Daunte Culpepper, freshly released from the Dolphins one day before the grievance hearing, would probably have thought to use MLK if he hadn’t gone with the Gandhi quote first.
“As I was going through this process I heard about a quote by Gandhi that best expresses my thoughts about this victory: ‘First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win,”‘ Culpepper, who serves as his own agent, said in an e-mail. “Now that I have won my freedom and I get to choose my next team, I am just like many other people who have to go out and find employment so that I can take care of my family.”
My first thought is that Culpepper must remain his own agent, even though it’s probably the wrong thing for him to do while searching for a new team, because it provides the interweb with tons of consistently mockable material (please see Pacman Jonesin’ for an expansion on this.) To actual football ramifications: I just wonder who’s going to pick up a QB that wants to start, but still probably has more rehab ahead of him, and the last thing any coach who gets Culpepper wants is to have the same problems with rushing him back as Miami did. Let’s look at the suitor possibilities:
- Jacksonville: back-up for Leftwich, Mike Tice is on the coaching staff.
- St. Louis: Marc Bulger is a free agent after the year is done, Scott Linehan is familiar with Daunte.
- Baltimore: Steve McNair, though steady, ain’t what he used to be. Then again, neither is Daunte
- Chicago: always in the running for another QB until Rex is consistent.
- Atlanta: only if Mike Vick is truly ditched by the Falcons with the charges over his head, and even then, I don’t know. Being around Joey Harrington again might be an uncomfortable repeat of last season.
My odds say Jacksonville, although I’m guessing Jack Del Rio just hates any quarterback he gets these days, regardless of whom he might be.
Filed under: NFL, free agency, odd stuff | Tagged: Daunte Culpepper, Miami Dolphins
I don’t think the Ravens have any cap room.
Just using this as a guide: http://www.askthecommish.com/salarycap/numbers.asp
Jacksonville? Nope.
They already have three black quarterbacks. How many do you think they need? I keed I keeed.
[waits for lightening bolt or comment deletion]
I heard the Packers might be interested (but that was on VikingUpdate dot com, and you know you can’t trust Vikings on Packer related matters).
The strange thing is that the Dolphins need Culpepper as much as anyone. I can’t see a 37 year old Jeff Garcia surviving a season behind that Dolphin offensive line.
Da Bears already have one ex-Dolphin QB on the roster, and I doubt they feel like spending more money on the QB position at this juncture. All three of our guys under center have demonstrated the ability to run the offense and win in the regular season, after all. And Daunte isn’t exactly an upgrade over Rex Grossman in the decision-making department. At least Rex has the excuse that he still hasn’t logged a whole lot of snaps at game speed.
St. Louis might be a good fit; their average OL is a lot better than Miami’s awful one. And their stable of WRs, although a bit long in the tooth, are proven playmakers.
— Ajax.
You bunch of fucking fools.
Daunte Culpepper is going to Alabama.
Roll Tide!
The only relevant question is…is the guy freakin’ healthy or not? If he ain’t healthy, not even the Crimson Tide will want him. I want to see him pass somebody’s…anybody’s physical first. His whole situation in Miami was a real Twilight Zone situation and he sounds like he just came out of the Twilight Zone with his bizarre comments. Lots of buzz about Jacksonville…good lord, what in the wide world of sports is Jack DelRio up to? If he wants Leftwich to punch him out, he should just man up and ask him to…not bring in another QB to piss him off further.
Nice Carlito reference!