If not DC, Gus or Joey??

[NYFINNER]

If not DC, then Gus or Joey??

1st of all I truly hope Culpepper is ready to go, which I believe he will be & am very excited about. I also believe that Harrington is a better QB then Gus. However, do you think we should have tried to keep Gus knowing Culpepper was iffy? I mean after all he was part of a nice winning streak & did show some guts (even if he does stink). I don't think Gus would've wanted to stay going from a starter to 3rd string. Still he did know the system & was winning. I'll end by saying that I also believe that they need someone like Lemon (young & healthy) on the team who can watch & develop.

Should we have tried to keep Gus?

 

[Mike13]

Yeah Gus is a good back up, but Joey has more upside and more trade value for when we are done with him.

 

[NYFINNER]

Yeah Gus is a good back up, but Joey has more upside and more trade value for when we are done with him.

Good point. I did not think about that. Lets pray that Daunte plays the entire year & keeps Harrington healthy for trade bait as well.

 

[CitizenSnips]

im not sure of the exact timeline of all this. but im pretty sure we let go of frerrotte long before culpepper was ever part of the picture.

 

[NYFINNER]

im not sure of the exact timeline of all this. but im pretty sure we let go of frerrotte long before culpepper was ever part of the picture.

Yes, you're right but we were looking at two re-habilitating QB's in Brees & DC as they let him go, so I just think they should've tried to keep him.

 

[falkaveli]

Yeah Gus is a good back up, but Joey has more upside and more trade value for when we are done with him.

I gotta agree with ya, Gus wasn't too bad, but Harrington is more talented QB IMHO. On the flip side, we all know he's played well under his potential in the Lions' system.

 

[DoggPhin]

Frerotte or Harrington?

im not sure of the exact timeline of all this. but im pretty sure we let go of frerotte long before culpepper was ever part of the picture.

Here is a USA Today LINK to Gus Frerotte's dealing with Saban. It was reported by the Herald, in several stories around March 7-8 that Frerotte would be released if he doesn't take a pay cut, and the Dolphins were thinking about releasing him anyway.

Several weeks later at the owner's conference in Orlando, there was an "interesting buzz" about Joey Harrington falling out with Detroit - MLIVE reported: "While most people in Detroit look at Harrington as the guy who couldn't succeed in four years with the Lions, a lot of people around the league look at him entirely differently. They view Harrington as the guy who was the third overall pick in the draft and a guy they really liked coming out of college ... It's clear that some teams simply view's Harrington's reign with the Lions as "wrong time, wrong place.''

 

[phinfanfrommd]

sorry but im kind of sick of this argument, saw the same thread earlier today, seen this thread comparing every QB from gu to sage, NEXT QUESTION!

 

[lemonpepperfish]

i like gus, i think he tries his hardest for us and he threw a few good balls but he really wasn't very good. PERIOD. How many of those games in our win streak did sage come in and save the day? Sage was the better quarterback of the two, just couldn't take the pressure as a starter (cleveland). If i had to choose between gus and sage as backup i would go with sage. joey is a better qb than sage, so i'm pretty pleased with where we are at right now.

 

[enigmatics]

1st of all I truly hope Culpepper is ready to go, which I believe he will be & am very excited about. I also believe that Harrington is a better QB then Gus. However, do you think we should have tried to keep Gus knowing Culpepper was iffy? I mean after all he was part of a nice winning streak & did show some guts (even if he does stink). I don't think Gus would've wanted to stay going from a starter to 3rd string. Still he did know the system & was winning. I'll end by saying that I also believe that they need someone like Lemon (young & healthy) on the team who can watch & develop.

Should we have tried to keep Gus?

Bro, the Gus thing has been harped on way too many times. He's gone. Get over it.

 

[Hammerhead]

1st of all I truly hope Culpepper is ready to go, which I believe he will be & am very excited about. I also believe that Harrington is a better QB then Gus. However, do you think we should have tried to keep Gus knowing Culpepper was iffy? I mean after all he was part of a nice winning streak & did show some guts (even if he does stink). I don't think Gus would've wanted to stay going from a starter to 3rd string. Still he did know the system & was winning. I'll end by saying that I also believe that they need someone like Lemon (young & healthy) on the team who can watch & develop.

Should we have tried to keep Gus?

You answered your own questin:"(even if he does stink)".

 

[LarryFinFan]

1st of all I truly hope Culpepper is ready to go, which I believe he will be & am very excited about. I also believe that Harrington is a better QB then Gus. However, do you think we should have tried to keep Gus knowing Culpepper was iffy? I mean after all he was part of a nice winning streak & did show some guts (even if he does stink). I don't think Gus would've wanted to stay going from a starter to 3rd string. Still he did know the system & was winning. I'll end by saying that I also believe that they need someone like Lemon (young & healthy) on the team who can watch & develop.

Should we have tried to keep Gus?

Gus was a stop-gap measure until we got the right guy in. DC, even if he can't start until a few games into the season is still the man. Joey is more capable than you want to give him credit for. Joey's QB rating last year was the same as Gus' was last year. In fact, Joey and DC are better QBs than we've had in here since Danny retired. And, the combination of Lemon, DC, and Joey is better than any combination we've had since Danny, Strock and Crash...(and Crash wasn't even a really a QB).

We had seen the absolute best that Gus could have given us and keeping him would have been more of a negative than a positive. Aside from that, Gus quit on the team, Saban didn't quit on him. He took less money to be the backup in Stl. than we were offering here ? What does that tell you about Gus ?? Tells me he's better off gone...

The answer is no, we don't need to have Gus.

 

[slyfox13]

1st of all I truly hope Culpepper is ready to go, which I believe he will be & am very excited about. I also believe that Harrington is a better QB then Gus. However, do you think we should have tried to keep Gus knowing Culpepper was iffy? I mean after all he was part of a nice winning streak & did show some guts (even if he does stink). I don't think Gus would've wanted to stay going from a starter to 3rd string. Still he did know the system & was winning. I'll end by saying that I also believe that they need someone like Lemon (young & healthy) on the team who can watch & develop.

Should we have tried to keep Gus?

No cause gus wanted to move on and linehan would have taken him with him anyway.

 

[slyfox13]

Yeah Gus is a good back up, but Joey has more upside and more trade value for when we are done with him.

what the he@# are you talikin about.......Trade value?????? joey is with us for 2yrs then hell be a starter somewhere in the league.:confused:

 

[PhinsRock]

Gus is gone, gone, gone, get over it. Woulda, coulda, shoulda, so sick of threads touting why or what we should have done about a player who is GONE. We have DC and JH, BOTH of which are far superior to anything Gus was/could be capable of. Good luck in St. Louis Gus, you wouldn't take a pay cut, didn't want to be a backup, but now in St. Louis you got both.

Can't we just move AHEAD guys? We now have agueably one of the best coaches in the NFL, and all we seem capable of on this board is second guessing him. So tired of it. Past is past, get a life. (Sorry guys but 90% of threads on here lately seem to be about the past or players who are gone, seems so dumb to waste time on crud like that.)