Has Jay Cutler quit?

if cutler was mailing it in, why would he play versus Minn?

To tease us with a "Good Jay" performance before crushing our hopes with a "Bad Jay" appearance with the lowly Tampa Bay Bucs the next week.  The guy is the master at killing us fans with the emotional roller-coaster ride each year.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em...

Jay hasn't quit but he's finally reached the point of standing up to his critics and telling them to either prove their rumors are true or STFU.  But this is yet another hack job slanted to fit the writers interpretation and even the term "lashes" is headline hyperbole.

Cutler doesn't lash out angrily and verbally and he never had in his entire career.  He may shrug and show some impatience with a stupid question or in this case with the contention that was being suggested but an angry response.  Nope, that's not him.

Jay Cutler lashes back at criticism from teammates
Originally posted on Sportsnaut | By Vincent Frank | Last updated 11/17/16

The relationship between Cutler and the Bears continues to deteriorate. Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports

This could get really ugly before the season is over. Heck, it already seems to be pretty darn ugly at this point in what has been a disastrous campaign for the last-place Chicago Bears.

In his own words, Bears quarterback Jay Cutler had previously indicated that head coach John Fox has no other option but to start him. In reality, he’s not wrong here. That became a reality once Brian Hoyer went down with a season-ending injury and was replaced by someone masquerading as a quarterback in the form of Matt Barkley.

At least initially, Cutler was pretty good in his new role after returning from a season-long thumb injury. He completed 20-of-31 passes for 251 yards with a touchdown and zero picks in a Week 9 win over the Minnesota Vikings.

Unfortunately, the enigmatic quarterback followed that up with a horrendous overall showing last week. He turned the ball over four times, including this pick-six, in a blowout loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Following that game, unnamed members of the Bears indicated to Bleacher Report’s Mike Freeman that Cutler had lost the locker room and that his preparation for the game was “truly embarrassing.”

In true Cutler-like fashion, he decided to lash out against this report (and presumably his teammates) on Thursday. When responding to the criticism, the embattled quarterback had this to say.

This is what this doofus calls "lashing out".  LMAO  He's never been around me when I've reached my point of no return.  It can get Biblical in intensity.

“Unnamed source, I’m guessing?” Cutler said, via the Chicago Sun-Times . “The source could be a lot of people. It could be a made-up source. It could actually be guys in there. If people start putting names on it, we can have a discussion about it.”

How else should he have answered this?  I'd have said the same thing.  Don't bring me stuff like this unless you actually want to name names and if you don't then I have to doubt it happened and it was simply made up to create a story.  Especially when the source of those rumors is also saying the same about AJ.

He then went on to complain about the way he was treated following the win against Minnesota in comparison to last week’s loss.

“The game before it was the opposite end of the spectrum,” Cutler noted.

Again, the same thing.  You have a good game you're a hero and after a bad game you're a goat.  Every QB in the NFL gets the same treatment unless you happen to be named Brady or Rodgers.  It's a factual response to a question and nothing more.

He’s the quarterback. He turned the ball over four times. Of course, he’s going to get criticism. Who wouldn’t? Cutler himself acknowledges this.

“Whenever you lose we all know what this position entails and when you have a performance like that as a quarterback, you’re going to get some of that stuff.”

So like I said.  What else is he supposed to say? Doesn't sound much like lashing out to me.  It sounds more like a polite answer to a question.

But then why the caveat? See. This seems to be the issue that’s been surrounding Cutler for the vast majority of his career.

What caveat?  He answered the question the only way it could be answered, with fact.

It’s also just a continuation of what seems to be the process of an ugly marriage ending in divorce between Cutler and his Bears. It’s inevitable at this point that the organization is going to move on from Cutler following the 2016 season. And in reality, Cutler himself wouldn’t have much of an issue with this.

Now that makes more sense to me than anything because at age 34 Jay can still win a lot of football games for some team whose willing to put the effort into surrounding him with a decent team and good coaching and play calling.  As long as we keep doing stuff the way we do here that will never happen.

However, the two sides have to find a way to work through this in order show some sort of professionalism between now and the end of the season. They need each other right now, no matter if neither one wants to admit it.

Not really.  Jay should tell John Fox to go **** himself too but he won't.  He'll play to win and for his teammates and won't quit because that's the way he's built.  But I don't think he'll shed on tear for himself if he's playing elsewhere.  If there are any tears they'll be for his former teammates if John Fox is still coaching the Bears next year.

Eventually it's gonna happen.  We all know that.

What even more ridiculous are all the fans and media who finally admitted that we had no chance of winning much with Hoyer and that Cutler gave us the best chance of winning.  One bad game and now Cutler has to go, and now, and well then just go ahead and sign Hoyer and we'll get by with him until this mythical imaginary QB hero we're gonna pluck from the 2017 draft is ready to start and win a SB in his rookie year as a starter.  LOLOL

It's like a Schizophrenics Convention some weeks.