Not long ago, Brock Osweiler was watching a television show that inspired him. He connected with it instantly.
The show was the NFL Network's A Football Life and the subject was Kurt Warner. It detailed Warner's rise from grocery store clerk to Arena League player to Super Bowl champion and Hall of Famer.
To Osweiler, Warner's story resonated deep in his football genes. While Osweiler's story has some obvious differences, like Warner once did, the five-year NFL veteran quarterback now finds himself at a defining intersection: discarded, doubted, mocked and sent to football purgatory, where he is still trying to prove he is a starter in this league.