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Arizona Cardinals includes a very young receiving group.With the exception Youth Corey Peters Jersey , of course, of Larry Fitzgerald, who turned 35 over the weekend.The other four at the position are rookies Christian Kirk and Trent Sherfield, second-year player Chad Williams and fourth-year pro J.J. Nelson.The team released five-year NFL veteran Brice Butler and Greg Little, who was trying to get back in the NFL after a three-year absence."Experience is good when it's proven, when guys continue to progress and perform," Wilks said after the team practiced on Monday. "I don't get caught up 鈥?and I told you guys this from day one 鈥?I don't mind playing rookies. That's my mindset. I'm going to play the guys that deserve the right to play, and most importantly, we kept the guys that I felt deserved the right to be here."Butler was signed in the offseason as a free agent after catching 15 passes for 317 yards and three touchdowns in 13 games for Dallas last season.Kirk, a second-round pick from Texas A&M, is a dynamic player who figures to return punts and could be the team's No. 2 receiver. Williams, after a rough rookie season, looked good in the preseason. Nelson has been inconsistent, but is a legitimate deep threat and caught 29 passes for 508 yards and two touchdowns for Arizona last season.The only real surprise out of the group would be Sherfield, an undrafted free agent out of Vanderbilt."Trent Sherfield Stitched Antoine Bethea Jersey , as I talked about him throughout training camp, continued to progress," Wilks said. "He showed great things each and every day, made plays in the games, which is so important. I just love his approach and how he comes to work every day. He works hard, he's smart and dedicated to his craft."Sherfield said that, when he heard the news he had made the team, "it wasn't really shocking but it felt really good."He said his confidence stemmed from "the positive feedback I was getting. Just being able to hear those positive things kind of gave me a little bit more motivation to being able to know I could make the roster."The youngsters will look to 11-time Pro Bowl selection Fitzgerald, entering his 15th NFL season, for guidance."With Larry leading us it's going to be a fun season," Sherfield said. "We have a lot of young guys, a lot of names a lot of people probably don't know about. But in that room we have a lot of guys that are going to work hard ... We've been pushing each other since the spring."Sherfield is one of four undrafted rookies to make the Arizona roster, joining linebacker Dennis Gardeck from Sioux Falls, cornerback Deatrick Nichols from South Florida and linebacker Zeke Turner from Washington.Wilks kept only one fullback, Derrick Coleman Youth Antoine Bethea Jersey , but brought Elijhaa Penny back on the practice squad. Charles Kanoff, the fourth quarterback throughout camp behind Sam Bradford, Josh Rosen and Mike Glennon, also is on the practice squad. Kanoff is an undrafted free agent from Princeton.On Sunday, the Cardinals made two moves that will alter the makeup of the backup group along the offensive line, The team released Evan Boehm, a 2016 fourth-round draft pick from Missouri who played center and guard/tackle Will Holden, a fifth-round pick last season out of Vanderbilt.They signed Jeremy Vujnovich, who started 16 games at right guard for Indianapolis last season, and claimed offensive lineman Blaine Clausell off waivers from Carolina. Clausell, 26, has spent most of his career on practice squads 鈥?with Baltimore, New England and Carolina. He appeared in three games for Washington in 2016."Every time I stood in front of you guys, you guys kept talking about the backups (on the offensive line)," Wilks deadpanned to reporters. "So Stitched Josh Bynes Jersey , I took your advice, and we tried to look to improve there. We brought in some guys that we felt that had some playing experience, some guys that had started in some games, and I think, again, they fit our mold. They fit our bill."Arizona also claimed defensive tackle Garrison Smith off waivers from Atlanta and signed free agent defensive end Zach Moore.The Cardinals have Tuesday off and return Wednesday to prepare for Sunday's season opener at home against Washington. I have to admit—-I am wrong about the Cardinals and QB Kyler Murray.It’s not necessarily that I am wrong about Murray’s talents—-it’s just that I have been clinging to an impossible dream, because..."I have to admit—-I am wrong about the Cardinals and QB Kyler Murray.It’s not necessarily that I am wrong about Murray’s talents—-it’s just that I have been clinging to an impossible dream, because the Cardinals are all-in on Josh Rosen.As the vast majority of you have understood—-Michael Bidwill, Steve Keim. Adrian Wilson and, most importantly,Kliff Kingsbury—-are all-in on Josh Rosen.On Doug and Wolf this morning, Michael Bidwill brought perfect clarity to the situation when he informed Cardinals’ fans that Kliff Kingsbury was the only coach they interviewed who asked the Cardinals to set up video clips of Josh Rosen so that Kingsbury could show Bidwill, Keim and Adrian Wilson precisely what he would do to help Rosen and the offense improve.Kingsbury explained how he would protect Rosen better and he explained how he would help Rosen read defenses more effectively during the pre-snap and how he could help Rosen throw with stronger precision.When asked by Doug whether the Cardinals are worried that hiring a college coach with no NFL coaching experience and a losing record as a college head coach, Bidwill said that Kingsbury is “one of the great offensive minds in all of football” and that “in his six years as a college OC (2) and HC (4), his offenses have averaged 39.6 points per game Youth Josh Bynes Jersey , versus strong competition.”Ideally, it would be best for the Cardinals to cash in on Rosen’s talents and to use every resource they have to make the Cardinals’ roster one of the deepest and most talented in the NFL.This is exactly what Bidwill, Keim, Wilson and Kingsbury have in mind. In fact, Bidwill went as far as to say that “we intend to flip this around quickly so that the fans at State Farm Stadium will be able to see an exciting brand of football this fall.”I was drawn to Kyler Murray because of his electrifying mobility and baseball-like accuracy with the football. I believe he is going to be a nightmare for opposing teams, particularly in the red zone, where if he gets a small crease he is going to be doing his patented little hop over the goal line. As Cardinals’ fans we haven’t seen that type of mobility from our QBs in ages—-really we would have to go back to Jake Plummer to get any semblance of one.As much as we have lamented the year-in and year-out struggles of our offensive lines, one of the best ways to take the pressure off of an offensive line is to have a supremely mobile QB. Mobile QBs actually slow down pass rushes and make them stay in the lanes for fear of the QB scramble. There is no question that the Cardinals change their pass rush when they play Russell Wilson—-delivering controlled rushes from the edges so as not to give up contain—-and tight lane rushes from the inside so as not to give Wilson an easy escape into daylight.Josh Rosen is a better athlete than advertised—-and he showed last year that at times he can use his feet to escape pressure. This year he is in an offense that will be more disciplined, diverse and aggressive. This year he has a head coach who knows what it takes to get the most out of the QB position.Perhaps it was a harbinger of sorts, but last night when I heard that the Oakland A’s (who like every other MLB team received a pre-MLB 2018 draft letter from Kyle Murray assuring all of them that he was “100% committed to baseball”) while answering media questions about whether Murray would show up for spring training and thus honor the $5M commitment the A’s made to him as the #9 pick) learned—-just as you and I did—-via Twitter that Murray is now “100% committed to football” and that “football has always been the love of my life.”That Murray’s tweet made no mention at all of the A’s or offered no thanks for their commitment to him—-I thought wow, this is disgraceful.Then on the NFL Network last night, they showed an interview of Murray given by Deion Sanders, in which Sanders baited Murray with the question as to whether Murray had a higher purpose for playing football this past season, even though he had signed with the A’s. Murray took the bait, hook Stitched Andy Lee Jersey , line and sinker—-and said, “well, yeah, I did.”The news this morning that Murray just hired Kliff Kingsbury’s agent would have given me goosebumps yesterday—-but today not so much.What makes this scenario worse for me is that I am a life-long Oakland A’s fan. My boyhood baseball idols were Jim “Catfish” Hunter and Joe Rudi. Perhaps subconsciously I have been wishing that if my A’s couldn’t cash in on Murray, then at least my Cardinals could.For those who have felt I have “hated” Josh Rosen—-I can honestly say that it hasn’t been hate for Rosen, it’s been an avid love for Murray in Kingsbury’s Air Raid.I have had my concerns about Rosen well before the Cardinals drafted him. I have also been fascinated with his potential—-I think we all are.But now I place my faith in Kliff Kingsbury and Tom Clements. If anyone can bring out the best in Josh Rosen and all of the Cardinals’ QBs, I eagerly trust that Kingsbury and Clements can.To the fans at ROTB—-those of you who said the Cardinals are all-in on Rosen—-you were right. As the poet Langston Hughes poses in in the final line of his poem “Harlem,” to the question of “what happens to a dream deferred?”...he asks, “Or—-does it explode?”However—-I continue to cling to the belief that Kyler Murray is the better fit for Kingsbury’s offense. But, today, seemingly for certain, that’s a point that has been rendered completely moot by the owner and team president of the Arizona Cardinals.