At 0-2, was Daunte Culpepper the Safer Pick for Miami?

On Sunday, the 0-2 Miami Dolphins will meet the also 0-2 Tennessee Titans.

Yes, the Miami Dolphins, the team who opened up their season against the defending Super Bowl champions, Pittsburgh Steelers, meaning they ARE the team ''destined'' to challenge the champions the most this season, SHOULD BE anyway, in paper, are 0-2.

Was picking Daunte Culpepper up the best choice?

The Miami Dolphins studied their medical reports on Daunte Culpepper and Drew Brees during their mid-March hunt for a franchise quarterback and came away with the belief that acquiring either offered risk and reward, but Culpepper was the safer pick.

So despite the fact the football staff's preference was to sign Drew Brees as an unrestricted free agent rather than give up a second-round pick to the Minnesota Vikings for Culpepper, the medical opinion prevailed.

It was, in the short-term snapshot of both players' recovery from injury, a decision that has not worked out as planned.

It was, in the short-term snapshot of both players' recovery from injury, the wrong decision.

''Let me just say this,'' Miami Dolphins head coach Nick Saban said in addressing the subject directly for the first time, ''It was a medical decision. I don't think medicine, personnel or any of that is an exact science.''

''I think we have good, professional people in that area. I think they made the best judgment they could make at the time relative to the circumstances. No one could predict the future. It is what it is right now.''

Well right now, they are 0-2 and you got to wonder if the best judgment has really been made. They have the Tennessee Titans on Sunday and if rookie QB Vince Young beats them to give Miami its third straight loss, then someone needs more explaining to do in this part of Florida.

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