WEBVTT - Big Red Rage - Kurt Warner: Renaissance Man 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:04.400 Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles. 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:05.240 Hold ahead. 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:06.600 He got jacked. 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:11.879 This is the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:13.320 and Gilbert Mary's. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:16.280 Gonna score touchdown Slim to the ground by Buddha Baker 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:17.440 Like a torpedo. 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:19.320 He came flying into the backfield. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.919 The rage is brought to you by santan Ford and 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.080 Gilbert right on the Price, right on the corner of 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.560 the Santan two to two Freeway in bal Vista see 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:36.000 Key your Ticket to Great Seats, and by Arizona Cardinals 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:40.640 Podcast visit Azycardinals dot Com, Slash Podcast A. 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.240 Red Seeds Rising Up. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:50.480 Timber Rising Vision, Blurry Rage, Tack It Ober, here's Paul Calvici. 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:53.559 I'm ready. I'm one hundred percent ready. I'm telling you 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:54.120 I'm ready. 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.240 And Ron Woopley. It doesn't get any better than that. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.600 Kurt Warner isn't just a Cardinals Ring of Honor player, 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:10.320 not just a team record setting quarterback. As if that's 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.880 not enough, Kurt Warner stands as his own chapter in 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.400 team history. Again, we're not talking about the record books here, 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.520 because Kurt set plenty of those. We're talking about if 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.640 the book was a Cardinals Big Red Dictionary, and you 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.640 looked up the word culture, there'd be a picture of 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:34.039 Kurt Warner, Paul Calvic here, Ron Wolfley there, and wolf 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.280 You were there every game of Kurt Warner's career. A 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.959 very special Cardinals Folkdales edition of The Big Red Rage, 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:44.800 presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert. What's that old saying? 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.320 Be the change you want to see? Kurt Warner was 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:52.400 basically that as a player upon his arrival in Arizona, 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.640 Old Graybeard. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.360 Poly of course everyone. That's what everyone thought he was 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.800 when he showed up here from the New York Giants, 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.760 and the Giants whatever they did to him, I have 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.920 no idea. Kurt has talked about it from time to time, 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.560 but the Giants tried to put him in a much 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.840 more traditional type offense, I think than what he was 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.240 known for, that being the greatest show on turf, and 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.760 man he came here and I'll never forget the buzz 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.280 of Old gray Beard, Kurt Warner being an Arizona Cardinal 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.160 and then to see where he took it. You want 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:30.280 to talk about a renaissance, Paully, his career was big 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:31.200 time renaissance. 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.480 It just took a while to figure it out as well. 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.680 You know, we'll hear from Denny Green with some all 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.160 time colorful sound bites can Wizna reflecting on the greatness 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:44.400 of Kurt Warner. But eventually when it hit, it took off. 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.240 There's no doubt about it. And it's interesting because not 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.040 long after his retirement he did an interview with Dick 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.320 Vermal on stage, his old Saint Louis Rams coach. Yeah, 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.400 and he actually looked at Dick Vermeal and he said, 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:59.200 you know what, in hindsight, I consider my Cardinal's success 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:04.200 more ratifying and rewarding than my Rams career, even though 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.360 I want to ring was Saint Louis, just based on 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.480 the amount of change that he was responsible for. 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:12.520 Yeah, Paul, you stop and think about it. I mean, 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.600 Kurt Warner came in here and he was the fire. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.320 He was the fire, the spark that hit the wood. 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.680 The fuel that was here metaphorically speaking, when you think 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.919 about it, was a Kwan Bolden, It was Larry Fitzgerald 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:30.760 that was here. It was Carlos Dansby, Darnell Docketed, Kerr Trin, 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:35.200 Barry Paul, these guys that were great pros, that fuel 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.080 that was here, and Kirk came in here, and he 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:42.320 was like the spark that ignited that fire. Just watching 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:46.560 him go about his business too, in the professionalism that 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.640 he brought, the poise that he brought to that position. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.400 It was like when he stepped into the huddle, he 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.640 looked at his teammates and said, I got this. 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.480 And he brought that accountability which is always a core 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.400 part of culture. I can't tell you how many times 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.920 as the sideline reporter, especially if you're a young receiver 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.400 and you messed it up, you would hear from Kurt 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.839 Warner before he even got off the field. How many 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.000 times did he have a shouting match with Todd Haley 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.600 on the sidelinine over what was going on with the 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.240 game plan or what Kurt was it was not seen, 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.200 and they'd scream at each other for ten seconds, and 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.760 then ten seconds later they'd be looking over each other's 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.240 shoulder at some film clips or some pictures like their 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:24.520 BFFs all over again. 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.400 You had a great relationship. I remember you specifically talking 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:34.080 about that BALLI being on the sideline and seeing that unfold. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:39.159 Iron sharpens iron, right, and those two guys sharpened each other. 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:40.440 There's no doubt about that. 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:44.120 Here's one of my favorite anecdotes Super Bowl Sunday, super 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.360 Bowl forty three. You were on this bus. Well, we 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:48.960 got out of the team hotel, we got on the 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.560 bus and you remember us media guys get in the 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.080 back and the tension on that bus. You needed a 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.560 chainsaw to cut through it. Yeah, the nerves, guys were 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.000 so nervous. You wondered if it was gonna be debilitating. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.760 You could hear a guy swallow five rows away and 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.160 the last out of board, no joke, Kurt Warner, and 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.400 he got on that bus without a care in the world. 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.160 And he's fist bumping the bus driver and he's dapping 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.880 guys up and he's having Nobody had said a word, 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.760 and Kurt Warner was a chatterbox and he's just and 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.320 everyone in the bus realized simultaneously, Oh, yeah, we have 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.800 a quarterback who's been here and done this twice. We 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.680 have a Super Bowl MVP quarterback. He's going to lead us. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.479 And how often I think he was the catalyst of 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.360 change without even knowing it. Yeah, because all eyes were 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:36.600 on him at all times. 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.800 Paully, you have no idea what kind of impact that 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.520 truly can have on a football team. I've talked about 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.720 him many times. When a legend like Kurt Warner, when 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.320 he steps into the huddle and he calls the play, 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:52.000 every head snaps up. It's the respect, the inherent respect 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:56.080 that Kurt Warner had that really added to all the 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:57.400 goodness that he brought here. 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.800 And so when we come back, we're gonna hear for ourselves. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:05.640 Kurt Warner renaissance man. On this very special Cardinals Folktales 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.839 edition of The Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:20.320 in Gilbert, Welcome back into our special Cardinals Folktales edition 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.120 of The Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.120 I'm Paul Calvic and his current Warner has always liked 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.600 to say no one had ever gone from Aisle seven 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.640 to the Hall of Fame, meaning there wasn't a precedent, 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.760 there wasn't some roadmap that he could follow for a 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.320 football player to go from stocking the shelves at an 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:46.479 Iowa grocery store to having your bust on display in Candon, Ohio. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:51.320 It's why Kurt's life story literally became a movie script. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.039 American Underdog by the Way, great watch as the Saint 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.200 also goes. Some players take the elevator to the top 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:02.720 and some take the stairs. Kurt's path involved a few 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:06.720 hard right turns, construction detours to the Arena League, and 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.600 overseas through NFL Europe. Kurt knew he could play, but 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:15.480 could he convince the NFL decision makers? And then out 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.840 of nowhere, it happened in Saint Louis with the Rams, 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:24.280 two time NFL MVP, Super Bowl MVP, and then in Arizona. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.480 But for everything fans saw of Kurt Warner out on 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.320 that field and up on that screen, it was Kurt 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.960 behind the scenes who was just as impressive and impactful. 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.600 In Cardinal's folktales, we dive into the archives, So let's 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.040 hit the rewind button on the renaissance man, Kurt Warner. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:47.680 When the Red Sea witnessed see change in their football fortunes. 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.680 Very few quarterbacks are able to go from place to 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.800 place to place and to have winning and to have 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.119 culture change follow them. 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.120 Kurt Warner brings the Cardinals back from the dead. 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.480 I mean he changed the team mentality inside out. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.440 I don't think there was any doubt in six of 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.160 what I could do. The doubt was whether I would 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:18.520 get the opportunity to do it. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.880 In Arizona Cardinals select Matt Lioner quarterback. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:26.160 Ussam, you have a quarterback controversy. Who's your starter next 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:27.320 week against Kansas City? 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.040 What do you know about the quarterback situation going forward? 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:30.200 Now? 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:31.840 Oh, I don't know anything. I'm just going to be 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:33.480 ready to play whenever I can. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:34.880 Matt a start next week. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:35.480 Matt Stunt. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.240 I was never afraid of competition, but I was always 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.239 afraid of unfair competition. 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.160 We have a quarterback change. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.200 We kind of honed in on what he did well, 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.079 what we did well, and we became a lot better. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.920 As the locker room knows, and oftentimes it's the locker 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.439 room that dictates things more than even the organization of 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:55.280 the coaching staff. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:09:00.400 Kurt Warner was the change. Kurt Warner was the culture. 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.720 What Kurt in the locker room knew the rest of 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.959 the world would soon find out. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.360 This is kind of how it's always been for me, 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.400 kind of since there's still a gas in the tank. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.079 Kurt Warner looks like the man that won two MVPs. 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.640 In a Super Bowl MVP when he was in Saint Louis. 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:23.160 Kurt ended up taking over and he saw the magnificence. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.320 He's still got that MVP form. 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.679 It really kind of got your attention. Wow, this guy 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:30.720 still got some juice. 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.520 Could I do enough in a short period of time 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.960 to convince people if we just ride this out, we've 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:38.559 got a chance. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.600 Old gray Beard showing that his beard isn't quite as 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:42.719 gray as most people think. 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:47.240 And think differently is what Kurt Warner forced people to do. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.200 He changed minds both about his own career and the 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.520 state of the franchises he played for. Welcome in to 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:59.520 Cardinals Folk Tales Renaissance Man presented by seventy two sold 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:03.120 where we go in depth into Cardinals history, all time 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.360 anecdotes through the recollections and memories of those who lived 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.880 it or, in my case, those who covered it. My 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.640 name is Paul Calvic, Cardinals sideline reporter. Kurt Warner was 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:17.480 done more than once until he wasn't until he earned 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.400 one more chance and delivered. He did. 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.319 There is nothing greater in team sports than being able 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:25.880 to be a catalyst for change. 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.160 We're nobody else believed in us. We're nobody else believed 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.120 in me. You guys did, and we're going to the 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:32.760 Super Bowl. 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.440 Give him that gold jacket they get when they go 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:39.400 to the Hall of Fame. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.160 I hope to have another chapter here that can weigh 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.640 evenly with what I did in Saint Louis. And that's 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.160 really the objective and why I came here, had to 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.160 do all about the Arizona Cardinals and what they're trying 0:10:59.200 --> 0:10:59.559 to do here. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.000 In March of two thousand and five, the only one 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:07.080 who truly believed Kurt Warner would come anywhere close to 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:11.080 his Saint Louis Rams glory was Kurt himself. He inked 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.240 a one year, four million dollar deal at age thirty three, 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.440 his third team in three years. Kurt was fresh off 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.240 losing his job in New York to rookie Eli Manning. 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.800 In fact, his last game as a starter was against 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.439 the Cardinals, where Kurt was sacked. How many times at 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.079 Sun Devil Stadium. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.480 It comes Uplitz and Warner is sacked against by Berry. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:37.280 Four sacks for bertrand Berry six for the Cardinals today. 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.680 Well help, if you can't beat them, join them. Kurt 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.240 played in ten games in two thousand and five. The 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.040 Cardinals went to and eight in those games. During a 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.560 five and eleven season, Kurt throwing for eleven touchdowns nine 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:53.680 picks before his season was cut short by injury. Former 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.000 Cardinals head coach Dennis green. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:12:00.480 Well, he got MCL ligament early in the game. That's 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.560 the type injury that's four to six weeks, maybe without 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.480 an operation, or sometimes it has to be operated on also, 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.360 so he'll basically be out for the rest of the season. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.840 Before the knee injury, though, there were moments where Kurt 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.400 was surgical, especially when throwing to his two Pro Bowl 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.240 wide receivers Larry Fitzgerald and Ankwan Bolden back to. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:20.880 Throw one or a screen to Bolton over the middle, 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.520 cut of the ten Bolton of the five breaks at tackle, the. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.040 Two head Bolden's in touchsdown. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.200 Going out with a five step drop lobs over the middle. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.480 Fitzgerald leabs got it touchdown. Cardinals. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.160 Both fitz and Ankwan had one hundred plus catches and 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:38.960 over fourteen hundred yards receiving a piece, so Kurt's expectations 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.200 were high for the two thousand and six season until 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:44.240 April rolled around. 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.360 With the tenth choice in the two thousand and six 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:52.319 NFL Draft, the Arizona Cardinals select Matt Lioner quarterback Russam. 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.680 When we drafted Matt. That was the first thing that 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.000 went through my mind, is like, is this it for me? 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:03.080 You know, we'll even get a chance to compete moving forward. 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:07.080 And if I don't compete here, you know, what are 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.920 the chances that, you know, somebody else picks me up 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.160 and I get another opportunity. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.800 Kurt got his chance, his opportunity to stay the starter. 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.200 Week one, two thousand and six was game one in 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.160 the history of State Farm Stadium, and Kurt played so 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.800 well he was named NFC Offensive Player of the Week. 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:29.560 Alas it did not last Week two in Seattle, sacked 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.000 five times plus four Kurt fumbles, even though he didn't 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.000 lose any. Then back home Week three against Saint Louis, 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.080 Kurt was picked three times. 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:42.000 Warner takes back to throw, has time, fires over the middle, 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.640 tipped and it is going to be intercepted at the 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.000 five yard line by a Toadway sends it over the 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.040 middle and it is going to be picked off at 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.599 the forty five yard line. Great diving interception. Warner in 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.439 the pocket, fires over the middle, picked off, intercepted in 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.760 the end zone by the Rams dexter Coakley. He takes 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.600 a knee and the Ram we'll have the football at 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:02.720 their twenty yard line. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.079 Third pick of the day by Kurt Warner. A nightmare 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.600 game that just kept getting worse. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:11.719 Warner under center, and. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:12.839 He fumbled the ball. 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.640 They fumbled the snap, and the Rams have it at 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:20.040 the seventeen. Will Witherspoon comes up with it for Saint Louis. 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:21.280 Do you believe that? 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.960 Boy? This is one of those games where it's gonna 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:25.600 leave a mark. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:31.000 A faithful fumble that looked bad and sounded worse when 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.040 Kurt heard it from the Red Sea. 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:35.720 I got boot out of the stadium. 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.040 Kurt Warner the final fumble there, What did you see 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:38.760 from where you were at? 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:40.960 Just bumbled it quarterback in the center. We're not together, 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:42.960 you know, and it's hard to say why. We had 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.480 a couple of miscues in warm up, which you know, 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.640 sent me off my rocker to a certain extent, and 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:49.960 I yelled at the guys a little bit. 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.480 I remember that play and it was the left guard 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:56.560 pulling that actually knocked the ball out of Kurt Warner's hands. 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:01.440 Kurt Warner never told anybody about and everyone was asking 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.360 in the media, why why did you say anything about that? 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:09.920 And Kurt said, remember it's always the quarterback's fault. 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:14.560 That's Cardinal's longtime radio analyst Ron Wolfoy, and quarterbacks know 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.160 there's truth to that old saying that QB's get too 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.440 much credit and too much blame. And in my postgame 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.920 interview with the head coach, it was about to be 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.720 the latter. Is there anything in particular going on you 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:27.280 think with Kurt? 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:29.280 I don't know. I mean, I hope not. I mean 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:30.840 I think that we've just got out and played. Here's 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.360 some things that took place that were very well and 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.120 some things that didn't. So obviously we're not all on 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:36.840 the same page. 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:41.360 Foreshadowing because by the next game at Atlanta, Denny Green 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:43.680 was ready to turn the page. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.800 Warner takes the snap, seven steps straight, drop pressure coming, 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.680 Warner rolling right. Sack of the ball's lost happened twenty 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.640 five and in Lanta recovers it with twenty one, Michael 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:59.920 Bowley stripped it and Rod Pullman recovers it. Another pump 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.720 by Kurt Warner is ten in the last three games 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:05.440 and Atlanta tanks over. 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:10.080 The ball came out and so did Warner. Q the 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.040 Heisman Trophy winner the. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.400 Matt Lionert era about to begin, Linert ready to take 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:16.720 his first NFL snap. 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.720 Cardinals still lose thirty two to ten, as Liner didn't 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.960 fare much better than Warner bought. 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:27.800 Let there be a QB question. You have a quarterback controversy. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.040 Who's your starter next week against Kansas City. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:34.160 Well, in the postgame locker room, we asked Liner live 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:35.360 on air. 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.960 What do you know about the quarterback situation going forward? 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:38.120 Now? 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:39.760 Oh, I don't know anything. I'm just going to be 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:41.280 ready to play whenever I. 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.520 Came Matt a start next week? Match done? 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.920 You heard that right? The head coach bum rushed our 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.960 interview just outside his office in the Georgia Dome, grabbed 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:55.000 the mic and name Matt the starter on live radio. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.360 You know as much and as disappointing as that kind 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.840 of scenario is. At the same time, you say to yourself, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.320 but I signed up be a part of the Arizona Cardinals, 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:07.960 and my job is not to just be a good 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.600 teammates and to help this team win. If I'm starting, 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.080 my job is to do whatever I can as a 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.360 teammate and an Arizona Cardinal to help this team win, 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:17.280 no matter what my role is. 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:21.720 And Warner, the mentor was all too familiar with that role. 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.000 You know, I'd been there before, you know, Mark Roger 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:28.120 in Saint Louis, Eli Manning in New York, now, Matt 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.000 Leonard in Arizona. I knew how to do that. As 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:34.560 hard as it was, that became my role. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:36.280 I think he's done a good job, as well as 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:37.840 you can do. I mean, I think that there are 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.120 a few veterans Kurt, you know, Bled so, a few 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:42.800 other guys that have been around league a long time 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:46.920 have been major contributors to the National Football League, and we're, 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.080 you know, put in a situation where they became backups. 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.560 And Kurt's got a great attitude. He's a tremendous guy, 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:53.440 and I thought he handled it well. 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:57.040 So even in the face of NonStop change throughout two 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.240 thousand and six, from losing fumbles to lose in his 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.119 starting job, Kurt never lost his signature of faith. 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.840 Always in the back of my mind, I never lost 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.040 hope that I still believe I will be the best 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:14.040 quarterback here. I don't know what that means, but every time, 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.040 you know, throughout my career, the cream will always rise 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:17.480 to the top. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.000 The best player will. 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.760 Show himself at some point and it will be hard 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.439 to deny that person an opportunity to see what they 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.080 can do. And that's how I always, you know, went 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:29.480 through my entire career. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.960 And Kurt's career was about to get yet another reboot. 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.720 All that changed last off season, Well more change was 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:45.320 coming in two thousand and seven in more ways than one, 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.840 and whether it was a new start or a late start, 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.160 because remember Kurt Warner didn't get his first NFL start 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:56.640 until age twenty eight. Kurt handled change in the NFL 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:00.600 like he excelled against a blitzing NFL defense, was at 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.760 his best when it was time to read and react. 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.280 So in two thousand and seven, with a new coach, 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:10.119 a new offense, a new attitude, and overall a new 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:14.600 culture straight ahead, this was nothing new for Kurt. Heck, 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:19.919 in some ways, change itself was Warner's competitive advantage, and 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.679 the more eyes on Kurt, the more he seemed to 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:26.600 separate himself. Because make no mistake, Kurt was a quarterback 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.240 who'd been there, done that at the highest level, and 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:35.560 now it was a Cardinals team that needed exactly that 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:40.359 that role model, a team that had talent but needed direction, cohesion, 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.439 not necessarily a cheat code, but someone to hit the 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:48.080 reset button and what ensued the shock the world Cardinals, 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.280 or perhaps the only person that did not shock was 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:54.080 the guy under center, who was at the center of 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.200 it all. So when we come back, how would Kurt 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:00.359 cope with another first round pick in his career path 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:02.720 and how the end of one season would lead to 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:06.400 the postseason. You're listening to a special Cardinals Folktales edition 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.720 of The Big Red Rage Kurt Warner Renaissance Man, presented 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:18.480 by santan Ford and Gilbert, and we hope you're enjoying 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:22.520 this special Cardinals Folktales edition of The Big Red Rage 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:26.280 presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. I'm Paul calvic Our 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:30.400 title Kurt Warner, Renaissance Man. Went the Hall of Fame 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:34.520 quarterback not only resuscitated his own career, but led a 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:38.800 revival of the Cardinals. Of course, it wasn't easy. Couldn't 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:42.159 be easy. Like Kurt's career itself, there was always a 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:46.520 degree of difficulty, whether it was injury or age, or 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:49.360 a first round quarterback to compete against, or a new 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.520 coach to convince. And make no mistake, Kurt had to 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:56.160 battle all of the above. Going into two thousand and seven. 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.840 But remember back in nineteen ninety nine, years after Kurt 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:03.040 and cut by the Packers after the Rams would then 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:05.840 sign him as a fourth quarterback to compete for the 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:10.240 third quarterback spot. Kurt would start the season opener after 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:14.440 a devastating preseason injury just starter Tran Green, and Kurt 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:16.920 would become the first player in NFL history to throw 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.920 three touchdown passes in each of his first three starts, 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.119 got in a four win team to a thirteen and 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:26.879 three record and the Super Bowl title. Kurt Warner, the 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:32.160 former camp arm was NFL MVP, but that was three 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:36.280