Kevin Minter had the thought, and for a while, it was inescapable.
Circumstances in his first two seasons did not help the linebacker’s quest to play. The Cardinals signed Karlos Dansby in 2013, a couple of weeks after he was drafted, and then signed Larry Foote in 2014. He tore his pectoral muscle late in the 2014 preseason as well, which left him banged up all season.
But Minter also was unsure of how quickly he was learning the playbook, unable to fully get to that point where, as the football cliché goes, he was able to play without thinking.