Daunte Culpepper retires

You've been waiting your whole life for that to happen, haven't you?

 

Hell, he can't do any worse than Tyler Thigpen.

 

Ehh. I've already been right at least once this week.

 

I hate to say it, but Thigpen's gonna probably get hurt, too. Either he's going to get blind-sided or he's going to scramble downfield one too many times.

 

Who ISN'T going to get hurt in KC?

 

Exactly. Why would Culpepper come back, only to be forced back into retirement because his spine needs to be fused.

 

A 31-going-on-32 year-old QB coming off several years of catastrophic injuries makes no sense at all whatever for a horrible team like KC. (I see the usual bullshit about 'mentoring the youth' is included. : )

Suppose he comes back and plays at, ohh, say, 70% of his peak level. Then what you have is a below-average QB playing for a horrible team.

Suppose he comes back and starts regaining his skills. Then in 3 years, what you have is a 35-year-old QB on a team just starting to get good.

Mediocre (or worse) teams signing these middle-aged journeymen just drive me nuts. Even if the guy plays "well," all he does is roadblock the process of you developing a legitimately decent QB.

The only value, if any, Culpepper might have, would be to a pretty good team which already has an adequate QB, as injury insurance (or maybe to take over, if the 'adequate' incumbent melts down). That would mean the Patriots, maybe the Cowboys, I dunno, I suppose maybe the Packers, or even back with the Vikes.

But there really wasn't much indication from his most recent stints that he's not finished.