Matt Leinart is Out For the Season

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In a follow-up to my previous post on Arizona Cardinals QB Matt Leinart’s broken left collarbone, he was forced to call it quits on his 2007 season today. Cards head coach Ken Whisenhunt said:

“We didn’t want to rush him back. To hold a roster spot for that long is difficult, with some of the areas we are banged, with the hope he can get back in time. I am more concerned about him trying to rush back and maybe jeopardize his future. Whenever you have a fracture there will be six weeks or however long it takes to heal, and then, especially because it is his throwing shoulder, you have to do the rehabilitation of it throwing the football. Who knows what it could have been? Could have been 8 weeks, could have been 12 weeks.”

As previously stated, Kurt Warner will take over the starting role, but the team brought in Tim Rattay as Kurt’s backup. With the way things were going, I don’t think this really effects the Cards a whole lot. Kurt was playing better football. He had better stats. The platoon system wasn’t proving to be a big success. The only way this thing gets ugly is if Kurt goes down and the team has to turn to Tim Rattay who is brand new to the team. As far as Matt Leinart is concerned, he will enter his third NFL season in ‘08 with (still) a lot to prove.