Former Cardinals Patrick Peterson, Chase Edmonds believe Kyler Murray will leave Arizona

The offseason standoff between Kyler Murray and the Arizona Cardinals is rolling right along with the starting quarterback skipping out on offseason workouts and saying he won't attend unless he has a new contract. 

According to two former Cardinals, however, Murray already has his foot out the door thanks to the team's culture.

On CBS Sports' "All Things Considered" podcast this week, ex-Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson and running back Chase Edmonds expressed how little the whole debacle surprises them.

"When you see (good) culture teams in the NFL, like the Baltimore Ravens, the New Orleans Saints, the San Francisco 49ers, those teams — no matter how talented they look, bro, from top to bottom — they just somehow how to find a way to win damn games," said Edmonds, who played with Murray for three seasons before going to the Miami Dolphins. "Even like Mike Tomlin with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Some teams have that culture, and some teams don't. I feel like that's kinda what it was for us."

Both veterans agreed Arizona's take on how to win isn't aligned with Murray's, and that even a big paycheck wouldn't erase how the Cardinals fizzled late in the last two seasons.

"I just know, especially knowing how the last two years (have) ended, meaning 2021 and 2020, and knowing the type of competitor that K1 is, and the type of winner that he wants to be," Edmonds said. "I knew there was gonna be, at some point, some things happening."

Peterson, who played a decade in Arizona and co-hosts the podcast, said he thinks Murray is too competitive to stay with the Cardinals based on how they're doing things.

"He's a competitor," Peterson said. "And I feel like, no disrespect to the Arizona Cardinals, I feel like they don't put the team in a position to be successful year after year after year. And Kyler Murray's not gonna sit around and wait for that."