2006 Daunte = 2005 Daunte?

[Jnaledu3]

One thing that noboby seems to be talking about is Dauntes 2005 season BEFORE the injury. If you can remember, Daunte wasnt having a very good season before he was injured. And as I recall, the team turned itself around with Brad Johnson as QB.

I didnt really follow the Vikings last year, so I dont really have a good idea about what was going on. Are there any Vikings fans/followers out there that can compare/contrast Dauntes last 6-7 games with the Vikings with his two here?

Im not a Daunte basher by any means, and this is coming from a guy who made a living off bashing Fiedler/Feeley on this board (and took a HELL of a lot of beef for it:cooldude:).

 

[adamprez2003]

If we're up at halftime Daunte should finish out the game. If we're behind or tied and our offense hasnt done anything against the Titans, Saban should put in Harrington to try to salvage our season. We cant go 0-3 and hope to make the playoffs

 

[Cobra84]

the team turned itself around with Brad Johnson as QB.

That was one of the reasons I didn't want Culpepper. The Vikings looked like a whole new team with Johnson in there. The team played better and the only change was Culpepper.

 

[unifiedtheory]

One thing that noboby seems to be talking about is Dauntes 2005 season BEFORE the injury. If you can remember, Daunte wasnt having a very good season before he was injured. And as I recall, the team turned itself around with Brad Johnson as QB.

I didnt really follow the Vikings last year, so I dont really have a good idea about what was going on. Are there any Vikings fans/followers out there that can compare/contrast Dauntes last 6-7 games with the Vikings with his two here?

Im not a Daunte basher by any means, and this is coming from a guy who made a living off bashing Fiedler/Feeley on this board (and took a HELL of a lot of beef for it:cooldude:).

Helps when Johnson had a cream puff schedule.

 

[akfinfan]

Minnesota didn't win those game because of Brad Johnson. Look at Johnson's stats in 05. They won because Minnesota's defense started to pull their heads out of the butts. If any of you know-it-alls remember, Culpepper intially had a slight tear in his knee Week 1 last year vs Tampa Bay. Also for those that think Culpepper's success in years past was soley because of Randy Moss, think again, go back to 2004 and look what Culpepper did when Randy wasn't playing, again if you remember Moss missed like 3-4 games and was only a decoy in others while recovering from a hamstring injury. He made Nate Burleson look like a god when if you check out what he did in Minny last year and Seattle so far, he sucks, and is extremely overrated. Moss or not nobody throws for 4,700 yards, 39 TDs and only 11 picks because of one other player on your team. While Culpepper isn't playing up to his potential so far this season, you have to admit that our OLINE is sucking and our defense isn't stopping the run and giving up to many costly penalties on 3rd down. Culpepper has to adjust his game from they way he used to play. He's played 2 games and some of you clowns want his head, when given the circumstance he has to be supported by his coaches, teammates and YOU and I the FANS!! Miami's reason for losing the first 2 games I would say is only about 20% fault of Culpepper, 10% Saban's coaching, 40% OLINE and 30% Defense.

 

[R_t_Kraken]

One thing that noboby seems to be talking about is Dauntes 2005 season BEFORE the injury. If you can remember, Daunte wasnt having a very good season before he was injured. And as I recall, the team turned itself around with Brad Johnson as QB.

I didnt really follow the Vikings last year, so I dont really have a good idea about what was going on. Are there any Vikings fans/followers out there that can compare/contrast Dauntes last 6-7 games with the Vikings with his two here?

Im not a Daunte basher by any means, and this is coming from a guy who made a living off bashing Fiedler/Feeley on this board (and took a HELL of a lot of beef for it:cooldude:).

i'd rather have Fielder than the 2005-06 verison of Daunte Culpepper. Yeah, I said it. At least he was a leader.

 

[SarahAnn]

One thing that noboby seems to be talking about is Dauntes 2005 season BEFORE the injury.

What are you talking about, enter almost any CPep thread and you see SOMEONE bringing up the 05-06 season.

 

[slyfox13]

Daunte is fine he threw for 250 and 1 int i can live with that. some better play calling would be nice though? How about 15 carries for ronnie aint enough???????

 

[NorFlaFin]

A couple of things.

Vikings started to get healthy on both sides of the ball(huge).
Johnson played smart and threw the ball away.

 

[accents]

Minnesota fan here, sorry about Culpepper. I am also checking into to see if Culpepper has miraculous transformation from the way he played in Minnesota (NOT).

I think it was the 2005 first game that Brad Johnson played after Culpepper got hurt. The Vikings made 27 points, and our lousy offense only made 3 of those points - defense and special teams made the rest of the points. This game points out that our offense was lousy. Culpepper would have lost that game by fumbling or throwing interceptions. Johnson won the game just by not doing anything stupid.

Once Culpepper thinks he is losing the game, he will lose the game by throwing interceptions or fumbling and drag the rest of the team down with him.

Look at the stats of the games which Culpepper played in 2005. Look at the fumbling and interceptions. Lot of people made fun of his small hands because of the interceptions and fumbles. (Don't forget teh fumbles.)
http://www.nfl.com/teams/stats/MIN/2005/regular

Once Culpepper loses his nerve, he will throw the whole game away. Here is just one game where he had 5 interceptions. No defense can defend against 5 interceptions.

http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/live/NFL_20050918_MIN@CIN

I remember a quote by Mike Tice saying something that Culpepper can't win a game unless he was a head by half time. I read some stats that the Vikings have only 4 games in a come from behind victory since 2001 to 2005. In the last two weeks, the Vikings have won 2 come from behind victories under Childress and Brad Johnson. So was Mike Tice or Culpepper responsible for that mindset?

Childress said something that he wanted a quarterback with an even temperament through out the game- not a quarterback that gets flustered and runs hot and cold (I assuming the was referring to Culpepper.) If the defense rushes, hurries or sack Culpepper, he will probably lose the game.

Culpepper takes forever to throw the ball. Culpepper won a lot of games with his legs; if his legs are gone, all he has left his his arm. He doesn't have much of brain.

That is Culpepper. He fooled me for many years.

Accents

 

[nyjunc]

Helps when Johnson had a cream puff schedule.

For years daunte had a creampuff sched to work w/ and yet he only had 2 seasons w/ as many as 9 wins.

Minny started to win after Daunte went down b/c Brad protected the ball and limited the bad INts that Daunte was known for. It's as simple as that.

 

[zonk4ever]

we need to stop bashing CPEP because joey's getting upset with the fans for booing and he might refuse to play. I'm not kididng! Joey's not over his lion's daze.