Kyler Murray's measurements are in! "I try not to get hit in the first place," Murray said, "so we'll see how I do this year.". You must be logged in to leave a comment. So what you have to do with an elite athlete is you've got to keep them elite.". But they're also impressed that a quarterback is willing to put his body through that type of weight training. "So there's always been an emphasis for him to make sure that his hamstrings were strong and were able to handle the explosiveness. He's fast, but when he has a little bit more meat on his bones, he can take hits, so that's going to be good for him. "So when he does hit on the brakes, it's gonna require a whole lot more from him on the back side," Baca said. "You think you saw a lot of that progression toward the end of the season and just speaking with him, his confidence level, his understanding of our system is night and day from where it was last year, and so we're really fired up to get him out there and try to take that next step this season.". The two started working together when Murray was a sophomore at Allen High School and Baca was just beginning at Performance Course, the gym in Allen, Texas, that Murray has worked with in one way or another for the past seven years. • Colts' Rivers toes line on friendly trash talk All that put a little more pressure on Baca, who put into action a workout plan designed by the Cardinals' Morris. Murray worked out four days a week with Baca at either 9 a.m. or 11 a.m. and threw two to three days a week with his father, Kevin Murray, a renowned quarterbacks coach in the Dallas area. “Slight” was the word many in the NFL used for Murray’s build coming out of Oklahoma. To build his leg strength, Murray used a pit shark, a smaller, shorter machine used for belt squats around the waist instead of a traditional back-loaded bar squat. Learn how your comment data is processed. TEMPE, Ariz. -- When Kyler Murray returned home to Texas after his rookie season with the Arizona Cardinals, he took two weeks off to rest, recover and recuperate, then it was off to the daily grind of preparing for Year 2. "His fast-twitch muscle fibers, the ones that he was already born with, it keeps those sharp. Kyler Murray returned to Arizona weighing around 205 pounds but "looks really big." "It's not easy to have to do that at his position in the history of the league, and to live to tell about it.". Maintaining Murray's speed and quickness was both an art and a science. Baca isn't afraid to call Murray a "prima donna" to his face but said it's all in good fun. It just happened. The Cardinals still list Kyler Murray at 207 pounds, the same as he weighed when he arrived in Arizona. One way Baca did that was by using the force-velocity curve when handling Murray's speed. Few, if any, know Murray's body like Baca. The goal was to send Murray back to Arizona for training camp at a weight at which he could afford to lose 10 to 15 pounds during the season and it wouldn't be an issue. “Most quarterbacks aren’t too willing to go in there and bench and do biceps. The ultimate goal, Baca said, is to make sure Murray will be as fast in the fourth quarter as he is in the first quarter. It just happened. But yes, Murray is a little bigger. But he's definitely bulked up and that'll be good for him, especially in this league. To build his leg strength, Murray used a pit shark, a smaller, shorter machine used for belt squats around the waist instead of a … He still stands only 5 foot 10, but he looks bigger. • No one can match Brees' MNF milestones But he’s all about it. Then his recovery between sets was about 40 seconds -- the time of an NFL play clock -- so his workouts mirrored what his body would be going through on the field during a game. Among the priorities this offseason was to get Murray's weight up a little, but it wasn't necessarily his intention to bulk up to the point where it'd become a topic of conversation. Baca was careful not to mess with one of Murray's most important weapons. Let's go!" He gets after it in the weight room.”. By lifting lower weights quickly, Murray was able to keep his reps in the four-to-six-second range, which is about the time of an average NFL play. "We're always in there hyping him up a little in the weight room because he knows he got a little swole and got a big chest," wide receiver Christian Kirk said after a chuckle. I thought he struggled with the out routes and the deep ball. Watch on ESPN+. That's just the way it goes. 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