Assuming Warner is cleared to play Sunady, should Whiz allow him to play?

It appears Warner is going to want to play and assuming he gets cleared my guess is he will play but you are definitely asking the right question, should he play?

From Warner’s standpoint he has to be thinking about life after football. This may be his last year and, if not, my guess is next year is it for him. He has to balance life after football with his desire to win and compete.

I think it’s possible to beat the Titans with Matt, but much less likely. In the NFL "any given Sunday" is still the quote. If I had to put probabilities on it I would say we win 75% of the games against the current Tennessee team with a healthy Warner and 40% with Matt after one week of him getting all weeks reps with the first team. I think (and hope) Matt’s numbers would go up as he got more practice reps and game experience.

I agree the division is pretty well done, but I’m sure Denver thought that last year too. I hate to take the pedal off the gas right now. The way the NFC is looking, we could have the division locked up after week 14 (Dec 14th), but have not real shot at getting a first round playoff bye, which would mean we could rest guys with injuries for a whole month of meaningless games (Detroit, Rams, Packers) if we wanted to. The first home playoff
game would be January 9 or 10.

Finally, from the team standpoint, at some point in time (for the future of the franchise) we need to see where Matt is. Tennessee doesn’t have the strongest db’s and the Cards running game is coming around, so this might be a good game to give Matt a test. Although, Matt could also get a lot of playing time in the potentially meaningless games I talk about above.

Personally, I lean toward sitting Warner, but my guess is that is not going to happen.

Warner should start. Whenever Kurt plays every game in the season that team makes it to the Super Bowl. That stat was revealed to me during the Rams game.

But should he? hmmm…Well if you look at the big picture, which is him not furthur risking injury it makes sense for him to not play. The Cardinals are playing for the #2 seed as well, and with the Vikings game coming up, it is important. I think Warner and Whiz will make the right decision.

But I would like to see the Cardinals give Matt more time in practice with the starting offense in case he has to go in again.

The first concussion segment was on Roethlisberger and my first inclination was that these players need to be careful and that life after football is more important than playing a game. Well, at least more important than taking a week off to fully recover. There are too many stories of players completely being broken down and not remembering where their keys are or what their daughters’ name is.

Then the story discussed Warner, and while his situation is different than Big Ben’s 4 concussions in 4 years (don’t forget the motorcycle crash), it still made me question how I feel about my QB being held out a week. I first thought that Warner is in a different situation and that he would be fine, but I am just not sure. We have a three game lead on the 49ers and we are playing a non-conference foe. Would it really hurt us all that much if he missed one week and got healthy? I don’t think it would really hurt us in the short term and it certainly would help Warner in the long-run.

He will be fine, the Titans are dangerous right now and we will need our A game to get the win.

So, if Warner says he’s healthy we play him. That’s it. What else is there to it? I coach and I tell my young kids all the time, playing scared is playing to get hurt. So it comes down to that, will he play with confidence or will he play scared? Scared, sit em.
I agree with Drullin, we can’t take our foot off the gas pedal. We need to whoop these guys up and down the field if we can. Every game needs to be a statement game.

…is that we have a coaching and training staff…and even a front office (!!)…that I trust completely.

Personally I feel as though whatever the decision in regard to Warner is, it will indeed be the best decision for the team and for the season.

That hasn’t been true in the past.