It’s being reported that Kurt Warner is expected to announce his retirement on Friday. There was a lot of talk after the Cardinals playoff loss to the Saints that this could be Warners last year. So this news comes as no surprise.
This won’t be a Brett Favre job by Warner. If he does, in fact, decide to retire this Friday you can bet that his decision will be concrete. Warner will turn 39 later on this year and was given the business pretty good by the Saints in the NFC divisional game.
Back in 2004 it seemed like Kurt Warners best days were behind him. He was playing for the Giants and eventually lost the starting job to Eli Manning. The following year he signed with the Cardinals and his first two years there he shared snaps with a few other quarterbacks. But in 2007 Warner turned things around. He had all the weapons in place in Arizona and he started looking like the old Warner during his glory days with the Rams.
It’s been questioned whether or not Warners body of work in the NFL has done enough to earn him a spot in the Hall of Fame. A few years ago that argument held some weight, but not enough. With what Warner has done over the past three years with the Cardinals though should be enough to convince anybody he’s a worthy candidate.
Is Kurt a first ballot guy? That’s tough to say considering people don’t even know if he’s even worthy. But there won’t be a lot of time that goes by until people make the right call. If he does retire the last game he played will be remembered for the amount of punishment he took from the Saints defense. Everyone says how tough Favre is, Kurt Warner isn’t that far behind. He’s played the last three years, probably more, battling injuries. But he’s played through and in the process he’s helped turn the Cardinals something they’ve never been, a really good football team.
Warner has done everything a quarterback could dream of in this league. He’s been to three Super Bowls and won one, he’s won multiple league MVPs, he’s been to 5 Pro Bowls, he’s compiled big-time stats. There are very few guys who wouldn’t want to trade careers with the guy.
The league is pretty skinny on franchise quarterbacks these days. As time goes by, and Warner isn’t playing anymore, people will start to realize how great of a player Kurt Warner really is and his enshrinement into the Hall of Fame won’t come soon enough.
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