Kurt Warner
Kurt Warner
Kurtis Eugene "Kurt" Warneris a former American football quarterback, a current part-time TV football analyst, and a philanthropist. He played for three National Football Leagueteams: the St. Louis Rams, the New York Giants, and the Arizona Cardinals. He was originally signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 1994 after playing college football at Northern Iowa. Warner went on to be considered the best undrafted NFL player of all time, following a 12-year career regarded as...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth22 June 1971
CityBurlington, IA
They're long and they're strong to the ball. You can put it in traffic, and they're going to come up with it.
That's something we have to change - 'the same old Cardinals. We haven't won much here, but it's time for that to change, and I think we have the guys in this locker-room to do it.
It was just the design of the defense, ... They were doing certain things certain ways, and it's kind of the nature of the beast. One guy in this offense has a lot of success. It can be somebody completely different the next game. Larry did a great job running his routes and making plays.
It wasn't necessarily anything he showed me on the football field as far as throws, or his physical ability or anything like that. It was just his demeanor in the way that he was able to mentally get through (adversity) and not only stand pat, but continue to ascend.
It wasn't that strange at all. This is my team now.
It's tough to get momentum going and you start going backwards. That's another one of those things we have to clean up.
It's not 100 percent pain-free yet, but as far as the strength and the movement and being able to do things, I feel really good.
They were extremely excited to have me be a part of their organization, ... That, more than anything, made it a good fit. Once they got involved, it just felt right.
They push us every day. When you talk about the front seven that we have, I don't think you're going to find a faster front seven in the league. . . . We've seen them create turnovers over the last couple of weeks because of that speed.
A lot more is depending on me to do things with the football, to make decisions to throw the football to make big plays and help us win. That's more of what I'm used to doing. That's more of how I played in St. Louis. It's more the way I like to play.
You don't want to be sitting out the game. You want to be out there battling, no question. But at the same time, when those things happen, what do you do? Do you stew on it and pout about it, or do you do everything you can to get back on the winning track?
This isn't anything major, just disappointing. Obviously this is going to take the rest of the season, so that's the disappointing part of it. I'm just thankful that it is what it is, that it will not require any surgery, and that it will be a three to four week injury.
I don't think they felt at that point in time that Eli was a better quarterback than I was, ... Maybe they did. It was never shown to me. I'm not trying to knock Eli by that. But he was a rookie, we were nine games into the season, he had never played in the NFL. I don't believe they felt he was going to do the things I couldn't do. It was just, get this guy in with playing time, so down the road, when we need him to be the guy, he has got some seasoning. He got better game in and game out.
All across the board again we made too many mistakes, ... just doing the simple things. We've got to do a better job on the simple things.