He wasn't really snubbed. It's just there were 15 guys with really compelling arguments and only 5 spots.
I'm thinking that when push came to shove, that donut hole in the middle of his career hurt him.
Would truly love to discuss the SO CALLED Donut whole that other haters have created as the facts don't match up.
Playing with Martz as head coach and not an OC got many a QB shell shocked and absolutely killed with always 5 players in a pass route and even lucky if Martz let you even get a back to chip block on his way into a pass route. Martz knew nothing about drafting or restocking the shelves as the names mentioned would make you vomit if I put the very long list of GARBAGE that Martz brought to the GSOT and very quickly killed the golden goose.
Warner on just being able to take a hit that would knock others out would always seem to shake it off and pull off another third and long for a 1st down. You always had hope with Kurt on third and whatever. Simply put Martz NEVER believed in giving his QB's protection if his front 5 could'nt get the job done. We had years of heartache trying to fill the offensive right tackle spot and we also lost Gruttadaria our SB winning center to the Cardinals in Free Agency as we also let London Fletcher walk for chump change. It still hurts to mention some of this stuff but back to the point. Our pass protection SUCKED and it took a final toll as it did with Bulger and enter every other QB Martz coached on his way out of the league as an offensive coordinator. The offensive right tackle spot was the major weak spot in the demise of the GSOT along with no replacements for defections.
Warners injuries piled up from concussions in and around the 2000 playoff game with the Saints we should have still pulled out without a fumbled punt late in the game. We all know about the intentional grounding NO CALL on brady's FG winning drive and players not out of bounds having the clock stopped along with the ALL GAME holding of Faulk and our recievers and the late hitting on Bruce and Holt. It just felt dirty to rewatch that game over again knowing the refs were totally allowing everything and just HAD to call some wrestling type holding plays on Marshall that led us to a game tying touchdown to Proehl. We scored too fast once again. Brady with less than 200 yards passing is GIVEN the MVP award of that CORRUPT nightmare not to be believed.
So Warner goes to a Giants team still with his hurt thumb and still fumbling . Yet he took that bunch with only Tiki Barber and a rookie WR to a 5-2 record as Warner beat out the 1st draft pick in Eli Manning the teams Savior that the fans were drooling to have take over the team. The rookie wr goes down as they always do and Strahan and the MLB go down the next week for the season and the team starts to collapse yet warner uses Tiki in ways he had never played and he has his best career season ever as they lose the next two weeks and Kurt is pulled as Eli Manning comes in as team savior and loses 6 games in a row and Coughlin even got so sick watching it he pulls Manning in one game and on his first drive Warner takes a team that could'nt make a 1st down , the length of the field for a beautifull TD drive. Just showing what the team gave up on just to see the QBOTF too soon.
Next season Warner has the same thing happen again as the next QBOTF in Matt Leinhart is drafted by the Cardinals. Warner beats him out and Kurt has to endure the season of the HC meltdown in the famous "We let them off the hook " game with the Bears on Monday night and that fat(chilidog eating) HC was finally fired and Warner had to prove himself again with his new head coach straight from Pittsburgh as he felt he got passed over for coach Tomlins hire. Kurt worked his magic and took that bunch and made nobodies into a real team on pure leadership.All the way to the SB against the leagues #1 passing defense Warner posted another of his top 3 passing yardage games that STILL have the record in NFL history even though the great passing legends have played in the SB since then and Warners records remain.Warner was like Manning as he called his own plays and made his OC look great once again. Martz would call it free lancing 10 years earlier. But it worked did'nt it? Kurt learned it while playing in the Arena league where you had to score on every possesion.
When Kurt went out on top in the playoffs beating the great Aaron Rodgers in a playoff game with Five touchdowns and only 4 pass incompletions in the NFL's 2ND rated passing shootout playoff game ever. The next week in Kurts most unlucky place ever in New Orleans where he lost SB XXXVI and a playoff game in 2000 and now the Bountygate saints with Greg Williams where he was creamed blindside as the player was thrown out Kurt decided to retire. He had been to the SuperBowl just the season before. Those same wide recievers went back to nobodies once Warner left the game(not Larry and Bouldin) but the others and his leadership on the field until even that HC was fired and is now the Titans head coach with no Warners around to make him look good his team drafts second this year looking for that dream QBOTF once again.
Warner was recipiant of The Man Of The Year trophy on the field in uniform before his SB game. No distraction there. So Warner faced and overcame injuries played a season with his shoulder and left arm in a brace the season before his Cards SB. Most QB's would have sat it out for the 3 million he was paid by bowtie Bidwill. It was'nt the money it was the game. Warner led from college title onward. The league took Warren Moons Canadian stats into consideration but not Warners Arena and Europe Championship games. He led the way wherever he went. He made others around him better always hurt or not he was THE LEADER. He's gonna coach Kaepernick this offseason at request. HELL YES HE WAS SNUBBED. With Favre next year he will not get in again. Shameless.
