NodakPaul said:
porky88 said:
Oh come on. If Aaron Rodgers gets hurt and Craig Nall comes in the Packers are going to be alright. Yeah that's the smart move here. How about a rookie QB like David Booty or Flacco. Packers better call Brett Favre or they will be picking #2 if Rodgers gets hurt.
The Packers probably won't sign Culpepper. I'm guessing this is a smoke screen to make teams think they may not look at a QB in the Draft but if they did sign him it's not going to do anything to the franchise in a positive or negative way. Culpepper is a QB looking for a job. If he earns himself a roster spot in TC then he should make the team. If he doesn't he's gone.
Acting like a signing of a Daunte Culpepper would send the Packers into oblivion and put the Vikings in the driver seat is going over board. Had Culpepper never played in Minnesota I'm sure feelings on this would be a lot different.
The irony here is I'm not so sure Tavaris Jackson is much better than Daunte Culpepper. The little action Culpepper saw last season was ok for a backup QB. Jackson's QB rating was actually 9 points lower. Now that's saying something.
Jackson carried an 80.1 QB rating over the last half of the season...
Jackson's QB rating was a 70.8. The games in the beginning of the year count too. Regardless an 80.1 QB rating isn't much better than a 78. It's about on par.
Jackson had zero 300 yard games in 12 starts. His stats were 9 TD's and 12 INT's in 12 games with 1,911 yards.
Culpepper played in 5 games and had 5 TD's, 5 INT's, and 1,331 yards and one 300 yard game against the Vikings. That means in a 7 game span Culpepper would have to throw for about 100 yards in each game to match Jackson. Throw in a a 2 TD game and a TD pass every other game after that and he actually surpasses Jackson in TD passes. One INT a game and he ties him in picks.
So basically in a 7 game span he'd have to throw for 100 yards, 1 TD, and 1 INT to match Jackson. Give or take obviously. So he'd have to be the Culpepper from Miami.
That either tells me of two things
1. If Culpepper is washed up then the Vikings are going no where with Jackson.
2. If Jackson can get the job done then Culpepper at the very least can be a backup.
Further more Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy are not idiots. If they thought Culpepper would be a head case and any threat to Aaron Rodgers then they wouldn't sign him. My guess is he'd know his role if he came here because if he didn't, he wouldn't be here long enough to be a problem.