NFL Network was posting twitters.
Derrick Brooks tweeted, "HEY there is no medicine for a guy with no guts and heart, "have to be crawling and cant get up to come off field", and added that Tampa Bay QB Josh Freeman wouldn't come out of a game with such an injury. "MEDS ARE AVAILABLE."
Mark Schlereth tweeted, “As a guy how had 20 knee surgeries you’d have to drag me out on a stretcher to Leave a championship game!”
Darnell Dockett tweeted, "I never questioned Cutler injury! But I know in a NFC championship game and I'm the QB? I'm gonna deal with the pain or whatever to win!" "If I'm on chicago team jay cutler has to wait till me and the team shower get dressed and leave before he comes in the locker room!"
Gerald Alexander tweeted, "I've never played in a playoff game. This guy was one game away and he quit! That's BS!""If Jay would have collapsed in a dropback after he tried to go in it would be so much more respectful to the game".
Maurice Jones Drew tweeted, "Hey I think the urban meyer rule is effect right now... When the going gets tough........QUIT.." "All I'm saying is that he can finish the game on a hurt knee... I played the whole season on one..."
Kirk Morrison tweeted, "If my knee was hurt or acl/mcl/pcl sprain, I would not be standing up on the sideline"
Anthony Armstrong tweeted, "Knee-gate in Chicago"
Lance Moore tweeted, "Cutler gave up wouldn't you say?"