For Pete's Sake

After picking Kyler Murray, Cardinals were roasted for this tweet about Josh Rosen

These days, it’s a good idea for a player to comb through old social media messages and delete some of those embarrassing ones.

The Arizona Cardinals should have done the same.

After the Cardinals selected Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray with the first overall pick in Thursday night’s NFL Draft, a lot of people on Twitter were making fun of Arizona for a tweet in February.

The tweet included a picture of quarterback Josh Rosen with this quote from Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury: “Josh is our guy.”

Um, now Josh is going to be a backup.

Here is the original tweet:

And this is what people were saying about that tweet:

This story was originally published April 25, 2019 at 8:13 PM.

Pete Grathoff
The Kansas City Star
From covering the World Series to the World Cup, Pete Grathoff has done a little bit of everything since joining The Kansas City Star in 1997.
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