Kurt Warner: Too Much is More Than Enough...

Think about this for a moment: Kurt Warner initially was asking for $14 to $16 million per year to re-sign with the Arizona Cardinals. He then meets with the San Francisco 49ers who offer him more money and more guarantees than Arizona. However, Warner would much rather remain a Cardinal, so he drops his asking price to $11.5 million per year. Plus, he says he will take $1 million less per season if Arizona re-signs receiver Anquan Boldin. So, he and the Cardinals agree to a two-year, $23 million deal. I suppose this is a win-win situation for 'Kurt and his Cards'. But now I clue you in on the part of this entire negotiation that caught my attention. If a player tells a team he will take $2.5 million to $4.5 million less than he asked for before the team even turned down his initial numbers, plus another million less if the team signs a certain receiver, isn't he so much as saying he's over-paid to begin with? The NFL commissioner just took a cut in pay and trimmed his staff by more than 160 employees to weather our current financial crisis, yet the owners continue to throw out these astronomical bucks to the players. What's wrong with this picture? It sounds like to me the owners could have chipped in and kept those 160 employees at work for the league since they have all the money. Heck, the Cardinals could have done that easily with the dollars Warner left on the table. Go figure...