If Trent was back there, would our offense have sustained some drives and kept Warner on the bench more? Sure. But the fact is, Arizona scored on almost every single possession, and without Whitner and the rest of the defense stepping up, it doesn't matter WHO was at QB. Trent wouldn't have led the offense to score every time, and that's what we would have needed him to do.
As a captain, I expect him to endorse Trent, but I also expect him to stand up and admit that he and the defense played bad and lost them that game, and not push the blame somewhere else. I don't expect a defensive captain to say that with a different QB back there, we would have won. Especially when the defense was THAT bad.
I love Whitner, but come on.