Reports of His Demise May Be Greatly Exaggerated............

Sounds like a PR move to pique interest and value on the trade block next year. Cutler needs to play well for his and the Bears future.

Most of my debates about Cutler tend to focus on the quantitative aspects of his game and his career.  It's usually his numbers and his stats.  I posted this because for once it focuses mainly on the qualitative aspects of Jay not only as the Bears QB but as a whole person and leader of his team. 

One reason I tend be so tenacious in my defense of him at times is that don't believe many fans truly understand the guy because of how the media has often depicted him both on and off the field and in almost all cases they are way off base and so are those who only believe in what others say of how they judge him.

I pointed this out in a repost to seqq where he posted a conversation about Cutler by Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe.  Seqq agree with Bayless about Cutler's demeanor which I believe most everyone gets wrong.  It's easy to see how Bayless would because he's an arrogant idiot who knows zip about the game but so much of the rest has simply been piling on based on what actually began being said about him in Denver ago and it went from there. From that point on the media had him labeled and it was damned if you do and damned if you don't.

One way to illustrate my point in to suggest anyone who'd like to debate this first go to the Bears official website and watch Cutler post game presser.  He'd just won a big game and with his team floundering as his career with the Bears in question it may have been one of the most important wins of his career right.  He should be ecstatic, smiling, and laughing and joshing with the media right?  Go watch it and then debate me because it was nothing like that at all.

He was every calm and level and very professional giving most of the credit to his teammates and talking about it more like it was a successful business meeting on a new product release than one of the bigger wins of his career.   He talked about motivating his team and how he did that and when asked where he drew his own from he said it was very personal.  He was very humble throughout the whole interview and whatever ego he does have he seems to channel into his play and not into a performance in front of the cameras.  His teammates talk him up far more than he ever will himself.

I dunno.  Maybe the media expects a more flamboyant self promoter from him but they won't get it and maybe that bothers some so they report incorrectly that he lacks charisma and leadership skills which is the polar opposite of what his teammates and coaches say.  Or at least those teammates who still play for him so I guess we can exclude BMarsh and the Mouth Brothers Marty and Michael.  But they only level their criticism from a distance and from a personality standpoint they are headline and mic grabbers who want themselves to be the center of attention.  Jay Cutler would rather not be the center of attention.

I've also pointed how the guy is diabetic and how that illness and it's symptoms can have an effect on energy and mood because I have pre-diabetic symptoms and a mood disorder and I know how it can affect mine at times.  There are times when you have to conserve what little energy you have just for the task at hand and you don't waste any on "the show".  You just do what you can to get the job done.  I think that's part of it with Cutler as well and it's just part of who he is as a person.  He has no "football persona" so what you see is what he's like both on an off the field.

Anyway, from now on I would take any of those articles you may read that deal with his personality and how he may be perceived negatively in the locker room and toss 'em.  They aren't accurate or true and this story and the comments made by his teammates and coaches will back that up.  This and that post game presser are a much more accurate depiction of who Jay Cutler is and he shows no lack of leadership in the locker room, under center, or in a post game presser.  Those who can't see that simply don't want to.

Really?  Well then how much sense does it make to have the most important position be;

40 - Tom Brady.

38 - Drew Brees

37 - Carson Palmer

36 - Eli Manning

35 - Philip Rivers

35 - Ben Roethlisberger

34 - Aaron Rodgers (same age as Cutler)

34 - Ryan Fitzpatrick

33 - Matt Ryan

33 - Alex Smith

32 - Joe Flacco


More than 35% of the starting QBs in the NFL are 32 years old or older in 2017 and every team in the NFL is in some state of rebuilding or restocking on the fly.  That's just one more piece of media disseminated junk that QBs and RBs are over the hill after 30.  Where are all the articles on these guys saying their teams need to move on from them?  Rodgers stats have been falling the last two years.  Show me an article from the Green Bay Press-Gazette that say oh, time to move on.  You believe what you choose to believe.

Quite a few QBs haven't won a SB until they were in their 30s. 

I haven't seen any lack of mobility or any decline in arm strength out of Cutler or Rodger.  Have you?  And who says you can't bring in a younger QB to learn the offense under Cutler just like GB did with Rodgers did under Favre.

And what in the hell would a writer from the SunTimes have to do with boosting Cutler's trade value anyway?  Where's his motivation for that when the entire slant of his article is based on Cutler not being traded?  So you get my Golden Bozo Award for lack or reading comprehension just like belli.

"Those who can't see that simply don't want to."

True. At least in regard to the first sentence of my post.