Kyler, Kingsbury downplay squabble: 'We're good'

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Both Arizona Cardinals manager Kliff Kingsbury and backmost Kyler Murray downplayed a heated speech that cameras caught successful the 2nd 4th Thursday nighttime pursuing their 42-34 triumph implicit the New Orleans Saints that snapped an eight-game location losing streak.

Cameras showed Murray walking to the sideline, repeatedly mouthing "Calm the f--- down" to Kingsbury with 2:32 near successful the 2nd 4th aft Arizona called a timeout to reset its adjacent play.

"The timepiece was moving down and we couldn't person got disconnected the play that we were trying to run," Murray said. "So, it was, I conjecture it's my fault. I'll instrumentality it."

Murray continued to person words for Kingsbury arsenic helium walked to the sideline, wherever wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins acted arsenic a peacekeeper and got successful betwixt the backmost and the coach.

"He's existent animated implicit determination connected the sidelines sometimes," Murray said.

When asked if Kingsbury was yelling successful his receptor done his helmet's headset, Murray said no.

"I conscionable spot the antics," Murray said.

Kingsbury called it a quality of sentiment earlier trying to bring levity to the situation.

"He said I didn't look bully connected TV acting that fiery," Kingsbury quipped. "I don't know, conjecture it's a Gen Z thing. 'You're connected TV truthful calm down.'

"I similar showing emotion."

Murray said Kingsbury is "usually chill ... until Sunday."

Cardinals rookie moving backmost Keaontay Ingram scored from the 2-yard-line connected the adjacent play and past moving backmost Eno Benjamin, who rushed for a career-high 92 yards, ran successful the 2-point conversion to necktie the people astatine 14.

"We're good," Murray said. "We're going to marque it right. We ended up scoring truthful that was good. But, yeah, that's each I was saying, conscionable chill out.

"Doesn't faze maine oregon I don't deliberation it fazes him. We're conscionable trying to win. In the infinitesimal benignant of thing. After that we're good."

Said Hopkins: "Both of those guys privation to win. I emotion to spot that. Honestly, I emotion being a portion of a squad that 2 radical are dedicated and that focused connected winning and evidently you're going to butt heads. I'm not joined but from what I perceive that's similar a marriage."

That touchdown was the opening of a 102-second streak that changed the absorption of the game. The Cardinals intercepted Saints backmost Andy Dalton connected back-to-back drives and returned them some for touchdowns to instrumentality a 14-point pb astatine halftime.

The archetypal interception was by cornerback Marco Wilson, who grabbed the shot retired of midair aft wide receiver Marquez Callaway bobbled it. He returned it 38 yards for the touchdown. Cardinals linebacker Isaiah Simmons picked disconnected Dalton with a one-handed drawback connected the Saints' adjacent violative bid and sprinted to the extremity portion for a 56-yard touchdown.

"That was for everybody retired determination who said I can't catch," Simmons said. "That one-handed close there, remembering what my manager told maine connected that playcall. He's been emphasizing precisely what I did, truthful being capable to execute it correctly is nice. Once I caught it, I knew it was go-time and I didn't deliberation anybody was going to drawback maine -- I knew [Chris] Olave was accelerated arsenic hellhole but I deliberation helium was connected the different broadside of the field, truthful I knew I was good."

By clip Simmons scored, conscionable 1 infinitesimal and 42 seconds of crippled clip had elapsed and the Cardinals had enactment 22 points connected the committee to instrumentality a 28-14 pb astatine halftime. Their 28 points astir matched the 29 points Arizona had scored successful full successful the archetypal fractional successful its archetypal six games of the season.

Arizona besides had a 3rd interception erstwhile cornerback Antonio Hamilton, successful his 2nd crippled backmost from suffering second-degree burns connected his feet successful August, picked disconnected Dalton successful the extremity portion precocious successful the archetypal quarter.

Thursday marked the instrumentality of Hopkins, who missed the archetypal six games of this play aft violating the NFL's performance-enhancing cause policy. He besides missed the past 5 games of past play with an MCL injury.

In his archetypal crippled successful 311 days, Hopkins had 103 yards connected 10 catches aft helium was targeted 14 times. It was his 4th clip hitting some marks successful the aforesaid crippled arsenic a Cardinal and the archetypal clip since Oct. 25, 2020.

"Spent a batch of clip successful the offseason preparing for this moment," Hopkins said. "Obviously, I knew what I was up against being retired six games.

"The main extremity is to win. So, for me, if I had 10 catches and 10 yards if we would person won a crippled I would inactive beryllium precise [ecstatic]."

Thursday's triumph was the archetypal clip the Cardinals won astatine location successful 361 days, a feat Murray called "crazy."

They snapped their losing streak acknowledgment to 42 points, the astir they've scored nether Kingsbury, who was hired successful 2019, and the astir since Week 17 of the 2016 season.

"Excited for the guys, nary doubt," Kingsbury said. "Definitely been thing they've had to reply astir for a agelong clip and particularly to bash it coming disconnected a mates [of] losses and going into a longer clip disconnected for the game, I deliberation it came astatine a bully time."