Dolphins to Culpepper: Your future's not here
BY JEFF DARLINGTON
jdarlington@MiamiHerald.com
YOU MAKE THE CALL
Are the Dolphins making a mistake by choosing Trent Green instead of Daunte Culpepper? Here's a comparison of the two veteran QBs, both coming off injury-plagued seasons:
-- Age: Culpepper -- 30; Green -- *37.
-- Height, weight: Culpepper -- 6-4, 265; Green -- 6-3, 217.
-- 2006 stats: Culpepper -- 4 games, 81 for 134, 929 yards, 2 TD, 3 INT; Green -- 8 games, 121 of 198, 1,342 yards, 7 TD, 9 INT.
-- Career stats: Culpepper -- 85 games, 1,759 of 2,741, 21,091 yards, 137 TD, 89 INT; Green -- 112 games, 2,143 of 3,527, 26,963 yards, 157 TD, 101 INT.
-- Serious injury sustained: Culpepper -- Knee (missed 21 games between 2005-06); Green -- Concussion (missed 8 games in '06).
-- Regular-season records as starter: Culpepper -- 39-45; Green -- 52-47.
-- Postseason records as starter: Culpepper -- 2-2; Green -- 0-1.
*-Turns 37 on July 9.
Quarterback Daunte Culpepper is officially on the way out of the Dolphins' door.
On the morning after acquiring Chiefs quarterback Trent Green, Dolphins officials notified Culpepper they are ''going in a different direction'' and will attempt to trade him.
Coach Cam Cameron and general manager Randy Mueller met with Culpepper Wednesday morning to notify him of their plans. Still, Culpepper said Mueller and Cameron also advised him that he would not be cut -- and he would be kept on the roster throughout the off-season despite his inevitable departure.
'They would like to trade me in order to `get something for me,' '' Culpepper said in an e-mail to The Miami Herald on Wednesday morning. ``However, it is my position that I have already been down that road and I am not interested in being traded.
``They have told me throughout the off-season that I am under contract to the Dolphins. Therefore, it will be up to them to either keep me under contract or release me. In the meantime, I will continue to work out at the facility with the team and prepare myself for training camp, wherever it may be.''
The decision to trade Culpepper comes a day after the medical staff cleared him to participate in an off-season practice Wednesday and this weekend's minicamp. It also comes on the same day Green will arrive in South Florida.
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