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Kurt Warner doesn’t believe great athletes rise to the occasion. The Hall of Fame quarterback has played in some of football’s biggest arenas. But when Stephen Dubner asked what made him so good under pressure, Warner offered a different way of thinking about it … Maybe the greats don’t suddenly get better when the stakes are highest. Maybe most people shrink under pressure. This week on Freakonomics Radio, @kurt13warner talks about why it’s so hard to predict which quarterbacks will succeed in the NFL.