Desides said:
Do you watch games, or look at stats? The argument has done to death, but Culpepper wasn't getting sacked because his reads sucked. A healthy Culpepper is our future at QB, period. The only way we'll draft a QB is if Culpepper or Harrington die in freak accidents.
I'm not sure if using our first-round pick on the secondary for two years straight is the right way to go, but we definitely could use defensive draft picks.
A healthy Culpepper is our future? Okay doctor, you are telling me that Culpepper will be healthy 100% next year, and will be a pro bowl QB after 3 years seperated from pro bowl form?
THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES THAT CULPEPPER WILL EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN. Jesus Christ.
He's nothing but a science fair project now, and right now, the hypothesis we had on him has been incorrect, and the result so far costed us him sitting on the bench as our 3rd string QB, a 2nd round pick, and tons of money in the salary cap.
Untill Culpepper does anything in Miami, then you can say he's the future. But as of right now, he has shown nothing to warrant that.
Turning 30 this January, an old 30 not a young 30 as he does look like he's aging fast, so that means our future has 4-5 "good years" ahead of him, that's if he can somehow return to pro bowl form, a form that I again say, hasn't been there in 2 years. We'll be lucky if we get as much production from him as Baltimore gets from Steve McNair.
There are no guarantee's about his health, and about him ever being the same again. I am rooting for the guy, but I am just tired of people using his past to say that our future looks good.
If everyone had a mindset like that, then McNair and the Baltimore offense should be Top 5 in the league right now, as he was an MVP in 2003.