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MIAMI -- When Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner announced his retirement last week, the sports media world immediately began to speculate about which TV network would acquire his services as an analyst.Warner himself fueled such speculation in announcing his retirement, saying football won't be out of his life completely, and adding of his future plans, "I don't know if that means television, radio, broadcasting, but I love the game."
But I talked to one source in the television industry here in South Florida who raised a concern about just how effective Warner can be on TV.
"Kurt may be too nice to do what we really like our analysts to do," the source said. "If a quarterback makes a terrible decision, an analyst needs to be willing to blast him for it. Will Kurt do that?"
The source noted that both Rodney Harrison and Tedy Bruschi played for the Patriots in 2008 and became broadcasters in 2009, and that both of them ripped Patriots coach Bill Belichick after his decision to go for it on fourth-and-2 against the Colts blew up in the Patriots' faces. Warner's personality is such that he always tries to see the positive in every situation, and he isn't the type to second-guess coaches. That means Warner likely wouldn't offer the kind of analysis that Harrison and Bruschi did.
"Would Warner be willing to question (Cardinals coach Ken) Whisenhunt like that? I don't know that he would," the source said.
None of this is to say that Warner won't get a job in television -- if he wants it, he surely will. But in a time when the gold standard for athletes-turned-broadcasters is Charles Barkley, who is beloved by television viewers because he'll criticize anyone, no matter who might be upset by it, Warner would be a broadcaster with a very different style. The best TV announcers have a little edge, and Warner may be a little too nice.
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