But accidents appreciate slowed him down barely, costing him 24 video games from 2016-17 and eight video games in 2019.
Unruffled, when healthy Watt remains a power. The pairing of Watt and Chandler Jones is a humdrum prospect for opposing offenses.
And Murray is more than a handful for opposing defenses. Watt praised the team’s offense all the diagram in which thru his presser on Tuesday:
“The longer I checked out it, the more it correct, signs saved pointing relieve down right here. There’s heaps of inviting issues about what’s going down down right here in Arizona. I’ve continuously stated you opt to appreciate a quarterback in this league to appreciate an opportunity, and there would possibly be a younger, extraordinarily talented quarterback right here who can attain enormous issues and goes from Yr 2 to Yr 3 and can select a excellent higher soar to proceed to develop and development and be even better. Then you definately would possibly presumably appreciate obtained DeAndre Hopkins who’s one amongst the finest wide receivers in the league, I am obviously very conversant in.”
He also famed that his familiarity with defensive coordinator Vance Joseph, who became on the Texans’ coaching workers in Watt’s first three seasons, would build the transition to Arizona’s design more uncomplicated.
“Vance runs a identical design to Wade, which is a design I am very conversant in and surely pleased with and livid to play in,” he told journalists. “You obtained guys fancy Chandler Jones and Budda Baker and guys all over that defense which can presumably be surely younger and inviting guys succesful of get after it and in a verbalize to flee round and build some performs.”
