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Mercenary football is good. There is an understanding between employer and employee: you play, I'll pay. Players take the field, give all they possess, bloody the knuckles, rake a few backs, draw a little blood, laugh as they spoil and then pick up a check Monday. This is the way it has been since William (Pudge) Heffelfinger was paid $500 dollars to play in a game in 1892.

Being a human being while playing mercenary football is bad. Players that take the field, give all they possess, bloody the knuckles, rake a few backs, draw a little blood, laugh as they spoil and then pick up a check on Monday also have souls. Souls and sensibilities don't always mesh with big boy football.

Loyalty in the NFL is acknowledged but never expected. Owners will pay the next mercenary better than you if you don't perform. Owners and teams want to win and all they care about is your fulfillment of your end of the bargain. You storm the gates, scale the walls and run people through or you won't be getting paid.

Every player that buckles the straps knows the deal between kingdom and Hun. Kevin Kolb is going to be fine.

The Arizona Cardinals courtship of Peyton Manning should have no impact on Kolb. Big Red had a chance to pursue a future Hall of Fame quarterback because he had an interest in playing for them. Matt Schaub would have a problem with this, Matthew Stafford should have a problem with this and doing this to Cam Newton would be almost criminal, but Kevin Kolb has much to prove. The Cardinals had a chance to do something special and they took a swing. No harm, no foul.

If Kevin Kolb is broken over the Cardinals pursuit of Manning he wasn't the right guy for the job to begin with. Moreover, as it stands, Kolb is going to face a QB battle in Flagstaff with John Skelton. Will this break him or impact his confidence negatively?

No.

Kevin Kolb is a mercenary of the highest order. He has been paid handsomely to play QB for the Arizona Cardinals. He has benefitted greatly from this agreement.

Lets hope he's more Attila than Bleda.

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    TBC1977 wrote...
    Right on
    March 16, 2012 10:45 pm
    Awesome stuff, Wolf. Very, very well said.
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    Jim C. wrote...
    Loss of Self Confidence
    March 17, 2012 7:03 pm
    Kolb never had self-confidence so I don't expect him to overcome the effect of Skelton's performance and the romancing of Manning. Like other QB's before him who lost their confidence, he's toast!
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    DanTheTimid wrote...
    Well said wolf, also...
    March 19, 2012 7:29 pm
    People seem to forget that in the one full game Kolb did play after skelton's run of success, Kolb actually played quite well, looking a little rusty out of the gate (understandably) but finishing the game looking like the guy the Cards were praying he was when they gave up what they did for him. He then got his concusion on the very first series of his next game, so we never got to see more, but it seemed to me he showed enough in that one game to prove he, if nothing else, is the type that uses competition as a means to motivate himself, not something to crumble under.
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    DanTheTimid wrote...
    Now...
    March 19, 2012 7:33 pm
    That doesn't mean Kolb will end up being a great QB, he could never fully put it together or he could end up being injury prone and just never staying on the field long enough to show us what he could have been, I just hate when people suggest that he already lost (or never had) confidence after Sketon had that good run last year, cause he already proved other wise, Skelton fan's or Kolb haters just seem to like to conveniently forget that game before the concussion.
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    AZSPORTFAN wrote...
    NICE
    March 19, 2012 7:59 pm
    If Kolb is what I think he is he will come in this year with something to prove. I have always been a Kolb fan and I know he is alot better than most think. You can all say what you want about him but as fans we are know-it-alls and rotten to the core. I personally believe he is going to prove you all wrong and I hope he does. I wasn't wrong about Manning going to the Broncos and I don't think I'm wrong about Kolb.
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    uyiu p. wrote...
    Nice piece of writing.
    March 19, 2012 8:02 pm
    And you have a point; Kevin Kolb will be fine.If you remember the Carolina game, he played well. I may be wrong but I remember a a shoot out between him and Cam Newton. And then there is the Levi effect; he had his bell rung a few times and became skiddish as a whooped dog. He recovered some of his form in the Dallas game but the Levi affect again effected him. He needs to sync with his line and feel they have his back, if not you will continue to see inconsistent play from him. Levi Brown isn't a left tackle; a right guard at best. Do something with the o-line and Kolb will be fine.
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    Sect113rw10 wrote...
    A man who shoots rattlesnakes
    March 20, 2012 2:17 pm
    out of his hand - isn't going to lose confidence or hang his head over this ordeal. Additionally, the son of a coach has known that this is a buisness his whole life and is prepared to accept the events that took place. Kolb may be injury prone (TBD) but this off-season he will do what he's trained his entire life to do; prepare. He'll prepare with the best receiver in the league and most up & coming CB league.
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