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It's starting to look that way...
Why would the 49ers offer Warner the $29M that the Cardinals won't?
Signing Warner will make them the clear favorites to win the NFC West because it will give them the advantage the Cardinals have had: a super smart QB who plays lights-out in the playoffs and who can make 1,000 yard receivers out of even second year pros. Plus, the Niners already have a strong running game led by Frank Gore.
Signing Warner makes the 49ers a Super Bowl contenders for the next two years. Yup, what the Cardinals would continue to be if...
The Cardinals went 6-0 in the NFC West this past season.
Without Warner, will they win half the NFC West games next season?
The Cardinals went 3-1 in the playoffs this past season.
Without Warner will the Cardinals even make the playoffs next season?
The Niners know what advantage the Cardinals have had with Warner at QB. Their acquiring Warner would be the equivalence of the Portland Trailblazers acquiring Steve Nash and not having to give up anything in return. It would make the Trailblazers more dynamic and it would take the star player off a superior team and make them much easier to beat.
Warner's agent, Mark Bartelstein, is insisting that Warner interest in other teams is "genuine"...he told NFL Network that "If you think Warner is not sincere about signing somewhere else, you don't know Kurt Warner. Kurt Warner doesn't use people."
If Bartelstein is correct, the minute Kurt Warner steps on the plane for SF, he will be gone.
The fallout from this debacle for the Cardinals will be egregious. As Mike Lombardi of NFL Network said, "Losing Warner for the Cardinals would mean that all the good will they built up over the Super Bowl run will be lost."
The nation-wide perception of the Cardinals in the media and with football fans will immediately revert back to the not-so-distant humiliating past when everyone considered the Cardinal front office paragons of ineptitude, parsimony and sheer stupidity.
Then...imagine the continued fallout when Anquan Boldin cries louder than ever to be traded. Every non-partisan football fan and media reporter will have no other choice but to agree with Boldin.
If Warner walks...Boldin's situation will only get uglier and nastier.
Again, the Cardinals will be blamed for ruining the one great season they've had in what seems like forever. many will point back to the one other good year in Arizona, 1998 and the fallout from that season as key players bolted town, and ask, did the Cardinals learn anything?
In this tough economy...how many potential ticket buyers will snub the Cardinals following this debacle? Heck, the Cardinals nearly didn't sell out their first home playoff game.
Michael Smith of ESPN had perhaps the most inightful take on the situation...he said, "where the disconnect with the Cardinals and Warner is, the Cardinals have vowed not to let the emotions of their Super Bowl run affect the way they assess the value of their players in terms of contracts...Warner want to be paid for his role in getting the Cardinals to the Super Bowl...that's where the disconnect is."
And when one considers how odd Warner has been behaving since the Super Bowl, one must wonder if Warner has lost his true sense of being. Following the NFC Championship Warner thanked the Cardinals profusely for being the team that gave him the chance, when other teams thought he was washed up.
Following the Super Bowl Warner praised God as he always does and said he was going to ask God if he should keep playing football.
If it's one thing Warner has always been, and endearingly so, is humble.
Where is Warner's humbleness now? One can sense he is uneasy about talking about the money. Has Warner's humbleness been replaced by greed? What God has Warner been listening to then?
The Cardinals have offered him a contract that would make him the highest paid player on the team. Warner would make more money than teammate Larry Fitzgerald, who arguably is the best football player on the planet right now. Warner would make more money than Anquan Boldin, Adrian Wilson and Sean Morey (three fellow Pro Bowlers) COMBINED.
This is not enough for Warner.
There is a salary cap...the slices of the pie can only be doled out so sparingly in order to feed all the players on a 53 man roster.
Warner has even said he would give a sliver of his slice to make sure Q gets his fair slice.
But there's no talk of that now.
Warner wants his $29M.
Some of the others will have to do without. In fact, two of Warner's millions might have been able to go to keeping Bertrand Berry a Cardinal. Has Warner even thought about that?
Moving on to SF will mean starting over...a new organization, new coaches, new owners, new teammates, new systems...
Warner is going to have to uproot his family once again...which will mean a new house, new doctors, new schools, new dentists...
At 38 and with two years left...this decision would seem insane.
But the one motivator...for him to walk away from all he and his family have here in Arizona, within a community in which they are embraced and rightfully revered for all the humanitarian efforts they make, and within an organization that gave him his Rennaisance and catered its system to his strengths...yes, the one motivation?
Why would the 49ers offer Warner the $29M that the Cardinals won't?
Signing Warner will make them the clear favorites to win the NFC West because it will give them the advantage the Cardinals have had: a super smart QB who plays lights-out in the playoffs and who can make 1,000 yard receivers out of even second year pros. Plus, the Niners already have a strong running game led by Frank Gore.
Signing Warner makes the 49ers a Super Bowl contenders for the next two years. Yup, what the Cardinals would continue to be if...
The Cardinals went 6-0 in the NFC West this past season.
Without Warner, will they win half the NFC West games next season?
The Cardinals went 3-1 in the playoffs this past season.
Without Warner will the Cardinals even make the playoffs next season?
The Niners know what advantage the Cardinals have had with Warner at QB. Their acquiring Warner would be the equivalence of the Portland Trailblazers acquiring Steve Nash and not having to give up anything in return. It would make the Trailblazers more dynamic and it would take the star player off a superior team and make them much easier to beat.
Warner's agent, Mark Bartelstein, is insisting that Warner interest in other teams is "genuine"...he told NFL Network that "If you think Warner is not sincere about signing somewhere else, you don't know Kurt Warner. Kurt Warner doesn't use people."
If Bartelstein is correct, the minute Kurt Warner steps on the plane for SF, he will be gone.
The fallout from this debacle for the Cardinals will be egregious. As Mike Lombardi of NFL Network said, "Losing Warner for the Cardinals would mean that all the good will they built up over the Super Bowl run will be lost."
The nation-wide perception of the Cardinals in the media and with football fans will immediately revert back to the not-so-distant humiliating past when everyone considered the Cardinal front office paragons of ineptitude, parsimony and sheer stupidity.
Then...imagine the continued fallout when Anquan Boldin cries louder than ever to be traded. Every non-partisan football fan and media reporter will have no other choice but to agree with Boldin.
If Warner walks...Boldin's situation will only get uglier and nastier.
Again, the Cardinals will be blamed for ruining the one great season they've had in what seems like forever. many will point back to the one other good year in Arizona, 1998 and the fallout from that season as key players bolted town, and ask, did the Cardinals learn anything?
In this tough economy...how many potential ticket buyers will snub the Cardinals following this debacle? Heck, the Cardinals nearly didn't sell out their first home playoff game.
Michael Smith of ESPN had perhaps the most inightful take on the situation...he said, "where the disconnect with the Cardinals and Warner is, the Cardinals have vowed not to let the emotions of their Super Bowl run affect the way they assess the value of their players in terms of contracts...Warner want to be paid for his role in getting the Cardinals to the Super Bowl...that's where the disconnect is."
And when one considers how odd Warner has been behaving since the Super Bowl, one must wonder if Warner has lost his true sense of being. Following the NFC Championship Warner thanked the Cardinals profusely for being the team that gave him the chance, when other teams thought he was washed up.
Following the Super Bowl Warner praised God as he always does and said he was going to ask God if he should keep playing football.
If it's one thing Warner has always been, and endearingly so, is humble.
Where is Warner's humbleness now? One can sense he is uneasy about talking about the money. Has Warner's humbleness been replaced by greed? What God has Warner been listening to then?
The Cardinals have offered him a contract that would make him the highest paid player on the team. Warner would make more money than teammate Larry Fitzgerald, who arguably is the best football player on the planet right now. Warner would make more money than Anquan Boldin, Adrian Wilson and Sean Morey (three fellow Pro Bowlers) COMBINED.
This is not enough for Warner.
There is a salary cap...the slices of the pie can only be doled out so sparingly in order to feed all the players on a 53 man roster.
Warner has even said he would give a sliver of his slice to make sure Q gets his fair slice.
But there's no talk of that now.
Warner wants his $29M.
Some of the others will have to do without. In fact, two of Warner's millions might have been able to go to keeping Bertrand Berry a Cardinal. Has Warner even thought about that?
Moving on to SF will mean starting over...a new organization, new coaches, new owners, new teammates, new systems...
Warner is going to have to uproot his family once again...which will mean a new house, new doctors, new schools, new dentists...
At 38 and with two years left...this decision would seem insane.
But the one motivator...for him to walk away from all he and his family have here in Arizona, within a community in which they are embraced and rightfully revered for all the humanitarian efforts they make, and within an organization that gave him his Rennaisance and catered its system to his strengths...yes, the one motivation?
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