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Earlier this month, some Arizona Cardinals and Kyler Murray fans expressed outrage over the quarterback’s rating in the Madden NFL 22 video game.
A ratings adjuster for the game recently defended the rating Murray received in an interview with USA TODAY Sports.
Murray is an 82 rating in the game, 13th among quarterbacks.
“82 in our eyes really isn’t a bad rating,” Clint Oldenburg, the Madden ratings adjuster, told USA TODAY Sports’ Mackenzie Salmon. “He’s the thirteenth highest rated quarterback and that puts him really above average. We think he is an elite athlete, he’s got a great arm. Both his athleticism and arm allow him to get out of trouble that other quarterbacks can’t.”
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Murray opened the 2021 version of the game as a 77, so he is opening the 2022 version with a higher rating at 82.
Still, azcentral sports readers were not impressed with his rating in the game.
In a poll earlier this month, 35% of voters said is 82 rating was “too low” and 34.3% voted that it was “ridiculously too low.” 22.2% responded that it was “just about right” while 8.4% of voters in the poll votes that it was “too high.”
Oldenburg said that he expected Murray’s rating to continue to improve in the game.
“Ultimately what’s holding him back, from I’m guessing his fans want him to be 90-plus like everyone else, is his passing accuracy,” Oldenburg told USA TODAY Sports. “He was 22nd in deep passing accuracy and he was 21st in catchable balls on deep passes so that is really what we are waiting to see him improve on, which we are fully confident that he will.”
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‘Flat out disrespectful’ Madden rating for Kyler Murray
Oldenburg’s comments probably won’t placate many Cardinals and Murray fans, who were really not pleased with his rating in Madden NFL 22.
Motivation for Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray?
Murray, an avid gamer, has not commented on his 2022 Madden rating, but he did comment on his 2021 rating.
“Honestly, I thought y’all were joking when you said that,” Murray said of his rating last season on an appearance on ESPN’s First Take. “I ended the year at a 77. I can’t really say everything I want to say on the air right now, but I kind of take it as disrespect, but it is what it is. Like I said, I’ll let my play speak for itself, so hopefully it’ll bump up during the year…
“I’m really shocked that I’m a 77 overall. I don’t really know what to say. Ah, man. That’s tough.”
During his appearance on First Take last season Murray said his rating should be higher.
“At least in the 80s,” Murray said. “If we’re talking Madden, my speed and acceleration…anything that has to due with speed, I’m top-tier. I’m in the 1A, 1B of the league. On top of that, you have the throwing ability, the dual-threat ability, not many dudes in the league can do. Someone in the Madden office is trying to hold me back.”
Something tells us he might not be satisfied with his 82 rating to begin this season, either.
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