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A league source tells us that the Atlanta Falcons are pondering the possibility of pursuing free-agent quarterback Daunte Culpepper.

The problem, however, is that the team does not want to create the perception that it believes that Vick's mental state, given the pending legal brouhaha, will not allow him to perform effectively in 2007.

For now, then, a final decision has not been made. As we see it, Culpepper likely will sign with someone else before the Falcons are in a position to make a move.

Also, the worst-case scenario for the Falcons would be to make a push for Culpepper, and then not get him, since it would in the same overall motion represent a concession that the franchise needs help at the position, and a failure to secure it. For that reason alone, the far safer course is to not even being the process of courting him.

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