I covered Anquan Boldin during his seven seasons with the Cardinals and among the many conversations we shared, both public and private, my favorite memories were often about his days as a quarterback long before he joined the NFL in 2003.
Boldin, who stunned a lot of us on Sunday with his retirement, loved to talk about how great he could have been if someone had drafted him as a quarterback instead of a wide receiver. That was never going to happen, of course, but you couldn’t tell that to 'Q.'
In 2009, for instance, I asked him what he thought about then-Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner, in the second game of the regular season, registering a perfect 158.