Culpepper visiting Lions today
Posted on October 28th, 2008 – 10:37 AMBy Mark Craig
The Daunte Culpepper saga continues with a report this morning that he canceled today’s scheduled trip to Kansas City for a workout with the Lions in Detroit.
Culpepper must think the long-term potential is greater in Detroit, where veteran Jon Kitna is on injured reserve and most likely has played his final game for the Lions. Culpepper would compete with Dan Orlovsky and Drew Stanton over the final nine meaningless games to see if one of them is good enough to begin 2009 as the starter. Chances are good that the new coach will blow up the whole shebang and start over with a new QB, if possible.
In Kansas City, the Chiefs placed Brodie Croyle and Damon Huard on injured reserve. The Chiefs aren’t as likely to give up on the young Croyle after this season. Also, the Chiefs have a more intriguing young player currently starting in Tyler Thigpen. He looked good in Sunday’s loss to the Jets.
BTW, if Culpepper had signed with the Chiefs, there would have been three NFL teams with former Vikings as their top two QBs: San Francisco, which has Shaun Hill and J.T. O’Sullivan; Dallas, which has Brad Johnson and Brooks Bollinger; and the Chiefs, who have Thigpen and would have had Culpepper.
30 Responses to "Culpepper visiting Lions today"
Go ahead and take him. Talk about making a fool of yourself. I dont think my 2 yr old could’ve done a worse job representing Duante than Duante did.
If culpepper plays for Detroit, we get to smash him when we play them next… that would be great payback for his mall PT in Miami. What a knucklehead.
Don’t be too sure that the Vikings that Colonel Klink Chillydink puts on the field would do anything to stop Culpepper, especially after the suspensions are doled out. They almost (and should have) lost to Detroit last time. Next time it’s in their house.
Do you really think that Chilly could have done a worse job handling Duante when he came here from Philly. True, Duante went on to make an ass of himself after being traded to Miami, but the trade never needed to happen. Duante’s ego is big, but Chilly’s is bigger. If Culpepper had stayed here, spent a year rehabbing, would we be 2-3 right now? Good question, food for thought. One the other hand, with the economy tanking and the world going to hell in a handbasket awfully quickly, who really cares about any of this crap?
There was another report that KC cancled their meeting with Daunte, not the other way around. Not sure which one is right. Just thought I’d throw that out there.
I’m starting to think Daunte might be dual personality. I could imagine the converstations he has with himself.
“Colonel Klink Chillydink” — CLassic, love it!!
To “collectorman”: Hopefully your 2 year old can spell better than you. It’s Daunte, not Duante.
Daunte’s biggest mistake is thinking that he could serve as his own agent. That was the biggest mistake of his career, and it continues to haunt him.
Daunte was a good player but he made the mistakes that hurt him the most. After coming back the season after his big injury, when Chilly came to MN, Daunte asked for a pay raise. Of course he never received that raise. Then Daunte refused to train in Minnesota during the off-season which Chilly and the Viking coaches wanted. The guy decided his future which is too bad.
hey Swamp Thing, I hope you were being sarcastic. I mean, give me a break, now your going to go after Chilly for getting rid of Daunte? I want to get in to that koolaid that your in to! What has Daunte done since he left? And fyi, once you put down the jug, check out the Vikings record……2-3 they are not.
Culpepper REALLY needs an agent to help the guy THINK!
KC is NOT going to put up with Croyle. He is done. So…they are back to the draft. Unless they draft someone on the caliber of Flacco or Ryan next year, Culpepper would get to play next year. And face it…these are the Chiefs…they don’t know how to draft a quarterback. Culpepper had a much longer window of opportunity at KC.
Besides Daunte being stupid enough to ask for a raise after major knee surgery and refusing to rehab where your team wants you to, he refuses to stop making mistakes. He misjudged the NFL and teams before we traded him, but he did it again this off season. He received an offer of $1 million to be a back up QB, but he decided he was worth more. Well, you’re only worth what people will pay you. And then he was worth nothing. If you’re unemployed and the choice is between a janitor job or welfare, the janitor job is your best offer and what you are worth.
So…never mind my first comment. The KC paper online reported that it was KC who canceled the meeting. With Thigpen’s performance in NY they felt Culpepper wasn’t needed.
Someone get KC a doctor.
He might do ok in Detroit, he will have a deep threat again like he had with Moss in Minnesota. I wouldn’t count this Dainty out so fast.
I think that all people should leave anxiety to the Lord because He cares for you .
I’d rather have Daunte as our quarterback than bonerhead as our coach. He got hurt trying to make something happen when they were struggling against Carolina because they didn’t have a good offensive line. He was a guy that we knew would run for yardage at the drop of a hat when we needed a first down. He’s better than anyone we have now. I don’t understand why Viking fans hate Daunte, Moss, and other former Vikings because they got traded by Red Mcholmes or bonerhead. The hatred seems to be directed in the wrong direction.
Who cares, must be a slow news day
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Daunte’s career was ended by a CHEAP SHOT plain and simple!!
Daunte can only be as good as the players he has around him. That will never happen in Detroit.
I was ecstatic when Daunte left the queens. His inconsistency, inability to read defenses, penchance for injury and consistent fumbling was his achilles heel. Good luck Detroit if you take him. We would love to pick up some of them fumbles and bumbles and pick off a few passes too! It’s just too bad Chilly can’t make the intelligent calls when the chips are down. Hopefully he will start to make good use of the talent he has on this team (less a top notch QB of course) Just don’t bring Daunte back to Minnesota!
Dumping Culpepper was the one thing that Childress did right. Daunte washed out in Miami, he washed out in Oakland, and no one’s picked him up. Imagine if we were foolish enough to still be paying his ridiculous salary!
I can’t believe that some of you think Daunte actually had a future before Childress. I remember a no-talent hack who simply threw the ball up in the air, and relied on Randy Moss (who DOES have all the talent in the world) to go and take the ball away from defenders.
Without Moss, Culpepper who have been worse than nothing. Just like he is now.
Why would any team want to sign Culpepper. He is not smart enough to read a cereal box let alone a NFL defense.
An agent makes 8-10%. Any agent could have got Daunte 10% MORE than he ever was offered himself. When a player negotiates for himself, owners know to offer him 10% less because he doesn’t have to pay the agent. They’ll pay the extra for the agent because they know agents represent other players that might want to someday play for their team. And agents also take all the heat in the media and online. Instead, Daunte gets called everything from arrogant to no-talent to dumb. Why on earth he doesn’t have representation to take all the heat instead makes no sense at all. Unless he’s arrogant with no-talent and dumb.
Culpepper is a idiot, it will take him 5 years to learn the Lion’s playbook.
The Lions have a playbook?!?
The Lions playbook has lots of pretty colored pictures and arrows for Daunte to follow, but do put the cart before the horse. Detroit will have to accept his money damands, I do not think even the management will pay that kind of money to player who could not make a work out in KC. I think Daunte problem is his ego, once he wakes up and sees the world has passed him by he will leave the NFL and get a job as a QB coach with Dallas (what a joke that would be).
craig, either you are wrong, the chiefs have lost their minds, or culpepper is not thinkingg it thru eno or has other reason for preferring detroit.
thigpen stinks. one good game means nothing. kc does NOT have a qb. detroit does. as for croyle, the worry was he was going to get repeatedly hurt. he did. several different times. he finally came back. a few weeks ago. could he at least last the rest of the season, for once? FOR ONCE? he lasted one quarter.
he is not the answer. unless a team wants to roll the dice every game for therest of his career. maybe on roster, backup, or starter if they like rotating qbs w a strong second qb
no one is thinking this thru
“”KC who canceled the meeting. With Thigpen’s performance in NY they felt Culpepper wasn’t needed.
Someone get KC a doctor.”"
spot on. kc is to judging qb play, apparently, as bush/mccain are to judging military strategies
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