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Cardinals fans weren’t happy when former Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner decided to start working with 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick this offseason. Cardinals fans may be even less happy now.

Via Jim Corbett of USA Today, Warner said recently that Kaepernick has been displaying better touch on his throws. Thanks to playing touch football with some receivers who aren’t used to catching fastballs from an NFL quarterback.

“We had some guys come out from the office playing in my corporate charity event, and there were a couple of times where I went, ‘Whoa! Was that a little bit of touch I just saw?” Warner said, via Corbett. “Colin laughed and told me, ‘We’re not out here working for nothing.’

“The situation forced him to throw with a little more touch. He couldn’t throw it as hard as maybe he wanted to with those corporate guys.”

Over the past 10 weeks, Warner has helped Kaepernick with his stance while throwing and the mechanics of making reads from one receiver to the next. But Warner realizes that may not make a difference once Kaepernick finds himself in live game reps with his muscle memory taking over.

“Is 10 weeks enough time for you to change what you’ve been doing your entire career? And what does that look like when bullets are flying and people are attacking you?” Warner said, via Corbett. “Have we gone far enough where that becomes the norm for Colin?

“That’s the big question none of us can answer. . . . You talk about a guy who has been playing the position one way for twenty-something years, and we’re [trying] to change him in three months?”

It’s unlikely that much will change, unless Kaepernick’s protection allows him to not worry about being hit and instead to consciously focus on the things he’ll have to do for a lot more than 10 weeks in order for it to become part of his subconscious.