Dante Culpepper Retires

[J.Kim]

Aaron Brooks had some more impressive seasons than people realize.

Take out his 2003 season and his career is decidedly unremarkable.

But my statement was more so a shot at McNown, Couch and Smith who were supposed to be franchise QBs, as opposed to a shot at Aaron Brooks.

[Fatty]

His retirement papers were intercepted on the way to the league office.

This joke never gets old.

it just did

[NeedsMoreCheese]

Well, at least he played more years in the league than Tim Couch and Akili Smith (both picked ahead of him) combined.

That 99 first round sure turned out pretty crappy. Especially for QBs.

There were only four successful QBs to come out of that draft, and by successful, I mean made the playoffs:

Donovan F. McNabb
Daunte Culpepper
Shaun King (he took over mid-season for Trent Dilfer, FWIW)
Aaron Brooks

Yeah. King also made the playoffs while starting all 16 games the next season. Im not sure why his career just basically ended, he wasnt terrible or anything.

Look at the top 13 picks, 5 of them were huge busts (and 2 of in the top 3 alone). That really had to suck for the Bengals, not only did Akili Smith turn out the way he did, they also had to live with the fact that they turned down 9 draft picks for that spot from Ditka. Though Id say Minnesota had the stupidest pick in the first round. (No not the Culpepper one)
Dimitrius Underwood was one of the worst picks ever. I mean when coaches from the guys college are telling you hes not Mentally Stable enough to play in the NFL, why in the hell would you use a first rounder on him?

[studcrackers]

His retirement papers were intercepted on the way to the league office.

This joke never gets old.

it just did

sportsworld is so damn lame, he can kill anything

[J.Kim]

Well, at least he played more years in the league than Tim Couch and Akili Smith (both picked ahead of him) combined.

That 99 first round sure turned out pretty crappy. Especially for QBs.

There were only four successful QBs to come out of that draft, and by successful, I mean made the playoffs:

Donovan F. McNabb
Daunte Culpepper
Shaun King (he took over mid-season for Trent Dilfer, FWIW)
Aaron Brooks

Yeah. King also made the playoffs while starting all 16 games the next season. Im not sure why his career just basically ended, he wasnt terrible or anything.

Look at the top 13 picks, 5 of them were huge busts (and 2 of in the top 3 alone). That really had to suck for the Bengals, not only did Akili Smith turn out the way he did, they also had to live with the fact that they turned down 9 draft picks for that spot from Ditka. Though Id say Minnesota had the stupidest pick in the first round. (No not the Culpepper one)
Dimitrius Underwood was one of the worst picks ever. I mean when coaches from the guys college are telling you hes not Mentally Stable enough to play in the NFL, why in the hell would you use a first rounder on him?

IIRC, I remember Shaun King as a smart, heady QB who was a bit short to be an NFL QB (along with a low release point), and would have passes batted down often near the LOS.

[Da Schwab]

King is probably the smartest football analyst on ESPN nowadays, though that really isn't saying a whole lot.

[PR07]

I have a hard time believing no one would give Culpepper a backup job, so I'm guessing it was about the money and years he wanted.

[Mr Awesome]

Eh, his knee is pretty much shot. He just doesn't have the strength or mobility he had preinjury.

[Pats19andO]

Figures, two days after he retires Brady blows out his knee