WARNER SAYS BOLDIN SUBSIDY “DIDN’T COME UP AT ALL”

In an appearance on Friday’s Dan Patrick Show, Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner addressed the question of whether his new two-year, $23 million contract includes a commitment to direct $2 million of the money to a new contract for receiver Anquan Boldin. Said Warner: “[I]t didn’t come up at all.” Um, really? What about the much-publicized notion that Warner’s proposal of a two-year, $23 million contract included a promise to give up $1 million each year to help the team re-sign Boldin? And don’t tell us that the reports of such a concession were incorrect; it appeared in the article from agent Mark Bartelstein’s unofficial press secretary in the days preceding the negotiation of a final deal, and thus it clearly was true. So how can Warner say that "[i]t didn’t come up” with a straight face? Of course it came up. The question is what happened to it? Warner’s failure to address the issue with Dan Patrick or anyone else allows a reasonable person (that leaves us out) to infer that it really was an effort to sway public opinion at a time when Warner was pushing for his contract. Meanwhile, Warner also told Dan Patrick that Warner would be willing to play with Terrell Owens. Warner might have to play with Owens, once Boldin figures out that Warner used Boldin’s situation to help leverage the Cardinals into giving Warner more money. Finally, to all those people who ask why we think Warner is a phony, we have this to say. What more evidence do you need?