Kurt Warner

I am a fan of Kurt Warner. I like him as a person and have tremendous admiration for him as a quarterback. I have been pleased to see him regain some of the prestige he had a few years ago this year with the Giants. But some commentators are just going too far. Dan Pompei of Sporting News says, "Warner isn't surrounded with anywhere near the talent he had in St. Louis, but he's showing some of his old dazzle." Just last night during Monday Night Catastrophe (at least for us Packer fans), John Madden said that Warner is looking more like the old Warner. I've heard that from several commentators.

Let us have a little perspective here. A few years ago, Kurt Warner was the most feared quarterback in the NFL. He was the head of the most devastating offense the NFL had seen in years, perhaps ever. Today he is a respectable quarterback on a good football team. You can't exactly compare the two. Let's look at statistics from 2001 ("old") Warner and 2004 ("new") Warner:

Stat	2001	2004
Yards/game	301.9	225.0
TD/game	2.25	0.6
INT/game	1.375	0.2
Rating	101.4	91.8

In every stat except interceptions, old Warner wipes the floor with new Warner.

Warner is having a good year and is redeeming his career. Hats off to him. But he is nothing like the old Warner. Come on!