Former Cardinals exec Steve Keim scrutinizes Kyler Murray, says QB has 'got to prove himself'

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The Arizona Cardinals are coming off a disappointing 4-13 season. The lackluster campaign resulted in the dismissal of head coach Kliff Kingsbury.

The team's longtime general manager, Steve Keim, who took an indefinite health-related absence late in the season, decided to step away to focus on his health, the club announced in January.

Two-time Pro Bowl quarterback Kyler Murray threw for 2,368 yards over 11 games in 2022, but he was sidelined with an injury for the final six games of the regular season. Murray faces a considerable amount of criticism as he enters the 2023 campaign, but the quarterback recently revealed he will go into this year with a different mindset.

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Quarterback Kyler Murray of the Arizona Cardinals leaves a press conference that introduced Jonathan Gannon as the new head coach at Dignity Health Arizona Cardinals Training Center on February 16, 2023, in Tempe, Arizona. (Chris Coduto/Getty Images)

"I’m going to be coachable, and I’m going to do it to the best of my ability, but if the s--t ain’t working, at some point we all have to look in the mirror," Murray said via the Cardinals website.

But Keim did not seem to approve of the phrasing of Murray's recent remarks.

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"I think in terms of quarterbacks, what he said, you don’t love it just because of the standpoint when he added the word 'but' in, generally behind a positive, the word 'but' does not end in a positive light," Keim said during a recent appearance on "The Herd with Colin Cowherd."

Keim added that as the