Cutler Tweets

We can bash the guy all we want, but all the tweets were totally uncalled for and unprofessional IMO.

No one knew the severity of the injury and just jumped to conclusions. Could he have played? Yes... but not many would in those circumstances.

 

^^ I agree. Talk about the media making things out of nothing!!

I'm not a fan of Cutler. I think he's overrated and waaay too y for his own good but nobody deserves to be talked about like that.

What has our media become? Is ESPN following suit of our news stations? Report football, not wive's tales.

How much of the VY drama was fabricated? Can we now agree that the media isn't fact??

 

When they report eye-witness accounts it's news/fact. When they report twitter feeds, AKA opinions, it's not fact. Did anyone say otherwise?

I've never understood why they report twitter feeds anyway...

 

Eyewitnesses with no video or photographs.

Eyewitnesses deemed Cutler to be faking the injury. Exact same thing. Not saying both couldn't be true...just saying take everything with a grain of salt until there's physical evidence.

 

These eye-witnesses weren't really eye witnesses. Wouldn't you agree that one of his teammates saying he was faking the injury is different than someone watching on tv? The person watching on tv doesn't get to see Cutler but for 2 seconds at a time, whenever the producers in the truck need to fill air-time.

 

Which teammate said he was faking the injury? I missed that

 

My opinion on the Cutler situation:

First off I have to state that this is a totally biased opinion. I am a huge Vanderbilt fan (if the ball us round we are sound), I had been since a was a little kid. Around 7th grade is when i first started getting into sports and the biggest reason of why is Jay Cutler. As a Vandy fan I never paid attention to college football when I was younger. I had only been to one game prior to the Cutler era. I went my first Vandy game in years when I was 12 years-old, it was Vandy vs Ole Miss and ever since I've become obsessed with Vanderbilt everything. I remember listening to Jay and Earl light in up in Fayetteville, Knoxville, Winston-Salem and witness a near comeback from a 30-3 deficit against UK with 5 TD passes to Earl Bennett. Still Vandy only won 5 games but I remember all of those exciting finishes. The excitement carried into other sports for me like men's basketball and baseball. I started following the Titans closer and soon became a huge predators fans. So maybe I'm not on this board if Jay Cutler never played at Vandy. Now I want to become a sports journalist, I've already been accepted into two great journalism schools and plan to major in sports broadcast.

Dating back to Cutler's high school days he is was tough as they come. He was starting QB and safety. Led the division in passing and interceptions. He had a 26-1 record at Heritage High School as a 3 year starter, including winning the state championship with a 15-0 during his senior year. There is a story from when he was at HHS he was playing through a stomach virus and when he scored the game winning TD he ran out of the stadium Forrest Gump style to find away into the school bathroom to puke.

In his college years at Vandy he ran the option his freshman year and got absolutely crushed. In Cutler's freshman year at Vanderbilt, he and a teammate were arrested for vandalizing a campus phone booth. For that, both were suspended for one game, which was the only game Cutler would miss during his Vanderbilt career.What most people didn't (and still don't) know is that it wasn't Cutler who inflicted the property damage; Cutler stayed behind and took the rap from police while his teammate ran to save his own skin. His teammate sat silently as Cutler took the heat from his coaches, fans and the media. Only when Cutler was threatened with dismissal from the football team did he reveal the identity of his teammate. Six months later he was elected team captain, he held that title for the rest of his career as a Commodore. Even though Vandy abandoned the option, Cutler still took is fair share of shots, yet was named SEC offensive player of the year in 2006.

So then he goes to Denver to replace Jake Plummer his rookie season then too only have his head coach fired after the following season. He is then traded to the Bears by a coach who was fired based off of integrity. Cutler is then ostracized by the media and Denver fans. He is repeatedly called a whiner for wanting out of Denver because McDaniels didn't want him.

But now he's in Chicago, a team that has zero shoes to fill at QB, all Cutler has to do is be consistent but the Bears aren't necessarily contenders. His first season in Chicago caused a lot of controversy after Jay threw 26 interceptions and missed the playoffs, again. So once again the expectations were not high in Chicago; their OL is one of the worst in the league, their best WR, Johnny Knox seems to be their worst enemy at times with his lack of size and route running and they have to overcome the Vikings and the Packers in the NFC North to make the playoffs. Jay starts off the season well until he is sacked 9 times against the Giants, the next game, Cutler sits out for the first time in his NFL career. He was sacked 52 times this season, compare that to 11 in 2008. So then what does Jay do? He throws 10 less picks, passes for over 3,000 yards and helps the 4-3 Bears at the bye to an 11-5 record and the #2 seed in the NFC playoffs. Then columnist Rick Reilly writes the ESPN column "Jay Cutler is no Teddy Bear" that rips Jay for not being a good teammate or good person despite him buying a hospital ward of sick kids Christmas gifts and his contributions toward the American Diabetes Association. So then Jay goes on to throw and run for two TDs in the 2nd round against the Seahawks. So finally things are looking good for Jay, until the end of the 2nd quarter after he tries to scamper for a first down but barely gets a yard. Jay continues to play with a bum knee and a bust elbow. He goes back onto the field after halftime and he felt the pain in his knee, the trainers made him sit and the rest is history.

Current and former players, as well as the media were quick to jump on Jay but his teammates had his back. Sure, they are defending their QB but they all had good reasons for him to come out. Bear's safety Chis Harris said today on the Jim Rome show that last week he took himself out of the Seattle after tearing a muscle in his hip even though he could still play because he thought it could hurt the team. Bear's OL Olin Kreutz said, " I knew one of his ligaments probably went. I remember him walking in the huddle, and I saw it shaking like this. I said, 'Ah, man.'" Call it sticking up for your QB because that's what you have to do but it sounds like Jay coming out was for the best. Caleb Hanie also denied today that Cutler didn't help him with the playbook while he was on the sideline after some of the media said otherwise.

Then there is the, "Well, so and so played through this" ok, lets see how that worked out: Brett Favre played on a shattered ankle, seemed to work out great this year. Kerry Collins seemed on top of his game with a broken finger and sprained knee, definitely helped us. Phillip Rivers really looked good last year on the torn ACL, so good that he was yanked after 3 quarters with 2 picks.

So now Jay is a wuss, p*ssy, b*tch, ect...

So why hate Jay, is it because he succeeded at a snobby private school? He wasn't Josh McDaniel's "yes man"? Is it how he carries himself on the sideline? Or is that he doesn't like the media? I think all of those are reasons why people don't like Jay Cutler and him coming out of the game, standing solemnly with a navy hoodie really lit the fuse.

But whatever, I'm a Vandy fan.

 

311 players were placed on IR this year.

I don't like Jay Cutler, and love watching him take a beating, but I think it's unfair and all a bit rediculous for anyone to think they can understand the pain he was likely in.

All players get injured and sit out. Seems a bit ridiculous.

 

None, I was just using that as an example.

 

I don't understand at all why you'd say that then.

ESPN needs to go back to sports reporting and stop becoming a station of drama.