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Q: How confident are you that Daunte can get back to where he was?
A: I'm very confident. I'm very confident. Daunte is a guy who has had a lot of success in this league. One of the things I was always so impressed with was he had great football character. All the people we know who had him before we got him said that, in terms of his leadership, his work ethic, his competitiveness, all those qualities you want your guys to have, and in particular your quarterback. I know he's working hard to get back physically and to become the player that he's been.


http://www.palmbeachpost.com/blogs/.../Dolphins/entries/2007/02/garrett_on_his.html

So much for Dauntes bad work habits.
 
It's very evident that Daunte works his *** off and wants nothing more than to come back and to prove to everyone he's not done. Why else was he at the facilty from day one last year and pushing himself out there on opening day? I'm very confident that Culpepper will be ready to go and have a fine season.

EDIT: Who came in here, read the title without responding and rated this thread a 1? It speaks volumes that a guy who is no longer here and coached Culpepper last year has this to say. I just don't understand some people here.
 
I hope he is working hard. He is on his last shot.
 
I think the most interesting answer was the first answer he gave to essentially the same question that you have posted here: "I sure hope so." In my mind, that's really kind of a non-answer, a dodge, I don't really think he believes DC will be back.
The whole interview was basically a fluff PR job trying to ruffle as few feathers as possible on his way out. I think the "I sure hope so." answer was a little bit of a slip in that it showed he has such little confidence in DC getting back to where he was that he had to fall back on "I sure hope so."
 
Or it could just mean he hopes so. He's confident Culpepper can and he hopes he does. You're reaching a bit there IMO.
 
jdang307 said:
Or it could just mean he hopes so. He's confident Culpepper can and he hopes he does. You're reaching a bit there IMO.
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actually no the quote says he's very confident.... it's the first thing he said and he said it twice.... where do you get that he hopes so ? and who's reaching ??? Jason Garrett.... ??? Greg Bedard ??
 
Still looking for the so called "I hope so" comment.
 
AirChambers84 said:
actually no the quote says he's very confident.... it's the first thing he said and he said it twice.... where do you get that he hopes so ? and who's reaching ??? Jason Garrett.... ??? Greg Bedard ??
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Did you read the article?

Q: Do you think Daunte is going to get back to being his old self?
A: I sure hope so. Daunte's a guy that obviously has a tremendous amount of talent and a guy that's been very successful in this league. Those are all the things we saw last year before we signed him. One of the things I really appreciate about Daunte is he has great football character. He's a tremendous competitor, he works very hard, the guys respond to him. Everything that we thought beforehand based on conversations we had with Scott Linehan and other people that have been around him really showed up when he was playing for us. The hard thing was he really wasn't himself and a big part of what he does is move around and play. So for him not be 100 percent that way, I think it affected how he played and we obviously wanted to be better around him and all those kinds of things. Daunte's a special guy who has had some success. I know he's working hard to get back to where he's been. He and I had a great relationship and I really enjoyed being around him.
 
Talk about making something out of nothing. What else is going to say...the truth? How would it look if Garrett told the truth about Daunte's effect on the Dolphins last year...

Daunte killed us last year. We believed him when he said he was good to go. We gave up a 2nd round draft choice and a huge contract including a $7 million bonus for the guy. We pinned our hopes on the guy last year. Then you saw him he was an absolute train wreck. He killed our whole season. He got paid $4 million a TD pass last year. :shakeno: The Dolphins better hope he gets his mobility back because without it he proved to be the worst QB in football. If the team cuts him they have to swallow $5.6 million in "dead money." There was never a problem with his work ethic. He worked his butt off. But the problem was with his head. Daunte showed that if he is confined to the pocket and has to use his brains to move a team down the field then that team is in big trouble. You would think a guy that had been in the league as long as he has would have been able to make the necessary adjustments. What a joke...

:lol: I just can't imagine that would go over well in the press.
 
AirChambers84 said:
actually no the quote says he's very confident.... it's the first thing he said and he said it twice.... where do you get that he hopes so ? and who's reaching ??? Jason Garrett.... ??? Greg Bedard ??
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:lol: Love the pic in your signature. Notice that Chambers is not watching the ball into his hands. That says it all...a picture truly is worth 1,000 words.
 
RenoFinFan said:
:lol: Love the pic in your signature. Notice that Chambers is not watching the ball into his hands. That says it all...a picture truly is worth 1,000 words.
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Let's all get together and talk about how much we hate every single player on the Dolphins! <end sarcasm>
 
We pinned our hopes on the guy last year.
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Anyone who pinned their hopes on DC last year simply did not understand the surgery that he had last off-season... and that includes Nick Saban and Mike Mularky. Go back and check the threads at the time of DC's acquisition, you will see a few wise people point out that very few NFL players can come back effectively before a year out from that kind of knee surgery (Culpepper was at nine months, I think?), and it's typically much closer to two years before any type of elite athleticism returns.

I can't blame DC for busting his *** and wanting to be in there. I blame Saban for not knowing that much about the injury; I blame Saban for not making some kind of correction before it was past too late.

I'm looking forward to seeing what DC can do this coming season... I believe it's the first time we'll really see if the knee is healed; the first legitimate chance he'll have had to show his stuff as a Dolphin.

Just for the record, I do expect the team to draft a qb, just not a high-rounder: that's pretty much Meuller's trademark.
 
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