Well actually he couldnt beat out Jay Fielder in 2000, got cut and the Pats picked him up.
I think to Huard's demise, he seems to play crappy in the preseason but his regular season play is very solid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Huard
"Former Dolphins coach Dave Wannstedt chose Jay Fiedler as the starter in 2000 despite Dan Marino's persistent lobbying for Huard to serve as his successor."

I have the same hope as everyone else. That Brodie can win the job outright. Because if he doesn't then we are pretty well stuck with playing Huard as stop gap until we can either get a quality FA QB or draft one.
I do think this is the reason that Herm mentioned taking another QB in this years draft. That way we don't have to wait an extra year either for the draft or to let them mature one season on the bench.

Hmmm this is Herm Edwards we are liable to go through all of our QB's this year.