Warner's wife sets story straight on radio call

ST. LOUIS -- Brenda Warner called a local radio show Tuesday and said her husband, St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner, had his injured hand X-rayed at her insistence -- and not under orders from coach Mike Martz.

"Martz had nothing to do with it," Brenda Warner told KFNS Radio.

Brenda Warner called during a discussion by St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bryan Burwell and co-host John Marecek about the level of trust between Martz and key players with regard to injuries.

When he revealed Warner's injury on Monday, Martz said that he insisted Warner have the hand X-rayed despite Warner's repeated assurances that he was fine. Warner might have been injured during the Rams' loss at Washington Nov. 24, and he had trouble gripping the ball in Sunday's 10-3 loss to the Eagles.

He fumbled attempting to tuck the ball during a scramble and also lost control of the ball trying to pass as the Rams went without a touchdown for the first time since Dec. 3, 2000 at Carolina.

"I can't believe how uninformed you are," Warner said when Burwell introduced her on the air. "All week long I said, 'Kurt, I'm a nurse, you should go get it X-rayed.' The doctors never once said he should get an X-ray. (They) said, 'No, it's only bruised.'

"How can you take that and say the confidence (between Martz and Warner) is blown? .... This is big enough the way it is, and it is ridiculous the way you are going on about it. ... The media has taken this and turned it into something that it's totally not."

Warner is expected to be out at least two weeks.