Did Jay Cutler quit on his team??? vol. NFL Players Think So

[maxelite]

You mix Jay Cutler's relationship with the media + his poor play up to that point in the game + the score of the game

People are going to pile up on the guy, which is clearly unfair.

 

[maxelite]

You mix Jay Cutler's relationship with the media + his poor play up to that point in the game + the score of the game

People are going to pile up on the guy, which is clearly unfair.

 

[N41D]

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

btw, Where was MJD last season the last 2 games when the Jags needed to make the playoffs?

yea, hurt on the bench, inactive...  throwing stones while living in a glass house...

 you tell em Mo Jones!!!

  Get on Twitter and air that dude out.

  

 

[N41D]

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

btw, Where was MJD last season the last 2 games when the Jags needed to make the playoffs?

yea, hurt on the bench, inactive...  throwing stones while living in a glass house...

 you tell em Mo Jones!!!

  Get on Twitter and air that dude out.

  

 

[pmatic]

Originally Posted by PMatic

I made fun of Cutler plenty today but I'll wait for official reports to say he quit on the team.

I apologize for making fun of you Jay.

 

[pmatic]

Originally Posted by PMatic

I made fun of Cutler plenty today but I'll wait for official reports to say he quit on the team.

I apologize for making fun of you Jay.

 

[pmatic]

Originally Posted by Nowitness41Dirk

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

btw, Where was MJD last season the last 2 games when the Jags needed to make the playoffs?

yea, hurt on the bench, inactive...  throwing stones while living in a glass house...

 you tell em Mo Jones!!!

  Get on Twitter and air that dude out.

  

No need, Chris Harris already put MJD in his place.

 

[pmatic]

Originally Posted by Nowitness41Dirk

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

btw, Where was MJD last season the last 2 games when the Jags needed to make the playoffs?

yea, hurt on the bench, inactive...  throwing stones while living in a glass house...

 you tell em Mo Jones!!!

  Get on Twitter and air that dude out.

  

No need, Chris Harris already put MJD in his place.

 

[sundoobie]

Originally Posted by drop knee 101

Originally Posted by TheRealMcCoy12

people are DUMB to think that a professional athlete quit....by nature, these are the most competitive humans on the planet....what makes you think they would just quit????...

situations get the best of people sometimes

 

[sundoobie]

Originally Posted by drop knee 101

Originally Posted by TheRealMcCoy12

people are DUMB to think that a professional athlete quit....by nature, these are the most competitive humans on the planet....what makes you think they would just quit????...

situations get the best of people sometimes

 

[fear the ibis]

Originally Posted by mr2cool80

SportsCenter[color= rgb(51, 51, 51)]#Bears [/color]QB Jay Cutler has torn MCL in left knee2 minutes ago via web

Every injury is different.....but I've seen a lot of players play with a torn MCL in games far less important than the NFC championship...at positions that require much more mobility and cutting than QB.

 

[fear the ibis]

Originally Posted by mr2cool80

SportsCenter[color= rgb(51, 51, 51)]#Bears [/color]QB Jay Cutler has torn MCL in left knee2 minutes ago via web

Every injury is different.....but I've seen a lot of players play with a torn MCL in games far less important than the NFC championship...at positions that require much more mobility and cutting than QB.

 

[drop knee 101]

Originally Posted by TheRealMcCoy12

^ thats a superstar player playing for the most dysfunctional franchise maybe in all of pro sports......you cannot possibly compare the two....

why cant i?  is he not a professional?  what does moss being a superstar have anything to do with the next guy?  so hes got superior skills that hes allowed to act the way he does?

 plus i pointed out that situations can get the best of anyone

 

[drop knee 101]

Originally Posted by TheRealMcCoy12

^ thats a superstar player playing for the most dysfunctional franchise maybe in all of pro sports......you cannot possibly compare the two....

why cant i?  is he not a professional?  what does moss being a superstar have anything to do with the next guy?  so hes got superior skills that hes allowed to act the way he does?

 plus i pointed out that situations can get the best of anyone

 

[fear the ibis]

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

you're confusing throwing picks and critiquing Cutlers "game" for his toughness...

because if anything about Cutler you cant harp on, its his toughness.

He plays with Diabetes for one, takes sacks like nothing and keeps going. and isnt gun shy like David Carr was after him taking all those sacks.

that @$%+ u typed makes Zero sense, because throwing Picks has nothing to do with him picking himself f off the turf and being out there every other game/series/play prior to this injury

  Kev . exactly.
People ssee what they want to see, and the only reason this is so easily talked about is because ppl already dislike Cutler for his mistakes on the field and for the fact he doesnt kiss the media's !%*.

He may be tough. But there's one thing he isn't for damn sure...a leader.


A QB with no leadership....worthless.

 

[fear the ibis]

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

you're confusing throwing picks and critiquing Cutlers "game" for his toughness...

because if anything about Cutler you cant harp on, its his toughness.

He plays with Diabetes for one, takes sacks like nothing and keeps going. and isnt gun shy like David Carr was after him taking all those sacks.

that @$%+ u typed makes Zero sense, because throwing Picks has nothing to do with him picking himself f off the turf and being out there every other game/series/play prior to this injury

  Kev . exactly.
People ssee what they want to see, and the only reason this is so easily talked about is because ppl already dislike Cutler for his mistakes on the field and for the fact he doesnt kiss the media's !%*.

He may be tough. But there's one thing he isn't for damn sure...a leader.


A QB with no leadership....worthless.

 

[jerome in the house]

Originally Posted by mr2cool80

SportsCenter[color= rgb(51, 51, 51)]#Bears [/color]QB Jay Cutler has torn MCL in left knee2 minutes ago via web

....and

 

[jerome in the house]

Originally Posted by mr2cool80

SportsCenter[color= rgb(51, 51, 51)]#Bears [/color]QB Jay Cutler has torn MCL in left knee2 minutes ago via web

....and

 

[MVP]

People just piling on Jay looking stupid right now.

As for demeanor, some people just aren't rah rah guys, no matter what the situation, they don't wear the emotions on their sleeve. Jay's been like that since Vandy when he was getting killed there but somehow still won offensive player of the year in his senior season. He hasn't changed and I doubt that this "incident" and perception by all these players sitting at home or "expert analysts" just talking mad %%!+ when they have no idea what's going on is going to change that.

 

[MVP]

People just piling on Jay looking stupid right now.

As for demeanor, some people just aren't rah rah guys, no matter what the situation, they don't wear the emotions on their sleeve. Jay's been like that since Vandy when he was getting killed there but somehow still won offensive player of the year in his senior season. He hasn't changed and I doubt that this "incident" and perception by all these players sitting at home or "expert analysts" just talking mad %%!+ when they have no idea what's going on is going to change that.

 

[True Blues]

Originally Posted by Ace Rawstein


LeBatardShow Dan LeBatard Show 

Is Cutler's dopey whiteness an issue? The loudest critics (MJD, Dockett, etc) are black. His loudest defenders (Urlacher, Kreutz) aren't.

50 minutes ago

LeBatardShow Dan LeBatard Show 

the face, pout, diabetes, pale skin color -- does it help frame 'not tough enough?" Or is it just that he wasn't taken off on stretcher?

LeBatardShow Dan LeBatard Show 

same circumstances: mcnair, vick, garrard, mcnabb don't get hit with that, right? does vince young? cunningham? what black qb?

That's a classic LeBatard angle. He's an imbecile.

Here's Whitlock's take:

[h1]Why Cutler burns us up[/h1]Updated Jan 24, 2011 11:54 AM ET

Maybe now the LeBron James sycophants will quit playing the race card.

Maybe now they’ll accept the visceral, instantaneous and emotional rejection of their King in the aftermath of The Decision was primarily a confluence of factors that had little to do with race.


Social media, our cultural, unhealthy obsession with sports and the thin line between our love and hate for spoiled, clueless millionaire athletes led to the widespread loathing of LeBron.

The same thing happened to Jay Cutler on Sunday.

In the biggest game of his career, shortly after playing 30 minutes of awful football, Cutler laid down on the Bears and the city of Chicago. Hiding behind a knee injury, he tapped out in much the same way LeBron James tapped out with an elbow injury against the Celtics during last year’s playoffs.

I’m sorry. I don’t need an MRI to confirm King Cutler quit.

FOX cameras provided all the evidence I need.

Cutler suffered a knee injury, not a head injury. The only reason Cutler spent the second half of the NFC Championship bundled up on the Chicago sideline looking like an aloof, uninvolved punter was because he mentally checked out.

You do remember King James staring off into space as Mike Brown tried to coach the Cavs late in the Celtics series?

To their credit -- and perhaps their cowardice -- Cavaliers fans didn’t turn on their King until he hosted a rub-their-noses-in-it TV special celebrating his betrayal of his home-state team.

Imagine the reaction in Chicago if Cutler makes the slightest public-relations slip between now and when Bears’ doctors reveal Cutler may never walk again. You think LeBron is despised? Let the wrong syllable come out of Cutler’s mouth and President Obama won’t be able to rehabilitate Cutler’s reputation.

Despite all their strong words defending Cutler, I bet you couldn’t pay Brian Urlacher and Lovie Smith to start Cutler’s car for the next month. Cutler is the new Steve Bartman, the interfering Cubs fan.

For the record, Cutler is white and so are the overwhelming majority of Bears fans.

In this era of 24-hour news, Internet anonymity and blogging, public sentiment can turn vicious rather quickly regardless of your race.

Within minutes of the conclusion of Green Bay’s 21-14 victory, a picture of Chicago fans burning a Cutler jersey showed up on my Twitter feed. Fans started pointing out that Tom Brady played all season needing surgery on his foot, Willis Reed limped through Game 7 of the NBA Finals with a torn muscle in his thigh, Ronnie Lott cut off a piece of his finger to play, etc.

Fans were irate.

Worse was the reaction of Cutler’s NFL peers. Current and former players trashed Cutler on Twitter and on TV.

The backlash against Cutler overshadowed the Packers’ victory and drove discussion all Monday.

Football is the ultimate gladiator sport. It’s a PED sport. Right or wrong, the culture dictates that you inject yourself with whatever is necessary to play. You gut it out on a bad knee, hope that you do no further damage and deal with the consequences the next day and for the rest of your life.


My right knee hurts as I’m writing this. I played my last season at Ball State with a torn ACL. My 160-pound roommate played most of the season with a serious neck injury. Yeah, we were naive, stupid and probably exploited.

I’d do it again. And knowing what I know now, I’d probably come back and play my fifth year. If they gave me a $50 million contract and Todd Collins was my backup, you’d have to fight me to get me off the field in the NFC Championship.

Deion Sanders roasted Cutler on the NFL Network. Michael Irvin sang in Deion’s choir.

Cutler’s defenders miss the point. No one is really questioning Cutler’s toughness. We know he took a beating this season behind a leaky offensive line.

We’re questioning Cutler’s love of the game. A quarterback, a leader, has to love the game.

On Sunday, Cutler carried himself like someone who plays football primarily because he was born with the gift and the job pays well. It turned us off. It upset us.

No matter your football resume -- high school hero, college scrub, retired Super Bowl champion -- if you love the game, you would’ve given anything to be in Cutler’s shoes on Sunday. And you believe you would’ve handled the situation differently.

It’s that exact same belief -- not race -- that drove you to loathe LeBron.

 

[True Blues]

Originally Posted by Ace Rawstein


LeBatardShow Dan LeBatard Show 

Is Cutler's dopey whiteness an issue? The loudest critics (MJD, Dockett, etc) are black. His loudest defenders (Urlacher, Kreutz) aren't.

50 minutes ago

LeBatardShow Dan LeBatard Show 

the face, pout, diabetes, pale skin color -- does it help frame 'not tough enough?" Or is it just that he wasn't taken off on stretcher?

LeBatardShow Dan LeBatard Show 

same circumstances: mcnair, vick, garrard, mcnabb don't get hit with that, right? does vince young? cunningham? what black qb?

That's a classic LeBatard angle. He's an imbecile.

Here's Whitlock's take:

[h1]Why Cutler burns us up[/h1]Updated Jan 24, 2011 11:54 AM ET

Maybe now the LeBron James sycophants will quit playing the race card.

Maybe now they’ll accept the visceral, instantaneous and emotional rejection of their King in the aftermath of The Decision was primarily a confluence of factors that had little to do with race.


Social media, our cultural, unhealthy obsession with sports and the thin line between our love and hate for spoiled, clueless millionaire athletes led to the widespread loathing of LeBron.

The same thing happened to Jay Cutler on Sunday.

In the biggest game of his career, shortly after playing 30 minutes of awful football, Cutler laid down on the Bears and the city of Chicago. Hiding behind a knee injury, he tapped out in much the same way LeBron James tapped out with an elbow injury against the Celtics during last year’s playoffs.

I’m sorry. I don’t need an MRI to confirm King Cutler quit.

FOX cameras provided all the evidence I need.

Cutler suffered a knee injury, not a head injury. The only reason Cutler spent the second half of the NFC Championship bundled up on the Chicago sideline looking like an aloof, uninvolved punter was because he mentally checked out.

You do remember King James staring off into space as Mike Brown tried to coach the Cavs late in the Celtics series?

To their credit -- and perhaps their cowardice -- Cavaliers fans didn’t turn on their King until he hosted a rub-their-noses-in-it TV special celebrating his betrayal of his home-state team.

Imagine the reaction in Chicago if Cutler makes the slightest public-relations slip between now and when Bears’ doctors reveal Cutler may never walk again. You think LeBron is despised? Let the wrong syllable come out of Cutler’s mouth and President Obama won’t be able to rehabilitate Cutler’s reputation.

Despite all their strong words defending Cutler, I bet you couldn’t pay Brian Urlacher and Lovie Smith to start Cutler’s car for the next month. Cutler is the new Steve Bartman, the interfering Cubs fan.

For the record, Cutler is white and so are the overwhelming majority of Bears fans.

In this era of 24-hour news, Internet anonymity and blogging, public sentiment can turn vicious rather quickly regardless of your race.

Within minutes of the conclusion of Green Bay’s 21-14 victory, a picture of Chicago fans burning a Cutler jersey showed up on my Twitter feed. Fans started pointing out that Tom Brady played all season needing surgery on his foot, Willis Reed limped through Game 7 of the NBA Finals with a torn muscle in his thigh, Ronnie Lott cut off a piece of his finger to play, etc.

Fans were irate.

Worse was the reaction of Cutler’s NFL peers. Current and former players trashed Cutler on Twitter and on TV.

The backlash against Cutler overshadowed the Packers’ victory and drove discussion all Monday.

Football is the ultimate gladiator sport. It’s a PED sport. Right or wrong, the culture dictates that you inject yourself with whatever is necessary to play. You gut it out on a bad knee, hope that you do no further damage and deal with the consequences the next day and for the rest of your life.


My right knee hurts as I’m writing this. I played my last season at Ball State with a torn ACL. My 160-pound roommate played most of the season with a serious neck injury. Yeah, we were naive, stupid and probably exploited.

I’d do it again. And knowing what I know now, I’d probably come back and play my fifth year. If they gave me a $50 million contract and Todd Collins was my backup, you’d have to fight me to get me off the field in the NFC Championship.

Deion Sanders roasted Cutler on the NFL Network. Michael Irvin sang in Deion’s choir.

Cutler’s defenders miss the point. No one is really questioning Cutler’s toughness. We know he took a beating this season behind a leaky offensive line.

We’re questioning Cutler’s love of the game. A quarterback, a leader, has to love the game.

On Sunday, Cutler carried himself like someone who plays football primarily because he was born with the gift and the job pays well. It turned us off. It upset us.

No matter your football resume -- high school hero, college scrub, retired Super Bowl champion -- if you love the game, you would’ve given anything to be in Cutler’s shoes on Sunday. And you believe you would’ve handled the situation differently.

It’s that exact same belief -- not race -- that drove you to loathe LeBron.

 

[DeadsetAce]

Originally Posted by True Blues

Cutler’s defenders miss the point. No one is really questioning Cutler’s toughness. We know he took a beating this season behind a leaky offensive line.

We’re questioning Cutler’s love of the game. A quarterback, a leader, has to love the game.

this

 

[gregzzy23]

I turned on SC just now and I hear them talking about people claiming Jay quit...and I'm sitting here thinking 'who are these people?' and now I see on the first page what they're referring to. I can't believe so many players, not just reporters are trying to make these claims without having any information on the matter WHATSOEVER. Like, thats plain stupid. All of them should eat their words now that reports he has a torn MCL are out..

 

[gregzzy23]

I turned on SC just now and I hear them talking about people claiming Jay quit...and I'm sitting here thinking 'who are these people?' and now I see on the first page what they're referring to. I can't believe so many players, not just reporters are trying to make these claims without having any information on the matter WHATSOEVER. Like, thats plain stupid. All of them should eat their words now that reports he has a torn MCL are out..