Arizona Cardinals

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray will miss the rest of the season after tearing his ACL during Monday night's game against the New England Patriots.

Kyler Murray was hurt on the third play of the game, immediately changing the complexion of the evening. The fourth-year quarterback was flushed out of the pocket and running to his right when he tried to juke past a Patriots defender, but tumbled to the grass in obvious pain.

Even if the postseason is a long shot, the final five games of the season provide plenty of intrigue for the Cardinals (4-8). The team’s performance over the next month could decide whether owner Michael Bidwill ends up making big changes.

The Minnesota Vikings cornerback — who played his first 10 seasons with the Arizona Cardinals — said on his "All Things Covered" podcast that "Kyler Murray don’t care about nobody but Kyler Murray."

The Cardinals (4-8) couldn’t hold a fourth-quarter lead Sunday, and the Los Angeles Chargers rallied for a 25-24 win.

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The clock may be ticking on coach Kliff Kingsbury’s time in the desert. "We had our chances. Both teams played well enough to win," the head coach said. "They made the plays at the end and we didn’t."

Justin Herbert threw a 1-yard touchdown pass to Austin Ekeler with 15 seconds left, then hit Gerald Everett for the decisive conversion to give the Los Angeles Chargers a 25-24 win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.

The Cardinals have a 1-4 record in their home stadium this year and are just 4-9 in Arizona over the past two seasons. They’re 11-3 in road games over the same stretch.

The Cardinals (4-7) have lost three of their past four games, been hit by myriad of injuries and are now dealing with the fallout of losing assistant coach Sean Kugler, who was fired after an alleged incident in Mexico City the night before the team’s embarrassing 38-10 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.

There are many legitimate reasons for Arizona's problems, particularly on offense. The biggest one is injuries: starting quarterback Kyler Murray missed his second straight game with a sore hamstring, pushing backup Colt McCoy into action again.

Jimmy Garoppolo threw four touchdown passes, including two each to Brandon Aiyuk and George Kittle, and the San Francisco 49ers won their third straight game by blowing past the Arizona Cardinals in Mexico City.

The 49ers and Cardinals meet in Mexico City on Monday night in a showdown between division rivals.

Backup quarterback Colt McCoy’s steady influence helped the Arizona Cardinals to some badly needed medicine: Vitamin W.

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Colt McCoy passed for 238 yards in his first start of the season, James Conner rushed for two touchdowns and the Arizona Cardinals hung on for a 27-17 victory Sunday over the Los Angeles Rams, who lost Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp to a possibly serious ankle injury.

The Rams are 8 games removed from their Super Bowl victory. The Cardinals are just 9 games removed from an 11-win season and a playoff appearance. Yet the stakes seem fairly high for these two struggling NFC West rivals in their second meeting of the new season, and it's because both realize they're running out of time to write a proper sequel to last year's successes.