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And Pete Carroll offered this as to why he thinks Leinart is struggling..
Leinart is still waiting for one from head coach Ken Whisenhunt, who is keeping all of us guessing, not just Leinart and Warner.
While I was listening to The Dan Patrick Show, an interesting subject came to light when Patrick was interviewing Leinart's college coach, Southern California's Pete Carroll.
Carroll was responding to the idea of naming Warner the starter over Leinart. Carroll expressed his disappointment for Leinart, and then offered a gem some of us might have overlooked.
He suggested that Whisenhunt's "tough love" approach is probably not the best way to keep Leinart motivated and on top of his game.
"Matt was in a situation where they didn't know what they felt about him and where he had to show up and prove it and make a big statement that he was the guy, and that might have not let him be at his best," Carroll said. " . . . Because when Matt wasn't our starting quarterback and he was battling Matt Cassel, he wasn't very good.
"The day we told him we're going to give you the chance to be the starter, he looked at us and there was a twinkle in his eye like, 'You're never going to regret it,' and we never did."
It goes back to what Leinart told a reporter last year when he said he wanted the Cardinals to sink or swim with him as The Man.
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