Time travel

[Funkymonks]

Lets all go back to the begining of preseason to the original plan for the quaterbacks. What was suppose to happen was let Joey start the first 5-6 games and give Daunte that much more time to recover. That didn't happen but play along.

Now had this senario taken place what would be going on right now? Joey would be the one who was getting the bad rap for playing poorly and people would be calling for us to cut our loses and move on with our new starting QB. Daunte would be fully healthy and able to move and run and be closer to his former self. Even if Daunte wasn't competely healed by week 6, with the way the offensive line has been looking, I doubt that daunte would have as many sacks.

Comments?

 

[adamprez2003]

that assumes that harrington wouldve stood in the pocket like a statue through thosse gms. my feeling is we wouldve been 3-3 or better since harrington wouldve been familiar with the offense rather than just getting thrown in on the fly. Texans and Bills wouldve been victories imo and the jets probably. but then again who knows we mightve been 0-6

 

[Finfang]

that assumes that harrington wouldve stood in the pocket like a statue through thosse gms. my feeling is we wouldve been 3-3 or better since harrington wouldve been familiar with the offense rather than just getting thrown in on the fly. Texans and Bills wouldve been victories imo and the jets probably. but then again who knows we mightve been 0-6

I would have to totally agree adam.

The Fins would be 3-3 possibly 4-2 if Joey had been in there from the start.

Daunte's performance against the Bills was the worst outing by a Dolphin QB I have ever seen.

Ray Lucas included!

 

[adamprez2003]

I would have to totally agree adam.

The Fins would be 3-3 possibly 4-2 if Joey had been in there from the start.

Daunte's performance against the Bills was the worst outing by a Dolphin QB I have ever seen.

Ray Lucas included!

i dont know about that. ray lucas against the green bay packers on monday night is still the single worst performance i have ever seen. of course it was ray lucas so the expectations werent as high

 

[Mainge]

I would have to totally agree adam.

The Fins would be 3-3 possibly 4-2 if Joey had been in there from the start.

Daunte's performance against the Bills was the worst outing by a Dolphin QB I have ever seen.

Ray Lucas included!

There goes your credibility.

Did you ever watch Lucas?

 

[jbond]

Lucas wasn't getting paid 8 million to do it, lol.

As to the original question...I too feel we'd be at LEAST .500 right now....probably 4-2 if Joey was given the offseason reps as the starter. He'd be 2 months further into his "comfort zone" then he is now and we'd be looking better. One thing's for sure...Joey wouldn't have been sacked 21 times in 4 games.

This also would have allowed DC to be about 3 months further into rehab as he stopped rehabbing in the offseason in order to get on the field. He'd be that much closer to coming in at the end of the season or next year that much healthier and better off. What happens if Joey gets hurt? Cleo? I like the guy...but I'd rather have Daunte with 3+ extra months of rehab under his belt. Now...we have a QB who stopped rehab and is just now restarting, has been hit the hell out of because he can't run, and has some mental problems due to his inability to make a decision quite possibly shaking his confidence.

So...instead of starting the season out with the better QB (Joey, at the time)...we started the lesser and further lengthened the recovery time of Daunte possibly putting us in major jeopardy if Joey gets hurt.....imagine something like the year AJ and Fiedler both went down in a matter of minutes.

 

[jbond]

There goes your credibility.

Did you ever watch Lucas?

Lucas looked good in preseason against 3rd stringers (where have we seen that before)....but couldn't do crap against 1st stringers....

 

[gish]

i dont know about that. ray lucas against the green bay packers on monday night is still the single worst performance i have ever seen. of course it was ray lucas so the expectations werent as high

Wait a second...I thought Lucas' first game VS Buffalo was the worst QB performance of alltime.

Then I watched Monday Night Football on October 16th, 2006 and watched Rex Grossman.

Odd how the Bears won that one and we got blown out of the water.