Time for the Vikings to trade Daunte Culpepper...

[SaveElmer]

He now wants to renogotiate his contract to make him one of the highest paid quarterbacks in football...

Give me a break...after the Love Boat incident, and his miserable play this past season, he is lucky he still has a job. Vikings would be better off naming Brad Johnson as the starter, and either make a trade for a young quarterback, Phillip Rivers maybe, or drafting one to groom.


http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/13657749.htm

[MsAnthropy]

1. I agree--Daunte needs to go

Why should he be treated like a prima donna for such mediocre play?

[AngryAmish]

2. I gotta stand up for Dante (gouges own eyes out)

I'm a Bears fan but I read the article. Dante is getting a raw deal on the Love Boat shit. He got a lap dance. He is charged with touching a strippers bum. If you don't touch a strippers bum during a lap dance then you are asexual.

Second, he signed a long-term deal. As a favor to the team. A long term deal allow the club to prorate (sp?) the salary for salary cap and tax reasons. NFL contracts are not guaranteed. The club can cut you whenever they want and you are out of a job. There is no reciprocity so asking for renegotiation is not akin to breaking a guaranteed contract (baseball, basketball).

Dante is a starting quarterback in the NFL. He could start for most teams. Randy Moss made him look good and he is an inaccurate passer but he can start in the NFL. A rare commodity. Let him renegotiate.

[AKPacker]

3. I would like to see the Vikes Keep him.

He is not a good QB and is not worth the money he is making right now. He probably could start for many NFL teams as long as it is not the Packers. Do you want to see him in a Bears uniform?

[SaveElmer]

5. But Childress made clear he was the #1 quarterback...

There is no danger of him being cut. If he is going to demand a raise his play ought to reflect that demand.

As to the Love Boat thing, I agree grabbing a lap dancers rear is probably expected behavior in a strip club. But the fact is they were on a boat cruise on Lake Minnetonka, which is a family oriented area. At best it was shameful and rude. Certainly affects the way I think of him.

[AKPacker]

6. Even if Childress is saying this.

There is always a chance for a trade until the ink dries on the contract.

[Rambis]

4. I am all for it

He has small hands you know what that means... He fumbles a lot.

[WeRQ4U]

7. I'm up in the air on this one.

He's definitely better than Brad Johnson. It wasn't Johnson who made the team win 6 of 8 games...it was the rest of the club. He was just there. And I'm not really jazzed about picking up an uproven youngster that's been sitting on the pine for two years.

I say give him another year to prove that he can actually play in the new scheme. If he can't....dish him to Oakland and reunite him with Randy. If he can, well, enough said.

He definitely doesn't deserve to be the highest paid QB in the league. He's dillusional if he thinks he is.

[eyepaddle]

8. That's pretty much my take on it.

The tale of two Vikings seasons is basically the defense showed up after Culpepper got hurt. Brad Johnson avoided egregious mistakes but added very little firepower to the offense.

If Culpepper would have miraculously healed at any point in the season (even the winning streak) I would've started him the very next week.

However, whether or not he was brought down by a poor teamor not, he DID have a miserable season, and will likely miss a large chunk of next year, I'd say now is not the best time for him to ask for more money.

Edited to add, also I'm not sure how trade-valuable Culpepper might be with what is potentially a career ending injury. Dealing him for a fifth round pick and wedge-breaker, only to have him recover and then go on to CRUSH somewhere down the line is NOT what I am looking for.

[WeRQ4U]

9. I don't think he wants to be in MN anyway.

He bitches about not being respected during the win streak. He talks about how he wasn't being catered to during his injury. He's been complaining about not being the undeniable number one QB here. And now he's asking for more money following a season where he had more picks in 5 games than some QB's had all year, and he turned his knee ligaments into sock yarn. Perhaps he and his agent are trying to make the decision to move him that much easier.

Either way, the options as a replacement are sketchy.

[SaveElmer]

10. Johnson is steady...

He doesn't make mistakes, and keeps the Vikes in games...and he is a Super Bowl winner so he knows how to handle an offense.

Culpepper is almost too athletic for his own good, gets happy feet too quick, and makes too many mistakes. If the Vikes could swing a deal for Rivers I think it would be worth it.

[WeRQ4U]

11. I guess time will tell. n/t