Free-agent quarterback Matt Leinart has heard the "bust" label applied to him while in his uneven, five-year NFL vocation, but it has not stopped him from believing he nonetheless belongs in the league.

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Leinart, who won the Heisman Trophy in 2004 and assisted USC win successive nationwide championships, must have been a disappointment together with the Arizona Cardinals just after they picked him with all the 10th over-all decide on with the 2006 NFL Draft.

"I've heard everything. I've witnessed every little thing," Leinart instructed ESPN Radio's "Mason and Ireland" in Los angeles on Friday. "For me, I have not verified anything at all ... I have not demonstrated should play game in and game out. And I understand that. Now, I feel I am able to play and I am not a single for making excuses. I've by no means created reason within my time with Arizona. It did not function out for whatsoever reasons. ...

"You type of seem for the timeline of what's transpired in my experience and ... obtaining a rather great rookie year then the 2nd 12 months just gaining the damage after which, you know, Kurt Warner, I signify Kurt Warner played himself in to the Hall of Fame the very last 3 a long time. You will find not a whole lot I'm able to do about that. I battled by using a Hall of Famer two teaching camps in a row."

The Cardinals lower Leinart in September, just days prior to the commence from the typical time. He signed using the Houston Texans but couldn't win the No. 2 occupation from Dan Orlovsky behind starter Matt Schaub.

Leinart disappeared past season, not throwing just one pass. His distance from the spotlight assisted him shed a party-boy image that hampered perception of him coming out of USC.

"Perception is perception," Leinart mentioned. "One man or woman can feel a single point of me after which that could escalate and after that many folks leap within the bandwagon, when it may genuinely be correct."
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