How does a player follow up a season in which he was named the league's Most Valuable Player and guided his team to a Super Bowl title? If you are Kurt Warner, you continue to improve. Although his 2000 schedule was interrupted by a broken finger that sidelined him more than a month and kept him from matching his 1999 numbers, many opponents said Warner was even more dangerous. "If anything, he is better," said 49ers defensive coordinator Jim Mora Jr. With Warner as their starting quarterback, the Rams were 8-3 last year — but they were 2-3 without him.