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This Cardinals tweet in support of Josh Rosen did not age well

shalise manza young
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Josh Rosen may no longer be a member of the Arizona Cardinals by the end of the day Friday, which he probably will be A-OK with.

Things have seemingly fallen apart quite quickly between Rosen and the Cardinals; after all, it was just 365 days ago that Arizona selected the quarterback with the No. 10 pick in the draft.

Rosen and head coach Steve Wilks were supposed to be the future for the Cardinals, at least as the word “future” goes in the NFL.

Even by NFL standards, “future” wasn’t long for Rosen and Wilks.

Sometime between the Cardinals drafting Kyler Murray No. 1 overall on Thursday night and late Friday morning, Rosen stopped following the team’s social media accounts.

That escalated quickly: Two months after saying Josh Rosen was their guy, the Arizona Cardinals drafted his replacement. (AP)
That escalated quickly: Two months after saying Josh Rosen was their guy, the Arizona Cardinals drafted his replacement. (AP)

But maybe Rosen saw and even saved one particular tweet the team sent in February.

Let’s just say it hasn’t aged well.

Speaking with reporters on February 12, Kingsbury said Rosen is “our guy,” meaning the Cardinals’.

There was already rampant speculation at the time that Kingsbury would want to draft Murray, whom he recruited when he was the offensive coordinator at Texas A&M; last year, as head coach at Texas Tech, Kingsbury said he’d take Murray with the No. 1 pick in the draft in the days leading up to his team’s game against Oklahoma, where Murray had transferred after a year with the Aggies.

There was no way of knowing then that it actually would be possible for Kingsbury to make that happen, but it did.

So, yeah, the tweet certainly didn’t age well.

Given that the Cardinals’ social media team has changed the team’s name to “#KardsGotKyler” on Twitter, it just adds to the humorousness.

Though Rosen likely doesn’t see it that way.

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