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i'm not sure if this was posted last season. it's an interesting listen, nothing really new but still it's nice to get his perspective on coaching kurt.
this guy had so much faith in kurt that he played him with a broken throwing hand over a healthy bulger. then brenda had to ruin it all by calling martz out on radio, the big mouth. but who knew martz would take it so personally against kurt and put him to the sword against the giants in the first game the next season.
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Not gonna beat that dead horse, but that's not exactly how it went down. (so maybe I'll kick it a little)
Martz was fully on the Bulger train and kept putting Warner in position to fail.
Then he crossed one of MANY big red lines which makes him a POS in my book.
He took an obviously concussed Warner and sent him back out in the 2nd half of that Giant game after constantly running empty sets and 7 step drops against the best DL in the league at that time because the only way to justify Bulger to management was if Warner got injured... so he set out to injure him.
Warner was OBVIOUSLY concussed and STILL nearly led the Rams to a comeback victory throwing 3 TDs in the 2nd half.
Then he never played another down for the Rams again, even as Warner recovered and Bulger struggled.
Also, Brenda was right. She did what any strong spouse should do... speak the truth and speak up for her spouse. Had Martz had is way, Warner would never have played so much as a touch football game ever again. Hell, that's what he explicitly tried when he refused to release Warner so that he could go and start for Denver even as Mike Shanahan explicitly wanted to do that. He only released Warner AFTER all of the starting jobs were taken...after the draft...
Martz was a brilliant offensive mind, but a more offensive human being... I don't give a single shit that his soft spoken demeanor belied his extreme petulance.
He's a POS of the first order and I give him no quarter... not because I'm a Warner fan (I am), but because he knowingly put a concussed player back in a game to further injure him AND he then went out of his way to ruin the rest of his career or more accurately went to great lengths including telling other GMs around the league that Warner could no longer grip a football.
These are not the actions of a good person.
McVay is every bit as laser focused on perfection as Martz ever was, but he would NEVER knowingly put a concussed player in a game. NEVER. He would never go out of his way to ruin a player's career.
That's enough kicks for now.
TL;dr Martz is a POS and his current revising of history is lost on those of us who were paying attention. Warner's in the HoF and Martz can't sniff a college job and no amount of rose-colored glasses and lies about how he felt about Warner gonna change that.
