Sorry, but you have zero clue as to how business in the NFL works. Stop living in this dream world where the inner-workings of player transactions have to fall under some umbrella of fairness everytime the Dolphins want to recoup something for a player, expecially one they wasted a first day pick on just over a year ago. NFL teams are wary of Culpepper, much like they were before we traded for him, and just like he did in Minnesota (acting as his own agent and demanding an extra 10 milion dollars, after the knee injury), he's purposefuly trying to make thing difficult. This after we pay him enormous sums of money for only playing 4 games.
Apologists like to throw his 2004 year in everyone's face whenever people start to question his accomplishements in this league, but you don't have to look any further than ESPN for proof of what other teams think:
Chew on this: Three of six general managers and personnel directors with whom ESPN.com spoke about Culpepper since Thursday afternoon acknowledged that the first call they would make if they needed to hastily fill a spot on their quarterback depth chart would be to the retired Drew Bledsoe. The other three allowed that Culpepper would be a factor for them, but emphasized they couldn't guarantee him a starting job. Or even the chance to compete for one.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=2897573
Daunte is being an arrogant and egotistical ****head, and if he wasn't acting as his own agent he could have someone in place to give him a realistic scope of the landscape and find the best deal for him. As it stands, that job apparently is falling on Cameron and Mueller, who are probably going to to have to sit down with Daunte as if he were a histerical 9 year old and try to explain to him that unless there's a team out there that's going to give up compensation for him, the odds of him landing a free agent deal to compete for another team's starting job are pretty much nil. Cameron is almost overly diplomatic when it comes to dealing with the press, and when asked about how hard it is dealing with Culpepper when he has acts as his own agent he replied, "What do you think?"
The only team that could possibly consider a trade where he could have a legitimate opportunity to start would be Atlanta, and even then, as bad as you think an ego clash would be here between Daunte and Green, imagine what it would be like between Daunte and Vick.
The simple fact is the Dolphins have been as "fair" and "classy" as they possibly could in a situation like this. For crying out loud, the Titans LOCKED STEVE MCNAIR OUT OF THEIR TRAINING FACILITY!
Did everyone forget the double talk and backtracking Peterson just did in regards to the Green trade? The Chiefs' head coach and GM were contradicting each other in the press about Geen's future with the team when trying to gain leverage in a trade with us.
Cameron and Mueller have been as non-commital towards Daunte as they possibly could since they took over, and logic dictated that the possibility was always there Daunte could be history and, naturally, even moreso, after the Green talks started up. The press has been speculating, AND RIGHTFULLY SO, about Daunte no longer being here for some time, and now that it's finally coming to fruition Miami is somehow doing something wrong? You trying to tell me when Daunte knew we were trying to get Green, and Cameron made no commitemnt to him either way in regards to the starting job, that he (again, acting as his own agent) couldn't have been trying to broker something this whole time? That is absolute piss poor time management, and if Daunte is just now coming to the conclusion that Cameron was bringing Green in as "his boy" then that level of stupidity could give you an indication as to why teams aren't banging down the door to bring in a QB who had the 4th greatest season in NFL history just over a couple of years ago.
If Daunte had a decent agent, he'd have someone there to tell him that the team most likely to give him what one can only assume he wants (a realistic shot at a starting job) is a team willing to give up a draft pick. Cameron and Mueller are doing what is best for the Dolphins, and if Daunte Rosehaus couldn't pick up on the blatant and obvious warning signs Cam and Randy were throwing out there in reagrds to his status on the team then he only has himself to blame in all of this.
