The Arizona Cardinals will begin their offseason program on April 22, beginning with strength and conditioning and then leading up to OTAs and minicamp, They will finish the offseason program and break for the summer until training camp after June 12. Training camp doesn't pick up until the end of July.
Quarterback Kyler Murray would love to see the offseason schedule changed.
Appearing on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM, he was asked about OTAs and the offseason.
"The only knock I have on OTAs would probably be the fact that we come together and then we have to leave for a month as you're training together" he said. "You're kind of building up this momentum and then everybody just goes away. So if it was up to me, either you push back OTAs and just once you start and you get there, you kind of roll on into the season that way.
This was something that the league and the NFLPA were supposedly going to discuss for the offseason schedule. Last offseason there was talk of perhaps giving players more time off before the offseason program, starting it later and having a longer ramp-up leading in to camp, so rather than workouts beginning in April, they perhaps would start at the end of May and the three phases of the offseason program would lead right into training camp and into the season.
But that hasn't happened yet, so Murray will probably, in the weeks leading up to camp, organize a time when he and his receivers and skill players can get together and work out and practice together, just as he did last offseason.
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