Let It Be Known: Kurt Warner To Bears A Possibility

Just when you thought the Bears had finally found their franchise quarterback in Kyle Orton midway through the season, he gets hurt, hobbles through a few games, and Jerry Angelo expresses he’s not 100 percent satisfied with the quarterback position. David Haugh has thrown Donovan McNabb’s name out there. (He tends to do this from time to time.) It’s believed McNabb will be back with the Eagles after this year. So, we now turn to the old, wise, God-loving and God-fearing quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals, Kurt Warner:

Despite Warner’s stated goal to retire with Arizona, various reports depict the two sides as being no closer than tourists on opposite ends of a famous canyon in the state.

The Cardinals have several expensive players to re-sign this off-season and still have a young quarterback waiting in the wings: Matt Leinart, in whom they still believe and in whom they have invested millions. Wishful thinking or not, the situation bears monitoring for Angelo if even the slightest chance exists of Warner hitting the open market.

From a marketing standpoint, Chicago would be an ideal spot for Warner to position himself for life after football, especially if he’s interested in broadcasting. But from a football standpoint, Warner or any other quarterback might need a psychological exam if he chose the Bears over a Cardinals team with a Pro Bowl tandem of wide receivers.

This is a bad idea for a few reasons. Let me list the ways:

1) Kurt Warner will turn 38 before the end of next season. He has limited years left. Why play him for a year or two and then have to look elsewhere again? Doesn’t make sense.

2) Though having an excellent year with the Cardinals in getting them to a playoff win for the first time since the Civil War, Warner has sick receivers to throw the ball to in Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald. The Bears don’t have a receiving core any where near that of the Cardinals. No way he comes to Chicago and throws for the same kind of numbers he has this year. He just doesn’t have the personnel.

This may very likely be a moot point if Warner re-ups with the Cardinals. But I can’t see a scenario where giving a contract to an almost 38-year-old quarterback is a good idea.

It just isn’t.

Posted at 9:21 am
on January 6th, 2009
Tags: Chicago Bears, Kurt Warner, Kyle Orton, NFL

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emil 1 year ago 1 point
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what the bears need is a .m i hope angelo does a better job of picking his nose than he doea draft picks otherwise he would have suffocated years ago .the bears need to get wide recivers who get loose and catch passes and i think orton will be the bears quarterback for yers to come get rid of angelo and let him go back to being the c.p.a he was meant to be bring in football people to run a football team .it seems to me the bears are run by glorified c.p.a.s from the owner to the president to the g.m. it would be refreshing to see a bii\ll parcells as the g.m. then maybe we could see a team run the way it should be.

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Jason 1 year ago 1 point
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Warner would be an idiot to come here. Lets see, throw to Boldin, Fitzgerald and Breaston all year or throw to, wait, who are the Bears receivers?

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