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Settle QB position

The new coach shouldn't necessarily feel tethered to Daunte Culpepper, even though the Dolphins paid him a $7 million signing bonus last year after acquiring him from Minnesota for a 2006 second-round draft choice.


A source said the Dolphins would actually save $1.3 million against the NFL's $109 million salary cap by releasing Culpepper, who is set to earn $5.6 million in base salary next season with a $6.9 million cap number.

The Dolphins, though, would have to carry $5.6 million in "dead money" toward a player no longer on the roster. The "dead money" comes from the acceleration of prorated signing bonus the Dolphins gave Culpepper into their salary cap.

The Dolphins would have the option of taking that entire $5.6 million hit in 2007 or accepting a split of $1.4 million in 2007 and $4.2 million in 2008, the source said.

Unlike in previous seasons, the Dolphins wouldn't have to wait until after June 1 to release Culpepper to trigger the split thanks to a rule change when the Collective Bargaining Agreement was extended last March. Saban said earlier this month the Dolphins were projected to enter this offseason with between $12 million and $15 million in cap room.
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love the cap hit split
 
COMEBACKRICKY said:
so your saying you would release him? who are you thinking about starting?
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I'd have to think that the only case that would be is if Quinn or Russell inexplicable fell to the 9th overall pick and we were to select whichever inexplicably fell.

If that were to be the case, you have the rookie, Daunte - whom we still don't know will ever be 100% again, Harrington, Lemon, and even Vick if necessary (he was the 3rd QB at times this past season). I guess then it becomes a question of whether you bank on Daunte coming back to perform and keep the rookie benched, or do you cut his exponentially high cap number that will be with us until 2013 and keep Harrington around - or do you convince DC that he'll be a backup to the newbie when he's ready? That's the only circumstance I can see us cutting Daunte.
 
release him if he isn't worth the cap space

Cameron will know what's best as far as QB's go
 
I know it won't happen.

I have to keep telling myself this.

But Dog gonnit, if we could get JaMarcus, OMG I would spit champagne for a month.

You all know I'm the biggest LSU guy on this board. If my Fins got him, I don't know what I'd do.

I can only dream.
 
DolphinDevil28 said:
I know it won't happen.

I have to keep telling myself this.

But Dog gonnit, if we could get JaMarcus, OMG I would spit champagne for a month.

You all know I'm the biggest LSU guy on this board. If my Fins got him, I don't know what I'd do.

I can only dream.
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lol you could always hope for a bad combine right?
 
DolphinDevil28 said:
I know it won't happen.

I have to keep telling myself this.

But Dog gonnit, if we could get JaMarcus, OMG I would spit champagne for a month.

You all know I'm the biggest LSU guy on this board. If my Fins got him, I don't know what I'd do.

I can only dream.
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You're an LSU fan? Since when?

:chuckle:
 
awesome we should release him and then try to re-sign him on a more reasonable salary than the one which he would be recieving should we keep him, which i think everyone has to agree that is really not worth it considering that we do not know what he is capable of.
 
If Dante can come back healthy I wouldn't mind seeing him given another go,and keep either,or , or both Joey and Lemon around for back-ups. Lemon would have another year to learn the system if Dante didn't work out,and so would Joey.
 
DC is our starter next year. I want to see what a healthy DC can do, i already know what joey Harrington can do and I say no thanks, he should either be traded if possible or cut and give the back-up job to Cleo Lemon, i was impressed with how he played and he is alot like DC where the offense would not change if DC got hurt. Draft a qb in the lateer rounds for our third spot, worse case scenario, we have the young Vick to take the 3rd spot, he does have an arm.
 
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