The people running the Miami Dolphins are a delusional bunch. How delusional? They actually believe they're going to get someone or something really, really good for quarterback Daunte Culpepper.

I'd like to know what it is they're taking down there because it's gotta be some really good stuff. They're absolutely insane believing that they're going to receive anything even approaching the term "good" in exchange for him in a trade. They would need to get any other general manager drunk to even think about pulling that trade. Even then, that GM might face a riot outside his office.

Culpepper, acting as his own agent, is doing the best thing he can. First, and most importantly, he's thinking about what is in the best interests of his career. He's also doing a far superior job attempting to protect the future of the franchise than their front office seems interested in doing.

He is asking for a release from the team. This would free the Dolphins, as well as any other franchise that signs him, from having to pay him the remaining $51 million plus his current deal requires he be paid. He is smart enough to know that no team with a competent GM (read: a team with a chance in hell of winning a Super Bowl in his lifetime) is going to screw his team's salary cap with that contract. Too bad management in Miami isn't smart or talented enough to realize this themselves.

Further, instead of taking an incredibly talented, young franchise quarterback in the draft, they worked and hounded Kansas City for the rights to been-ridden-like-a-mule Trent Green. Green was a great QB back in the day – and by "back in the day," I mean the mid-to-late '90s. I'm not sure if his bell has stopped ringing from that hit he took in week one against the Cincinnati Bengals last season (one of the few hits the Bengals made in 2006 that didn't get someone arrested). Green is 36 years old, which is ancient for the body of an NFL quarterback that's been getting beat around like a rag doll.

The Dolphins already spent a fortune to get a badly broken quarterback in Culpepper. He's spent two years collecting Miami Dolphin paychecks and barely had to do anything to get them. Sure he tried to play so he could justify the money he was getting, but in the end his surgically reconstructed knee just couldn't take the abuse a pro football player puts on them.

Now the Dolphins are taking the same risk with Green. The question is similar to that of Culpepper: Can his body take the abuse? I don't think so. If you look at his statistics upon his return to the Chiefs lineup last year, they show a player that was a shell of his former self. He was no longer asked to go out there and win the game with his arm. Instead he was asked to go out there and manage the game for his running back and his defense.

He will not get that same opportunity in Miami. He will have to win the game for them by doing everything in his power to continually get the ball to the likes of Chris Chambers. Sure the receivers are good, but at age 36 can he move around the pocket and even out of it effectively to get the pass away before getting clocked? Again, I don't think so.

Miami plays in the same division as the New England Patriots. That's two meetings against a defense that knows all too well what Green's been through. They aren't going to stand there and hold his hand. If anything, they're going to bury him deeper than Jimmy Hoffa at the Meadowlands.

They also face tough defenses in Oakland, Dallas, the New York Jets, the New York Giants, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, just to name a few. If Green gets through that schedule unscathed, he deserves to go to Canton.

While Daunte is coming back from serious knee injury, his doctors have deemed him healed. Any team looking for veteran leadership on the field is going to take a serious look at him. They also should look at the cannon he calls his arm. He has led the league in passing previously, and he's had no issues with his arm.

Personally, I am surprised that the only team being talked about is Jacksonville. Last I checked they had a decent — albeit constantly injured — quarterback in Byron Leftwich. There are multiple teams out there with gaping holes at quarterback that would be a much better fit to his skill than Jacksonville.

Leaving him another year to rot on the bench is not helping your team. It will create divisions that your lackluster, last place team doesn't need right now. Keeping Culpepper does nothing but split the locker room in half. You can only keep that under covers for so long before it ends up on the field and worse, the media. Once it's there, it's there for good. There is no taking anything back. You would be no better than the Oakland Raiders, and look what they've done the last couple seasons.

One way or another, Culpepper needs to divorce the Miami Dolphins. If the players union needs to get involved, then do it. He is being held hostage in a situation that the team has absolutely no right to be holding him in.

They've brought in a quarterback that barely knows what time zone he's in to replace him. They say they're waiting for the "right" deal to come along. They wouldn't know a "right" deal if they were slapped in the face with it.

If Miami had any common sense, they would know that the only deal they're going to find here is to cut him, save some money and maybe find someone that can help them win a game or two this season.

That is about all the fans in Miami can hope for in the upcoming season. Maybe they need to be asking for their release.