ESPN's Chris Mortensen is reporting that the Cardinals will name Kurt Warner as their opening day starting QB.
I know Leinart looked horrible last night, but he is under the kind of pressure that all whites who are high draft picks inevitably are. Vince Young, drafted the same year as Leinart, has been a bust, no matter how hard the jock- sniffers in the media try to sugarcoat it. His stats this preseason have been worse than Leinart's; I believe he had a 41.1 QB rating last game, and the previous game it was lower than that. Anyone demanding that Kerry Collins be given a chance to compete for the starting job? Instead, we hear the same laments we heard about Vick- "VY" needs weapons, his line doesn't give him a chance, etc. Jason Campbell had one of the worst games I've ever seen a QB have last night. Idiotic announcer Joe Theismann refused to issue a word of criticism, and simply blamed it all on the offensive line and receivers. This is the same clown who was all over David Carr for "taking" sacks, and once said, "Carr needs to realize that the reality is, he only has two seconds to get rid of the ball." He also said, after issuing that unbelievable gem, that Carr was guilty of locking in on his primary receiver! Yeah, Joe, I'm sure those magical black QBs are capable of finding their secondary options in TWO seconds!
The evidence is overwhelming; in recent years, we've seen high draft picks like Heath Shuler, Ryan Leaf, Cade McNown, Tim Couch, David Carr, Joey Harrington, Alex Smith and now Matt Leinart all be kept on an incredibly short string, as the drunk white fans screamed for their backups to be inserted into the game every time they threw an incomplete pass. On the other hand, blacks like Steve McNair, Donovan McNabb, Daunte Culpepper, Mike/Michael Vick, Aaron Brooks and Byron Leftwich were given every chance to develop, with those same drunk white fans keeping a respectful silence as their beloved black QBs went through their "growing pains" (a term not used at all for white QBs). Even when their stats are awful (as they often are), we are repeatedly reminded by every white jock-sniffer on t.v. that the black QB has "poise" and exhibits "leadership."
Even truly horrendous QBs like Quincy Carter, Sean King and now Tavaris Jackson are given more of an opportunity to succeed than white QBs taken first overall in the draft. We already hear constant criticism of Brady Quinn, who hasn't started an NFL game yet! Remember that the jock-sniffers on ESPN were ready to declare Eli Manning a "bust" last season before the Giants' late run to the Super Bowl.
If we think about how hard it is for whites to get fair treatment at the one skill position they are still allowed to play, how can we be surprised at how white RBs and WRs are treated?
The only reason that almost every team doesn't have a black starting QB is because they simply cannot hide that kind of lack of talent and skill.
