C-Pep Watch

I've been trying hard to decide what to make of the Dolphins picking up QB Daunte Culpepper last week. I mean, I knew that he had a bad season with the Vikes last year, but I didn't pay that much attention to the circumstances, so I really don't know what kind of quality we're getting. And after the whole Ricky Williams fiasco, I'm sure you will forgive me for being skittish on the subject of Mystery Marquee Acquisitions.

Well, anyhoo, Dan Le Batard says don't worry: The potential is there for Culpepper to do glorious things. And even if he doesn't work out, Saban got him for such a ridiculously small price that the gamble would have been well worth it.

I've scouted half a dozen other Dolphin sites and blogs and haven't come up with anything to really undercut the sense of Le Batard's argument. I'm still not convinced, but I think I can at least take the o-fficial Fin Fan barometer up a setting or two to "guardedly optimistic".

YIPS from Steve: "Guardedly optimistic" for a Fins Phanatic is equivalent to "Insanely delusional" for the normal public.

Look, you hired a coach who, if you squint just a bit, is named after the Prince of Darkness. What do you want?

Kettle? Meet Pot! Yips Back From Robbo: Uh, as a card-carrying, life long Sawx fan, are you actually in any position to make pronouncements about the normal public?