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I found it interesting what Mort said in last nites MNF game coverage. He indicated that Saban was definitely more interested in Brees and the major reason that he past on him was because the Phin's medical people refused to sign off on him.
If this is true then it causes me to wonder about the quality of their medical staff.
I realize that hindsight is 20/20 but you'd think that they wouldn't have been so far off of about Brees potiential health and overall recovering possibilities.
Our loss... in a big way!
 
Honestly yeah I have to wonder if he'll be a little distrustful of them now. But, in their defense, if Brees gets hit a certain way next week and his career ends, all the sudden they look great.
 
I preferred Culpepper. My faith has been shaken, but not broken. We'll see. I did recognize that Brees was going to exactly the right offense for him.

What I didn't know is that we'd have been a great offense for him too, at the time by all means with Scott Linehan's playbook, Jason Garrett, and Charlie Baggett still here it looked like Culpepper was coming to the right offense.

Don't underestimate the power of Mularkey to take a far-sighted offense and make it myopic.
 
Honestly, is that how it always is when it comes to medical conditions.
There is the norm or probability of something and then there are the
stories that give you a warm and fuzzy.

There was a player for the Jets some years back that had a spinal
injury on the field and the said he would never walk. He is walking
today. There are countless stories like this. I'm sure the medical
staff said to themselves "If this guy never starts a game for
us because of this injury then I might be out of a job. However,
if this guy has a miraculous recovery and lights up the league
then we will just claim divine intervention and keep our jobs."
 
I preferred Brees big time over Culpepper, but seeing what the medical report said, you really can't blame them.

The way Brees has come back is just amazing!
 
360 degree tear in the labrum, capsule damage, partially torn rotator cuff...pins all through his shoulder. God. His recovery is nothing short of amazing.
 
i preferred brees bc we had to give nothing for him but i thought cpep was great too and once we got him, myself and every other fin fan convinced ourselves that he was the right choice.....at this point now it looks real bad bc of what brees has done.....he had never played that way in san diego....very good years yes but getting close to marino is just incredible.......but its time for us to move forward and forget about it......cpep will be back next year and better than ever
 
I believe money was another big factor in not signing him. I don't think we would have matched those 10 million/year the saints offered. Not at this point.
 
i have to admit i did not want brees because of the money he was demanding with a questionable throwing shoulder. i still stand by that, too, because it was a very risky proposition. however, i think daunte was just as big a risk not only because of his size and knee injury - meaning he's a big guy which could mean he doesn't recover from his knee injury like a 200 lb wr, but also because he was struggling with his play even before he got injured.

also, is brees that good that he could overcome the mularky effect? possiby, but putting up numbers despite mularky is a challenge for even the greatest of QBs.
 
thecoordinator said:
i have to admit i did not want brees because of the money he was demanding with a questionable throwing shoulder. i still stand by that, too, because it was a very risky proposition. however, i think daunte was just as big a risk not only because of his size and knee injury - meaning he's a big guy which could mean he doesn't recover from his knee injury like a 200 lb wr, but also because he was struggling with his play even before he got injured.

also, is brees that good that he could overcome the mularky effect? possiby, but putting up numbers despite mularky is a challenge for even the greatest of QBs.
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Not to mention that his mobility was what made him most dangerous and effective in 2004.

In Minnesota, he had a pro bowl center and a pro bowl guard, that allowed him to buy time and use his mobility to make plays. In Miami, IF, and that's a big IF, he ever plays a down again, he's going to have to adjust to this offensive line. He's going to have to play quicker than before, he's going to have to move his legs faster, and he has to make quicker decisions; that's a lot to ask from someone who is still recovering from a tri ligament tear.
 
thecoordinator said:
i have to admit i did not want brees because of the money he was demanding with a questionable throwing shoulder. i still stand by that, too, because it was a very risky proposition. however, i think daunte was just as big a risk not only because of his size and knee injury - meaning he's a big guy which could mean he doesn't recover from his knee injury like a 200 lb wr, but also because he was struggling with his play even before he got injured.

also, is brees that good that he could overcome the mularky effect? possiby, but putting up numbers despite mularky is a challenge for even the greatest of QBs.
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That is a good question... Sean Peyton would probably make JH look like a Pro bowler also.
 
Always 20-20

Saban4prez said:
"let it go."
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Hind sight would have had us draft Tom Brady. There wasn't an NFL team that didn't have a shot at him, before the Pats finally drafted him.
 
ckparrothead said:
I preferred Culpepper. My faith has been shaken, but not broken. We'll see. I did recognize that Brees was going to exactly the right offense for him.

What I didn't know is that we'd have been a great offense for him too, at the time by all means with Scott Linehan's playbook, Jason Garrett, and Charlie Baggett still here it looked like Culpepper was coming to the right offense.

Don't underestimate the power of Mularkey to take a far-sighted offense and make it myopic.
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I preferred Brees, but I certainly didn't cry when we got Culpepper and the reasons why we chose the knee over the shoulder, the guaranteed money and all that.

What I didn't know is that between the line and the playcalling, Brees would have been such a good fit for this offense, and that he'd go out and definitely earn every dollar's worth of 10 million guaranteed in comparision to Miami, where weekly our vertical passing game is limited to how far Harrington can overthrow a reciever deep.

We've got to get some line help this offseason and give Culpepper a chance to open it up, not to mention getting rid of the inconsistent overachieving we're getting now from the OL. :(
 
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