Kurt Warner: Man, Myth or Legend
Sound kind of dramatic? It should really. Kurt Warner’s career is full of dramatics, that’s because he thrives on the challenge. What separates players like these from the rest of the pack is hard to decipher, if you knew, you could coach players on it and you’d have a bunch of Kurt Warner’s on your team. But we only have one. There is only one Kurt Warner in the whole NFL and the Arizona Cardinals are blessed to have him. When I watch this guy every Sunday, I relish every snap, he’s not that same young guy from 1999 you know.
Just about everyone knows about his humble days stocking shelves at the Hy-Vee store, so I won’t bore you with that. Ok, I’m going to admit something here, I was even kind of leery about Kurt taking over the reigns full-time. It just kind turned out that way I guess, especially after watching the ball security problems coming back in 2006 and rearing it’s head again some in 2007. It appeared too that the ball just wasn’t coming out of Kurt’s throws with the same velocity either, was it the hand again? But he adjusted and took to wearing gloves. That was a remarkable thing to do, to ask a player who has never worn gloves to all of a sudden wearing gloves on a full-time basis. It helped, a lot. It also showed he was willing to alter and make changes to his game, not that easy to ask of from a veteran player sometimes. I’ve have some career stats for Kurt below, not his full career, but numbers to make a point.