MERGEDX3: Former Dolphin Daunte Culpepper Retires - Page 4

HughC · 09-04-2008, 01:02 PM

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/f...,4613234.story

Talk about denial. Teams wouldn't sign him because he was representing himself? Yeah, every NFL team would much prefer to negotiate with Drew Rosenhaus or Eugene Parker or some of the agents out there. Give me a break, every NFL team wishes every player represented himself.

209Mason · 09-04-2008, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by SpaceMountain16

Well my point is that Daunte Culpepper was a very good Quarterback when he was HEALTHY in this league. I know he failed enormously in Miami but i think thats more of an attribute to inept scouting/front office decisions who really should have never picked up a guy with a serious injury like that. Culpepper was accurate, strong armed, could move, and had the size to bull over people (on the rare occassion he could hold onto the ball). But once he had that knee injury he was never the same player. I'm tired of the "MOSS MADE CULPEPPER" argument.

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Originally Posted by SpaceMountain16

Note: See Oakland Raiders QB's with Randy Moss as target

Yeah well I'm tired of the Culpepper made Moss argument.. Culpepper had 3 good years (2000, 2003, and 2004) one of them being great (2004)... all of them with Moss.

Moss was no slouch his first year with the Raiders (1,000+ yards and 8 tds) and the other year he was injury plagued all year. Moss has done it with a different squad, Culpepper has not.

I already said that I like Daunte as a person... but as an agent he's horrible. His problem is he never understoond that he's just not the 40-TD quarterback from 2004, and he takes it personal when teams only want him brought in as a backup. He hasn't been effective in 3 years, yet he expects to be able to start somewhere. That is where an agent comes in... he would have been able to show Duante some realism as well as talk him up to the teams.

shula_guy · 09-04-2008, 01:09 PM

I heard he was inline to take Genne Upshaws postion!

tcdrover · 09-04-2008, 01:16 PM

I read somewhere that he is a Madden tournament winner or annual champion or something like that?

He's a malcontent...

SpurzN703 · 09-04-2008, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by SpaceMountain16

Did we even see it?

Only if he did the roll when he was sacked 89 times with us

retired opfinistic · 09-04-2008, 01:34 PM

Maybe he'll un-retire like Favre?

I knew I shouldn't have picked him and Shaun King as my FF QBs!

LemonPepper · 09-04-2008, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by dolpns13

Teams gave him a chance. Pittsburgh offered him a contract, and i forget which other team, but he turned them both down because of the money. Guess it pays to be your own agent. Proves the ONLY reason he was playing was for the cash and not cause he loved the game.. scumbag

How many people work because they love their job and not for the cash?This is a business too.

Myles Fynch · 09-04-2008, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by shula_guy

I heard he was inline to take Genne Upshaws postion!

Well, the voices in his head kept calling him to set up an interview, at any rate.

Spoiled, selfish, megalomaniacal, immature, self-idolizing, paranoid, and overrated. I don't think I left anything out. It's true he had some very good seasons and one great one, and it's true that his injury wasn't his fault & he rehabbed very hard to come back from it, but it is also very true that you can systematically destroy your own legacy on the way out the door if you are a complete idiot. Where hasn't this pyromaniac burned a bridge?

dolpns13 · 09-04-2008, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by LemonPepper

How many people work because they love their job and not for the cash?This is a business too.

true, but he was offered two jobs and turned them down because they werent good enough for him

DolfanDaveInATX · 09-04-2008, 01:49 PM

Typical attempt to spin stupidity into nobility. He should have hired a publicist to write it for him.

ThunderDan13 · 09-04-2008, 02:02 PM

I'm not gonna talk about having class and what not, and being a gracious non-winner....

But really? He can be an NFL QB, a back-up. That's still very impressive, he could have gone to Green Bay or some other teams with young starters and its likely he would have had his shot.

He has a chance to continue to be a part of a team and be ready to step in when the need arises. I just don't get it... Is it pride? If it is that makes no sense, the NFL has 32 teams, just being a back-up in one of those makes you an elite athlete.

I tell my younger cousins always that there's no sin in doing anything that's respectable. A janitor who gives a full day's work should be respected. This wasn't being a custodian, it was a chance to continue being an NFL QB, and he's throwing it away? For what? Because A team like NE won't step in and give him a chance over a proven starter? Because no one is rolling out the red carpet for him? He has a chance to go somewhere and prove himself... I just don't get this guy.

dolpns13 · 09-04-2008, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ThunderDan13

I'm not gonna talk about having class and what not, and being a gracious non-winner....

But really? He can be an NFL QB, a back-up. That's still very impressive, he could have gone to Green Bay or some other teams with young starters and its likely he would have had his shot.

He has a chance to continue to be a part of a team and be ready to step in when the need arises. I just don't get it... Is it pride? If it is that makes no sense, the NFL has 32 teams, just being a back-up in one of those makes you an elite athlete.

I tell my younger cousins always that there's no sin in doing anything that's respectable. A janitor who gives a full day's work should be respected. This wasn't being a custodian, it was a chance to continue being an NFL QB, and he's throwing it away? For what? Because A team like NE won't step in and give him a chance over a proven starter? Because no one is rolling out the red carpet for him? He has a chance to go somewhere and prove himself... I just don't get this guy.

I dont think anyone does. That goes for moving the chains because they said the same thing, that someone needs to get into this guys head and get him on some type of path... Me, i just think he's an a-hole

nyjunc · 09-04-2008, 02:09 PM

If anyone has time and would like excellent reading materila go back through the archives and find all the Daunte arguments I was involved w/ when you guys got him.

MiggeMadness · 09-04-2008, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by TableFin

How could he NOT find work in Baltimore?

Who treated him like crap last year and ran him out of Miami?? (even though he deserved it)

Answer: Cam Cameron

Who would be his OC in Baltimore??

You got it! Cam Cameron....

csabe · 09-04-2008, 02:27 PM

It's a shame his knee injury ruined what was a promising career.

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ThunderDan13 Windy City Fin-Fan (ie. Lonely) Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Chicago Posts: 183 Credits: 7,821 Thanks: 31 Thanked 41 Times in 19 Posts	I'm not gonna talk about having class and what not, and being a gracious non-winner.... But really? He can be an NFL QB, a back-up. That's still very impressive, he could have gone to Green Bay or some other teams with young starters and its likely he would have had his shot. He has a chance to continue to be a part of a team and be ready to step in when the need arises. I just don't get it... Is it pride? If it is that makes no sense, the NFL has 32 teams, just being a back-up in one of those makes you an elite athlete. I tell my younger cousins always that there's no sin in doing anything that's respectable. A janitor who gives a full day's work should be respected. This wasn't being a custodian, it was a chance to continue being an NFL QB, and he's throwing it away? For what? Because A team like NE won't step in and give him a chance over a proven starter? Because no one is rolling out the red carpet for him? He has a chance to go somewhere and prove himself... I just don't get this guy. __________________

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09-04-2008, 01:09 PM	#48
shula_guy FinHeaven VIP Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,897 Credits: 13,922 Thanks: 259 Thanked 249 Times in 179 Posts FH Badges Total Awards: 1	I heard he was inline to take Genne Upshaws postion!

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tcdrover Pro Bowler Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,568 Credits: 1,708 Thanks: 24 Thanked 109 Times in 76 Posts	I read somewhere that he is a Madden tournament winner or annual champion or something like that? He's a malcontent...

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DolfanDaveInATX Nowhere to go but up. Go Dolphins! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 3,613 Credits: 2,278 Thanks: 14 Thanked 47 Times in 25 Posts	Typical attempt to spin stupidity into nobility. He should have hired a publicist to write it for him.

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csabe Pro Bowler Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 1,627 Credits: 2,152 Thanks: 228 Thanked 29 Times in 22 Posts	It's a shame his knee injury ruined what was a promising career.