Originally Posted by
SparJMU
BigTenSports, everything you are saying about Cutler's ability is simply your opinion, and everyone else is entitled to their opinion. I don't think statistics should be relied upon constantly, but I think it is a very telling piece of information that Cutler has never finished a season with a rating above 88. I don't watch the Bears every single week, but I have seen him enough to make up my mind, and it appears that you have done the same, while ignoring everything I said about Cutler's leadership and his impression on his teammates. Team chemistry and leadership go a long way if you haven't figured that out by now. Sure, teammates will stick up for him to the media because it is their job to do so, but it's the stuff you hear about behind closed doors that tells the true story.
'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."
"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 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."