ESPN The Magazine’s Rick Reilly thinks Warner’s leaning heavily towards retirement, and agrees it’s a good time to walk away:
“What’s left to prove? He’s been MVP twice. He’s played in three Super Bowls. Won one. Been Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year. Set several all-time postseason NFL passing records. His story — the Hy-Vee grocery stocker who lived in his in-law’s basement and wound up torching the NFL for 12 seasons — should be a major motion-picture release. “I pray that God takes away the desire in me to play this game. I’ve loved it for so long. I need Him to take that away from me.” He’s a first-ballot Hall of Famer and if he’s not, they ought to melt it down and start over. Chew on this: His numbers are better then 16 other QBs already in the Hall, including Roger Staubach, Terry Bradshaw, and Joe Namath. His 7.9 career yards-per-pass-attempt is better than Peyton Manning’s or Tom Brady’s. The man is a defense-reading mainframe in cleats.”
