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They did him a disservice then...why not just say he's doubtful to return?
i don't know there's a lot of gray area here and we don't know about with this situation.
The real story here though is why the fuck was Todd Collins the #2 QB?? 10/27, like 97 yards, 0TD's, 5INT's was his year stats...add in his Leftwich like mobility and this staff didn't think Hanie was better than that?Originally posted by Nick MangoldComment
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Cutler's an asshole/loser from what I've heard/seen in the media... The reason this story is so big is because the majority of people feel the same way!
Dude is a known quitter, this isn't the first time.
The funny thing is on Sunday there was an article that ran in the Denver Post about how Cutler quit on the Broncos... Apparently the day Josh McDaniels was hired Jay phoned the Broncos front office and informed them he was demanding a trade... It was all kept quite, than the whole Cassle thing happen and McD was made out to be the bad guy...
Cutler's an asshole/loser now we can add quiter!
Fuck this guy I feel bad for Bears fans.Comment
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Yeah you did, until you sat out the final two games when your team needed to win just one to make the playoffs....:
"All I'm saying is that he can finish the game on a hurt knee... I played the whole season on one...""Comment
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I think it's pretty hilarious that as the league continues pretending to care about player safety the biggest story is how Cutler should have gone back in with an injured knee.
Either way playing injured is the standard so Cutler is gonna have to eat a loss here.Comment
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C'mon guys, you made Cutler cry!
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I don't care about any of this stuff really, but why do you guys like Jay Cutler?
What do you see in him at all that makes you believe in him and admire him as a quarterback?
I really don't understand it. There are so many things to hate about the guy and not really anything to like.Comment
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Such as?
I find it ridiculous in a league that has convicted felons and guys like TO, Haynesworth, etc that people can find "so many things to hate" about Cutler. He's never in trouble with the law, he doesn't get loud in the media, by all accounts since he has come to the Bears he has been one of the hardest workers on the team. Get his face kicked in all season and keeps getting up etc Does charity work quietly behind the scenes and pretty much keeps to himself and stays out of the public eye.
His worst offense is being
but he's like that win or lose and I struggle to find any reason, let alone "so many" to actually hate the guy.
He's an immensely talented player and frustrating as hell with the decisions on throws he makes but that doesn't make me hate him...or anything close to it.Comment
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They are crucifying his ass right now on this dc sports station. Think its a national show though
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Seriously? He is widely recognized as a cocky crybaby who doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself and an all around douchebag. Surely you've seen interviews with him just blowing questions off like an asshole?Such as?
I find it ridiculous in a league that has convicted felons and guys like TO, Haynesworth, etc that people can find "so many things to hate" about Cutler. He's never in trouble with the law, he doesn't get loud in the media, by all accounts since he has come to the Bears he has been one of the hardest workers on the team. Get his face kicked in all season and keeps getting up etc Does charity work quietly behind the scenes and pretty much keeps to himself and stays out of the public eye.
His worst offense is being but he's like that win or lose and I struggle to find any reason, let alone "so many" to actually hate the guy.
He's an immensely talented player and frustrating as hell with the decisions on throws he makes but that doesn't make me hate him...or anything close to it.
This isn't even a secret. The entire leagues sees Cutler like this. I don't know how you aren't aware of this.
Of course he has tried his best to change his attitude in Chicago, he had no choice but to do so. But the true dbag comes out in his body language and interview sessions. He can try all he wants to be cliche and fool people into thinking that he has changed, but he ain't fooling me.
"I don't know, you tell me."
A phrase that can be heard at a Jay Cutler press conference.
In between rolling his eyes and giving curt responses, the phrase "I don't know, you tell me," is a point at which you know the press conference is about to end.
Not because all the questions have been asked. Or all the answers have been given.
Because the subject is unwilling to respond in a civilized manner.
Jay Cutler has been described as spoiled, smug, a guy with the personality of a doorstop.
But the one description that is sticking the most is: Jay Cutler is a punk.
In a radio interview with Kevin Acee, Matt Wilhelm touched on this when he said, "He is a punk, I'm just not a huge fan of his. He and Tony Gonzalez are the biggest crybabies in the league."
Where does Wilhelm's animosity stem from? Much of it can be traced back to Christmas Eve 2007.
The Chargers were facing the Broncos and were about to defeat a Cutler-led team for the fourth straight time. Both teams were doing a lot of talking, but Cutler decided to take it one step further.
What did Cutler say?
"If I could, I would say them," Wilhelm said. "But they're unfit for...radio. They're something that probably only happens on the football field or when you're extremely, extremely angry at someone."
Yet Philip Rivers is widely thought responsible for the "trash talking." Why is this?
Partially this comes from Cutler's comments about Rivers. "I’m just not that big of a fan of the guy.” Cutler continued, “I don’t like how he carries himself. I don’t like some of the stuff he does on the field.”
But the main reason for this perception is that the cameras only captured Rivers responding to Cutler during that Christmas Eve game. Rivers can be seen saying "Atta, baby" as well as "The ball is over there" in Cutler's direction.
As Eric Allen pointed out on Colin Cowherd's radio program, what the audience saw at home doesn't tell the whole story.
"What people don't realize is there is lots of stuff going on on a football field," Allen said.
"People don't know, when I'm looking at film I see some things that happen after the play because I'm looking at the film, the team's copy. I'm not gonna say what part of the anatomy that Denver's quarterback was grabbing. But he was making some gestures that, uh, weren't PG TV."
Allen continued, "One of the things that Philip Rivers is is he's one of the guys. And when you have quarterbacks like that they're OK to stand by the defense. It's like, 'Hey, you know what, this is my football team if you are gonna talk I'm gonna give it right back to ya.' And that's how he's been and that how he'll continue to be."
One part of that Allen interview stands out—the phrase "one of the guys." Something Jay Cutler might know a little about.
Not with cameras catching him bad-mouthing his wide receivers on the field. (Hopefully the kids at home can't read lips.) Not with his bad mouthing of his defense in the press, calling out his star wide receiver in the offseason, all the while displaying a healthy dose of arrogance.
The same arrogance that led him to proclaim that there was no team with a better chance to reach the Super Bowl than the Broncos.
The same arrogance that led him to tell The Sporting News' Steve Greenberg, "I have a stronger arm than John, hands down. I'll bet on it against anybody's in the league. Brett Favre's got a cannon. But on game days, there's nobody in the league who's going to throw it harder than I am at all."
That's the type of thinking that displays why he is second in the NFL in interceptions. As Peter King commented, "sometimes he forces balls into coverage that are just plain bad decisions. Check out his second-quarter throw with three Panthers around his receiver. Pick."
So, while critics question Cutler's leadership skills, and others question his on-field decisions and demeanor, I think a good place to look is at his comments to the media and his post-game press conferences.
Between eye rolls and one-word answers you have a press conference where, after a total collapse to the Chargers, you can hear such unoriginal statements as, "We really can’t stop anybody," or, "We stopped ourselves. They didn't stop us once today."
A press conference where he was asked about the Chargers chances and replied with, “San Diego? No, I don’t think so. I think Indy’ll handle ‘em pretty good."
A press conference where once again he refuses to be gracious in defeat.
Where once again he can't help but throw teammates under the bus.
Where once again he belittles his opponents.
It begs the question, is Jay Cutler a punk?
I don't know. You tell me.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Jay Cutler is no teddy bear
By Rick Reilly
ESPN.com
Jay Cutler
Jay Cutler is never a picture of happiness. Will Chicago fans ever see his other side?
For a man from Santa Claus, Ind., Jay Cutler is one of the least jolly people you've ever met.
If he's not The Most Hated Man in the NFL, he's in the running. His expression is usually that of a man wearing sandpaper underwear. He looks everywhere but into your eyes. It's a tie as to which he enjoys more -- smirking or shrugging.
It's hard to say what interests Cutler, but it's definitely not you.
Once, in his rookie year in Denver, 45 minutes before a game, surefire Hall of Fame safety John Lynch was trying to explain something to Cutler about NFL pass coverage. Except Cutler wasn't looking at Lynch. He was texting.
"Man, I'm trying to talk to you!" Lynch protested.
Didn't help. Cutler was all thumbs, head down. Finally, Lynch slapped the phone out of Cutler's hands, smashing it to the floor.
He listened after that.
Cutler's teammates will defend him, when asked. "It's funny to me how people form an opinion of a guy who've never even met him," says Bears tight end Greg Olsen, a close friend.
One time, Broncos coach Mike Shanahan thought it would be helpful for Cutler and Broncos legend John Elway to have lunch. Let Cutler drink in some of Elway's experience.
The three of them sat down at a Denver steak joint. Elway, polite as ever, tried to impart some wisdom. Except Cutler wasn't looking at Elway. He wasn't looking at Shanahan, either. He was looking at the TV. The whole time. With his baseball cap on backward. All the way through dessert. Elway did not leave impressed.
So when Josh McDaniels, before he had even set his Samsonite down, started railroading Cutler out of town, almost nobody stood up for him.
Cutler was boxed up and shipped to Chicago, where, this Sunday, he will play his first playoff game of any kind since high school, this one at home against the Seattle Seahawks.
It's a huge moment for Cutler, if only because his disdain for making nice means everything rides on his wins and losses.
"In New York, they want to poke you in the eye," says former Bear and sports radio host Tom Waddle. "In L.A., they don't care about you. But in Chicago, they want to love you. They want to make a connection with you. Any kind of connection. But Jay doesn't really care."
Cutler could own Chicago if he wanted. In a city that has had as many good quarterbacks as Omaha has had good surfers, Cutler could have his name on half the billboards and all the jerseys. My God, the kid grew up a Bears fan! But he doesn't even try. He has zero endorsements and doesn't want any. If there is such a thing as a Jay Cutler Fan Club, Cutler is having a membership drive -- to drive them out.
Jay Cutler
If you're a reporter looking for a helpful answer out of Jay Cutler, good luck.
Example from Wednesday's 15-minute news conference, the only time he speaks publicly the entire workweek:
Reporter #1: So, did you enjoy the week off?
Cutler: Yeah, it's nice to kick back and watch the games.
Reporter #2: Wait. Last week, you said you never watch the games.
Cutler (disgusted): I said you could watch the games. I didn't say I watched the games. You've got to listen.
Cutler is the kind of guy you just want to pick up and throw into a swimming pool, which is exactly what Peyton Manning and two linemen did one year at the Pro Bowl.
"He's an arrogant little punk," former Broncos radio color man, Scott Hastings, once said on a national show. "He's a little bitch."
Harsh? Yes. Heard before? Yes.
"I used to hear this kind of stuff a lot," says Marty Garafalo, a freelance publicist who handled Cutler in Denver. "Elway was always trying to give you the time of day, and Jay was always seeing which door he could get out of quicker. It was a maturity thing."
Cutler's teammates will defend him, when asked. "It's funny to me how people form an opinion of a guy who've never even met him," says Bears tight end Greg Olsen, a close friend.
So what's the truth?
"He is what he is," Olsen says.
Not exactly something for your tombstone.
What he is is an RPG-armed, 27-year-old Vanderbilt product who dates a reality TV star named Kristin Cavallari, battles Type 1 diabetes every day, and doesn't care who understands him and who doesn't. He's a giving person who does things behind the scenes and hates it when he gets found out. A few days before Christmas, he and Cavallari brought presents for an entire ward of sick hospital kids. A reporter for the Sun-Times got wind of it and asked him about it. Cutler refused to discuss it.
He's a battler who's done amazingly well considering the swinging saloon-door offensive line he has to play behind. The man has been sacked more times this season (52) than in his three seasons in Denver combined (51). Yet he never complains.
"He's as sharp an individual as I've ever been around," says Bears offensive coordinator Mike Martz.
So why is Cutler as popular as gout?
Is it because he never makes eye contact?
Is it his seeming inability to answer a question without using "y'know"? (He once used it 57 times in a five-minute interview with the NFL Network.)
Is it his penchant for making things difficult?
Reporter (after a game): What happened on that first interception, Jay?
Cutler: I threw the ball.
Reporter: Right, but what did you see developing there? Take us through it.
Cutler (archly): It seemed like a good place to throw the ball.
Then there was this:
Reporter: When you were a kid, which quarterback did you look up to?
Cutler: Nobody.
Reporter: Nobody? You didn't look up to anybody?
Cutler: No.
If he's lying, it makes him a miscreant. If he's telling the truth, it makes him a miscreant.
"Deep, deep down, I think he's a really good guy," Waddle says.
Maybe. But why do we have to look that deep?Comment
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LMAO did you really just link a Bleacher Report article and then THE Rick Reilly article?
It's bad enough you linked a bleacher report article but to follow it up with a Rick Reilly one is fucking hysterical.Comment
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^too fucking true...
bleacher report is the wikipedia of the sports media world, and rick reilly is just a fucking douchebag...Comment
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