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Parts of a couple of articles in the Miami Herald today:
The Dolphins' first possession Sunday, their 2006 introductory bow to the home fans, included two fumbles and ended with a punt on fourth-and-34. Then things got bad.

By the time Miami at last and at least unshackled from the ignominy of a home shutout and scored with 1:54 left, the huge majority of fans had fled, leaving a sea of empty orange seats in a crowd scene turned gloomily Marlin-esque.

Prior to that, booing had erupted sporadically throughout the game, rising like fissures of poison gas. At one point frustration in quarterback Daunte Culpepper reached its nadir as, briefly, the chant, ''Jo-ey! Jo-ey!'' arose in a desperate, unanswered call for the backup Harrington.

The booing might only have grown louder if Larry Coker were introduced as the halftime act.

There were times during the futility when memories of Dave Wannstedt and Jay Fiedler might have been conjured hysterically as nostalgic, halcyon days.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/football/15544157.htm
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The Dolphins, playing as if allergic to the end zone, suffered through their home opener Sunday with such a brutal, lost and timid effort that the stadium should have been fumigated afterward. Fans booed throughout and fled to beat traffic with 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter of this 16-6 slopfest against a mediocre Buffalo Bills team. A small pocket of angry customers even chanted ''Joey!'' so that backup quarterback Joey Harrington would replace the stumbling, bumbling, humbling savior Daunte Culpepper.

That didn't take long, huh? That chant will get louder, and more hostile, if Culpepper doesn't score more and win more in his next two tries.

''We're supposed to be an explosive offense,'' said fullback Darian Barnes, ``but we're not doing anything.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/football/15544739.htm
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I truly feel sorry for anyone who thinks Joey would have succeeded with the way our team played on Sunday. Its obvious such people werent even watching the game.
 
Phinz420 said:
I truly feel sorry for anyone who thinks Joey would have succeeded with the way our team played on Sunday. Its obvious such people werent even watching the game.
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Save it - its obvious you weren't watching pre-season, Joey is throwing TD's and he is READY. The problem here is not how the entire team played. These guys need a spark.

C'mon now, 1-2-3 ... Jo-EY! Jo-EY! Jo-EY! ... (louder and louder)

 
DoggPhin said:
Save it - its obvious you weren't watching pre-season, Joey is throwing TD's and he is READY. The problem here is not how the entire team played. These guys need a spark.

C'mon now, 1-2-3 Joe-EY! Joe-EY! Joe-EY! Joe-EY! Joe-EY! Joe-EY!
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:sidelol:

So you bring up pre-season joke stats to make an argument that Joey would have succeeded with the absolute horrible play that we showed out there?

Joey would have avoided that 60 yard Pass Interference call on Will Allen, Joey would have magicly dodged Buffalo's blitzing front while throwing it to himself for a 75 yard touchdown!

Please, our team did not show up to play on Sunday and Daunte is included in that bunch. Im not giving him a free pass, but I sure as hell am not going to place all of the blame on Daunte for our ****ty offensive line and our defense who couldnt stop Buffalo.

So what will you geniuses be calling for once Joey is sacked 7 times behind our pathetic line?
 
Phinz420 said:
So you bring up pre-season joke stats to make an argument that Joey would have succeeded with the absolute horrible play that we showed out there?
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You think coming in COLD off the bench, and slinging a TD on command - your very first pass as a Dolphin - is a joke? I think it's MONEY.

Then there was the TD and the roll-outs and his excellent throws against Carolina. Stop drinking the kool-aid and stop making excuses ... Ronnie Brown came to play - Wes Welker came to play - I saw the O-Line giving solid protection at times ... but the Offense as a group, looked down and frustrated after "our starting QB" threw another terrible 4th quarter PICK.

You're forgetting that Joey Harrington tossed 3 TD's against the same Steelers that won the Super Bowl? Hell Joey works out with Big Ben in the off-season ... Don't you THINK we have a better TEAM than the stinkin' Detroit Lions???
 
Culpepper

Daunte Culpepper comes to miami and he works hard to come back...people doubt he would play the preseason...

yet, he comes back and has a big chip on his shoulder, 10 months after a horrible injury...then, in the HOME opener, he gets booed during the game..he tries to help the FANS and come back to bring the dolphins back on top of the football world..yeah, Daunte didnt play very good and the team didnt play with enegry, they kind of overlooked buffalo, but you dont have to kill a guy for trying to make a play

what a shame..they dont even give a guy a shot..fans chanting for joey, what has joey done to be a starter for us?

preseason?

Lions?

?

its funny how some people killing daunte now..but yet if he gets on a roll, the fans will be back rooting for him...give the guy a shot before you trash his confidence
 
DoggPhin said:
You think coming in COLD off the bench, and slinging a TD on command - your very first pass as a Dolphin - is a joke? I think it's MONEY.

Then there was the TD and the roll-outs and his excellent throws against Carolina. Stop drinking the kool-aid and stop making excuses ... Ronnie Brown came to play - Wes Welker came to play - I saw the O-Line giving solid protection at times ... but the Offense as a group, looked down and frustrated after "our starting QB" threw another terrible 4th quarter PICK.

You're forgetting that Joey Harrington tossed 3 TD's against the same Steelers that won the Super Bowl? Hell Joey works out with Big Ben in the off-season ... Don't you THINK we have a better TEAM than the stinkin' Detroit Lions???
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The simple fact that you are bringing up Pre-season plays to back up your Joey love fest argument, shows how oblivious you truly are when it comes to football.

I saw the O-line giving solid protection
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:lol: You aprently were watching a completly different game.

Our "Starting QB" threw another 4th Quarter Pick
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Ok, thank you. You just proved you were watching some game other than the Dolphins-Bills game. Daunte did not throw a 4th Quarter pick. His only INT came just before half-time, which I placed blame on him for the INT.


Aparently you think the O-line played well and that Daunte cost us the game with his "4th Quarter INT". Here is an interesting tidbit for you. At half-time after the INT, we were only down 3-0(I have to bring this up because its obvious that you werent watching at all). Our first drive back from half-time and we didnt even put it in Daunte's hands, we went 3 and out running it with Ronnie Brown on each play.

Our Offensive line was completly offensive today, and joke fans such as yourself want to simply place the blame on Daunte for getting absolutly NO protection, meanwhile citing pre-season stats for Harrington calling for him to replace Culpepper.

Do yourself a favor, just dont watch football. The concept of how the game works is just simply too much for you to grasp.
 
I agree with u but the guy needs to get the shakes outta his head and play like his old self. He looks scared out there. he never stays in the pocket and he is throwing the ball anywhere cause he's scared 2 get hit. When he gets the shakes out he will rip it up.. (Hopefully)
 
RocKStaR said:
I agree with u but the guy needs to get the shakes outta his head and play like his old self. He looks scared out there. he never stays in the pocket and he is throwing the ball anywhere cause he's scared 2 get hit. When he gets the shakes out he will rip it up.. (Hopefully)
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How can Daunte play like his "old self" when he isnt given even a whole 2 seconds to throw the ball?

I would look scared out there too if the O-line was as pathetic as they were Sunday.

Daunte wasnt staying in the pocket because that is what is called a moving pocket. It is the blocker's job to give him space to roll out, that just did not happen at all.
 
I agree with not putting all of the blame on Culpepper and I really hope that he and the rest of the team can put it together next week. I think the fans that were chanting for Joey are pitiful excuses for fans. In this day and age of instant gratification, there is no patience amongst fans for an NFL team to find chemistry. I have faith in this team and Daunte, but he did make some pretty bad mistakes. I have to admit, I was so angry with his play today that I changed my fantasy football team name from CPep's LuvBoat Strippers to Ronnie's HitStickers. I am not going to make any excuses for him and I do have faith. That being said, patience can only last so long. If Daunte continues to play in this way in the coming weeks, I think he will be benched for Joey.

On another note, hindsight is 20/20. Did you see the numbers Brees put up today? Shoulda, coulda, woulda.
 
clownfish said:
On another note, hindsight is 20/20. Did you see the numbers Brees put up today? Shoulda, coulda, woulda.
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Interesting that you feel that way about Brees. You must look at yardage and think that shows how talented a QB is on a given day. Yet you overlooked...

He threw the ball 9 more times than Culppeper did and only completed 3 more passes. He fumbled the ball 3 times(losing 2 of them) and threw a pick in the game. They were playing the packers for christ sake.

How is that any judgement of who would have been better in Miami between him and Culpepper?
 
I completely disagree with benching Culpepper. Saban has made his choice to go with him for better or worse. We have to sit through the bad before we see him do any good. He was out for a long time and it will take a while to get it back. If we bench him we'll screw his head up for a long time to come. As far as Joey, he won't play unless Daunte is injured. Besides we're just starting to get Joey's confidence built up. Why wreck it by putting him in behind a terrible O line? We already know the results of that, just look at his numbers in Detroit. We just have to suck it up and take it like a man right now, just realize it won't be like this forever. Everyone bought into all those stupid writers who were ready to give us the Lombardi Trophy before the season even started. Truth is, it takes time to build a championship team. PATIENCE
 
DoggPhin said:
Save it - its obvious you weren't watching pre-season, Joey is throwing TD's and he is READY. The problem here is not how the entire team played. These guys need a spark.

C'mon now, 1-2-3 ... Jo-EY! Jo-EY! Jo-EY! ... (louder and louder)

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What the hell is everybody's problem with the way Culpepper played yesterday? He completed the majority of his passes and threw a TD!!! WTF would benching a guy who gives us a good chance to win achieve? This is stupid and I can only put it down to the emotion of jus having watched your team lose
 
Daunte's mobility is totally gone. We have Leftwhich back there now. He has one more game or so to shake the rust out. If he doesnt improve his game then he needs to get used to the boos
 
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