Culpepper annouces retirement. YAY!

[Scott Campbell]

Is it possible that the single most important role of an agent is to keep the player from saying stupid shit like this?

[the_idle_threat]

[Pacopete4]

Did it for attention only... pathetic

Ironic, coming from a Favre fan.

You think Favre retired for attention?

[MadtownPacker]

Did it for attention only... pathetic

Ironic, coming from a Favre fan.

You think Favre retired for attention?

Take the high road Paco, take the high road my friend......

[Pacopete4]

Did it for attention only... pathetic

Ironic, coming from a Favre fan.

You think Favre retired for attention?

Take the high road Paco, take the high road my friend......

I'm just sick of that guy... but ya.. I didn't plan on getting in a fight over it, real Packer and Brett fans know he didn't do that..

[Pugger]

I'll bet Daunte is now rueing the day he turned down TT's offer earlier this summer....

[Fred's Slacks]

I'll bet Daunte is now rueing the day he turned down TT's offer earlier this summer....

Yeah, it really was the best offer for him. But he wanted an opportunity to start and GB wouldn't give him that. He should have realized that so far Rodgers has had trouble staying healthy. So if he could have come into training camp, learned the offense, then played well in the preseason, the opportunity to start may have presented itself. But he turned that down. He has no one but himself to blame for this situation.

[MJZiggy]

I'll bet Daunte is now rueing the day he turned down TT's offer earlier this summer....

Yeah, it really was the best offer for him. But he wanted an opportunity to start and GB wouldn't give him that. He should have realized that so far Rodgers has had trouble staying healthy. So if he could have come into training camp, learned the offense, then played well in the preseason, the opportunity to start may have presented itself. But he turned that down. He has no one but himself to blame for this situation.

They'd have hired him and he'd have started an iron man streak.

[BZnDallas]

i'm not trying to start anything here but when i heard the culpecker was retiring a thought came to mind and i haven't seen anybody else post about so here it is... i started to wonder if culpecker had signed to be the backup would brett still be a packer today?...

my reasoning for this is if culpecker signed to be the backup before the draft then TT probably wouldn't have drafted two qbs... then when brett announced that he wanted to come back it would have been between culpecker and favre and there is no way in hell (IMO) he would have taken pecker over favre... and in time favre (IMO) would have beaten AR out of the starting job... just a thought... any thoughts about that??

sorry if i'm

[run pMc]

My thought was if he was interested in reviving his career than maybe he should sign as a backup with a team that has a good QB coach or where the HC is a QB guru, sit a year and develop some actual QB skillz. SEA, NO, GB come to mind. He got by on athleticism (and Moss) when younger and I'd guess the knee injury robbed him of that.

I think Culfumbler wants to be a starter, and he wants to be paid like a starter. I guess I can't fault him for that -- but reality says a different perspecitive is called for.

The other route is to look at a team like BAL. He must have rubbed enough people the wrong way (e.g., reinjuring his knee while fooling around in OAK, getting escorted off the field by security in MIA) that he's been blacklisted.
I had alwyas heard he wasn't the brightest guy; the more I hear of/from him the more he convinces me of this.

[cpk1994]

Did it for attention only... pathetic

Ironic, coming from a Favre fan.

You think Favre retired for attention?

No, but I find it quite funny that a fan of Favre, a player who is an attention whore, would call another QB pathetic and doing sonething only for attention, hence the word ironic.

[mraynrand]

Has Culpepper returned yet?

[cpk1994]

Has Culpepper returned yet?

Nope, he still has to text Mort first.

[Gunakor]

i'm not trying to start anything here but when i heard the culpecker was retiring a thought came to mind and i haven't seen anybody else post about so here it is... i started to wonder if culpecker had signed to be the backup would brett still be a packer today?...

my reasoning for this is if culpecker signed to be the backup before the draft then TT probably wouldn't have drafted two qbs... then when brett announced that he wanted to come back it would have been between culpecker and favre and there is no way in hell (IMO) he would have taken pecker over favre... and in time favre (IMO) would have beaten AR out of the starting job... just a thought... any thoughts about that??

sorry if i'm

I don't recall hearing or reading anywhere about TT looking for a veteran QB before the draft in the first place. On top of that, before the draft Favre was retired. As per the timeline released by Ted Thompson and then confirmed by Brett Favre himself, Favre didn't call McCarthy until June 20th to express his desire to return to football. The two rookies had already been drafted and had gone through OTA's and MC already. Had Culpepper been signed before the draft you are absolutely correct that TT would not have drafted 2 QB's, but there is nothing to support the idea that an offer had even been made prior to the draft. Besides, if Culpepper were signed before the draft, the only QB we'd have drafted would have been Brian Brohm. Flynn would have been the odd man out, and it would appear that Flynn might be the greater of the two rookies we drafted. To be perfectly honest, I like Flynn as the #2 better than I like Culpepper as the #2. And expanding on that a bit, I like Flynn as the #2 next year more than I'd like Brohm as the #2 next year, and if we'd have signed Culpepper that's exactly what we'd have next season. Flynn would not be a Packer.

[Carolina_Packer]

He wasn't out of talent or desire, he just couldn't fully recover from his injury. It doesn't really matter if a guy wants to represent himself or not, although I don't think I'd ever try to do that if I was a player; leave it to the experts.

Bottom line, if he could still play to a certain acceptable/desired level, someone would have given him a job. I read an article that quoted Sharper sticking up for him saying he's probably still better than a lot of guys who are employed in the league; they get a shot and he doesn't. We know that NFL teams are not afraid to bring in questionable character guys, and I don't think that was the real knock on Culpepper, so at the end of it all, it had to be GM's not believing he could achieve a high enough level of play to warrant giving him a job, although we know that our GM at least kicked the tires/took a flyer and Culpepper turned it down. In the end, it was the injury.