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Forget what we've seen of this season. If someone asked you if you would sign a QB with 1 or 2 good seasons under his belt for 60 million dollars (equivalent or more than Tom Brady's salary just so you get an idea of how much money the guy is making) and coming off major rotator cuff surgery, you would have to be absolutely insane beyond comprehension. He simply asked for too much money at a time when we had none. That's why we didnt get Peterson, Arrington, or Hutchinson. We got stuck with huge contracts from the Wanny era. We had to move around money on Culpepper's contract like crazy just to barely fit under the cap. Hindsight is 20/20 and Brees looks great while Culpepper is iffy.

Remember though he wasn't supposed to play till late October, so who knows how that knee is affecting him. Maybe it's a bad move by Saban to start him this early, I don't know. What I'm saying is that I see a lot of people criticizing the Dolphins for picking Daunte. I think they made the only decision they could have with the info they had. It's like blaming us for passing on Tom Brady, things like that happen.
 
nope.

brees is light years ahead of culpepper right now. and his OL has 5 new starters.
 
And you feel giving Daunte 50 Mil and giving up a second round pick is better because?
 
Did you just read the title and skip my post? Geez. OBVIOUSLY Brees is outperforming Daunte, that's not in question. I'm saying that nobody is psychic and could have known Brees would recover so quickly from that injury, and it would have been a bad move to pay him as much as Tom Brady when you had no idea if his arm would fall off the next pass he threw.
 
death7star said:
nope.

brees is light years ahead of culpepper right now. and his OL has 5 new starters.
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Maybe if we had added Faine we would be looking better.
 
I'd've made that choice any day. Shoulder injuries tend to mess up QBs...Breese is playing great right now, I admit, and, in retrospect, it may be the wrong decision, but, a separated shoulder is NOT a recepie for a starting QB. Scott Mitchell was playing gangbusters for us until he separated his shoulder.....It's an ongoing theme. I'd still take DC over Breese anyday......

Remember, it was not that long ago everyone was calling Breese a bust :wink:
 
Picking up a running QB coming off a knee is a dumber gamble than picking up a QB coming off a shoulder. That was my position when the choice was made, and that's my position now. I embraced Culpepper like a good fan for my team once the choice was made, but it definitely wasn't my pick. I'd prefer to have neither guy if the only justification for Culpepper is that a knee is better than a shoulder. I think that line of thinking also ignores just how important the proper mechanics are for any QB and how mechanics are a function of the whole body's movement from head to toe.

The book isn't written on Culpepper yet. I hope it gets better. With that said, I couldn't blame anybody for thinking the Dolphins made the idiot pick right about now. When a guy like Chuck Casserly agrees with the choice made (as he mentioned last week or the week before on CBS), it kind of damns the selection made.
 
There is no way you could really tell who was going to heal and be better but Dante was playing terrible before the injury and has continued the trend here and it stinks. He played well today but it's the Houston Texans we are talking about here.
 
28 for 38 , 349 yards against the Panthers D............I think Brees is healed, but i'm no doctor.......
 
BgBruthaJuvi said:
Forget what we've seen of this season. If someone asked you if you would sign a QB with 1 or 2 good seasons under his belt for 60 million dollars (equivalent or more than Tom Brady's salary just so you get an idea of how much money the guy is making) and coming off major rotator cuff surgery, you would have to be absolutely insane beyond comprehension. He simply asked for too much money at a time when we had none. That's why we didnt get Peterson, Arrington, or Hutchinson. We got stuck with huge contracts from the Wanny era. We had to move around money on Culpepper's contract like crazy just to barely fit under the cap. Hindsight is 20/20 and Brees looks great while Culpepper is iffy.

Remember though he wasn't supposed to play till late October, so who knows how that knee is affecting him. Maybe it's a bad move by Saban to start him this early, I don't know. What I'm saying is that I see a lot of people criticizing the Dolphins for picking Daunte. I think they made the only decision they could have with the info they had. It's like blaming us for passing on Tom Brady, things like that happen.
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Um the Saints are 3-1 and putting up big offensive numbers....the dolphins are 1-3 and struggling to move the football.

So I'm not sure I agree with this logic at all....Brees would most certainly have been the better choice.
 
BgBruthaJuvi said:
Forget what we've seen of this season. If someone asked you if you would sign a QB with 1 or 2 good seasons under his belt for 60 million dollars (equivalent or more than Tom Brady's salary just so you get an idea of how much money the guy is making) and coming off major rotator cuff surgery, you would have to be absolutely insane beyond comprehension. He simply asked for too much money at a time when we had none. That's why we didnt get Peterson, Arrington, or Hutchinson. We got stuck with huge contracts from the Wanny era. We had to move around money on Culpepper's contract like crazy just to barely fit under the cap. Hindsight is 20/20 and Brees looks great while Culpepper is iffy.

Remember though he wasn't supposed to play till late October, so who knows how that knee is affecting him. Maybe it's a bad move by Saban to start him this early, I don't know. What I'm saying is that I see a lot of people criticizing the Dolphins for picking Daunte. I think they made the only decision they could have with the info they had. It's like blaming us for passing on Tom Brady, things like that happen.
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Scott Linehan: Culpepper > Brees

[SIZE=-1]Doug Marrone[/SIZE]: Brees > Culpepper

Miami offensive players: CPep > Brees

Trust me- I know what Brees is and what he isn't.
 
yeah well that is all relevannt but so is the fact that brees is winning and we are losing and that is the bottom line i cant see how you could say that passing on him was a good idea.
 
Culpepper is done. He has no mobility and the past 4 games he has shown hes not a great pocket passer. He needs too much time to get rid of the ball now and you cant do that in todays NFL unless you have a brick wall for an OL. Right now our OL seems to made of wet kleenex.

Harrington will be starting soon. Not bc of Dauntes playing but bc there is no way he can hold up.
 
culpepper=disaster

silverloop13 said:
Culpepper is done. He has no mobility and the past 4 games he has shown hes not a great pocket passer. He needs too much time to get rid of the ball now and you cant do that in todays NFL unless you have a brick wall for an OL. Right now our OL seems to made of wet kleenex.

Harrington will be starting soon. Not bc of Dauntes playing but bc there is no way he can hold up.
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am i the only finfan that wants culpepper to go away? he is on a pace to be sacked 80 times this season. is saban afraid he is going to hurt dauntes feelings if he puts in harrington? we are going NOWERE with culpepper. we got harrington for a backup for a reason. well my freinds, that reason is here.
 
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