Crybaby Cutler? Or over the line?

You would need to cut off my foot and possibly my throwing shoulder to keep me out of the game.

I feel like until I’ve had my MCL torn, I shouldn’t make any assumptions. Cutler hasn’t come out and said just how much pain he was in, nor should he. That’s not even relevant anymore. But I’ve never effed up my knee, and certainly haven’t played tackle football with a title berth on the line while injured either. So…yeah. I voted that him playing would have done more harm than good. Especially since his stats up to the point he got taken out on Sunday were dismal.

It shows a lot that other NFL players were calling him out. To have media and former players say something is one thing, but the fact that other players who know what it’s like now show that he maybe should have toughed it out. I mean Phillip Rivers played in the AFC CG with a torn ACL, a much more serious injury. Although I’ve always thought of Jay Cutler as a crybaby and my Viking Vision may be effecting my opinion.

A grade II tear is nothing to shake a stick at, but he certainly did not help himself at all by pacing the sidelines with a “oh well” look on his face.

He didn’t seem concerned at all that he was not on the field, and didn’t seem to be in any pain while walking on the sidelines. The proper reaction would have been to bitch, piss and moan and make it visibly obvious how furious he was that the coach was not letting him play another down.

But he just sat there and pouted, which is not in line with Chicago’s attitude and he lost the fanbase by not showing any fire.

Remember when Stafford forced his way back into the game after the shoulder separation to throw the winning TD? That was not even a playoff game but it made every single fan out there a believer that he would give his life to win a football game for that team.

That is what makes a player legendary, not just his ability to perform but his passion and love for the game.

I just don’t see that out of Cutler. Perhaps he does love the game, but he needs to learn how to show it to his fans, otherwise he is a lost cause.

Oh, and what in god’s name was Lovie Smith thinking by bringing Todd Collins into that game? And why ruin Hanie’s momentum by calling a reverse on a 3rd and 3? He was doing just fine without gimmick plays.

he always looks so damn dejected, hurt or not. I am surprised that if there is such animosity toward him amongst his peers, which, I am sure has to sting, that there has not been a bounty on him before this.
My gut tells me he could’ve taped the knee up at halftime and continued. He is not a running QB even at 100%. I am puzzled by the statement that he could not plant his throwing foot. Correct me if I am wrong, but, being right handed as he is, his right foot is his plant foot, not the left, which was injured. That is, assuming he is using proper mechanics, which he often does not.

But anyone who watched that game probably felt Jay Cutler was a hell of a QB for standing in and taking that pounding.

The latest news is that Cutler went out for dinner with his girlfriend the night of the Packers loss—to a two-story restaurant, no less—and took the stairs.

Now, on one hand, you’re just giving people a prompt to keep bashing you by somehow manning up and walking up a couple flights of stairs. On the other hand, you take an elevator and people think it’s phoney; that may you are milking the severity of the sprain to give fans what they want. Which, oddly, is a quarterback who is truly, genuinely hurt. Isn’t funny how Cutler actually being truly hurt—a big fat torn MCL—would remedy this entire situation for Bears fans?

I read somewhere that when you have diabetes, you can’t recieve cortisone shots. Jay Cutler has diabetes. And 99% of the time, when an athlete ‘guts it out’, it’s because they recieved a cortisone shot in the locker room at some point. Brett Favre was no exception to this by any means.

I honestly think that is a major, major point to all this. In reality, it destroys every comparison- even though comparisons, as have been pointed out, are dumb to begin with because every human’s body, and the injuries recieved, are unique. But I think if this was pointed out more, people would begin to realize why Drew Brees could play 6 games with the same injury that Cutler couldn’t play over one drive with.

think about how crappy his line has been all year long he took what NINE sacks in one game or something rediculous like that.. He’s been pummeled by Jared Allen, K Will, That steroid freak in GB I mean the man has taken some hits. That line has more holes in it that a hillbillies smile.

He knew it, we all saw it, and he tried to play through it for at least a quarter before finally taking himself out. He did the right thing and should be commended instead of vilified. That rookie/kid who came in late almost pulled it out, and I doubt they would have had that chance had Cutler remained in the game.