Kurt Warner and the Cardinals advanced to the play-offs one year after falling to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl 44. They made it past the Green Bay Packers with a high scoring offensive shoot-out that was ironically ended with an amazing defensive play in over-time. Warner was quoted, "It was just one of those games where I felt great, I loved our playing." During the game, Rodgers was intercepted on the first play and it just went off from there. The Cardinals had a 24-10 lead going into half-time. But this game was one for the record books and the Packers really came back charging in the second half, but as I stated before it was a record breaking game as the last one was in 1995 with Philadelphia and Detroit. Kurt Warner played an amazing game improving his play-off record to 9-3, he finished 29 for 33 for 379 yards and no interceptions. The five touchdowns matched his career best, he ended the game with four incompletions and no interceptions. In his post-game interview, Warner said, "Whew, anybody else tired?" The next Sunday they were set to play the high-flying and hard-hitting Saints of New Orleans. http://espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=300110022
The next Sunday the game opened with a 70-yard run from the scrimmage by Tim Hightower and everyone who was watching the game thought if it starts that way, the Cardinals were well on their way to another Super Bowl trip, but soon after the Saints took over play after play. In the end, the Cardinals lost 45-14 and Drew Brees ended up throwing for over 300 yards, he threw to Shockey, Henderson, and Colston each for 1 touchdown. You could definately tell if you watched the game that Kurt Warner was slow getting up and he was playing hard and well as he went 17 of 26 for 206 yards. He said, "It didn't end the way we wanted it to." Another factor of the game was the Cardinals had a depleted secondary defense and the Saints exploited it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/16/saints-crush-cardinals-nf_n_426024.html
When Warner was asked if he was retiring he said he would wait for one week and tell fans of football everywhere his decisison. His decisison was to hang up his cleats, and I was a little suprised but once I thought about the two organzitions he played for and how he brought them to the highest stage in the world. I definately think Kurt Warner should be voted in the Hall of Fame as soon as he can be.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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I feel that Kurt Warner definitely deserves to make it into the Hall of Fame. Being an undrafted player out of college, Warner made his name in the arena leagues for a couple of years. By doing so, a couple NFL teams finally took a chance on him. Those teams definitely didn't make a mistake. Warner put some great teams together and with his experience, he was able to put great seasons together and even won a couple Superbowls. He is not only great person on the field, but off the field is just as great. Kurt Warner deserves to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
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