Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Jay Cutler

This is totally my opinion and everything I say is my opinion.
Ok, Jay Cutler was mentioned in a trade that did not happen and he stressed his desire to be traded after that point. His new head coach had a meeting with him and after the meeting Culter's agent publicly said that the meeting went over poorly and that Cutler wanted a trade. After a few weeks of the coach, owner, and others trying to contact Cutler without response (according to ESPN) the team (Denver Broncos) have decided that they WILL trade Cutler.
The trade in question was for Matt Cassel. The same Matt Cassel that the NEW HEAD COACH developed in New England and coached. It's not like he was almost traded for nothing, Josh McDaniels is more familiar with Cassel then he is with Cutler which warrants a look at the trade.
That is the basic view but now I have the opinionated part... Jay Culter put up great numbers last year 4526 passing yards, 25 passing TD's, and 18 Interceptions. Off of those numbers you would be like wow, why would Denver ever want to trade a QB that puts up those numbers. Well, I didn't mention he is 17-20 as a starter. 17-20!!! Not even .500. His best season is .500! Not that he has a poor supporting cast but his best season is 8-8 which was last season. He put up 4526 with basically two 1000+ yard receivers. Brandon Marshall had 1265 receiving yards in 15 games and Eddie Royal (most receiving yards for a rookie) had 980 in 15 games. Now factor in the fact that Denver had NO running game last season because they had something like 7 running backs on the Injured Reserve list is ridiculous. And he did throw 18 Interceptions which isn't very good either.
So he is upset, but he has nothing but one good season. He cries and won't return phone calls when he gets upset and he still hasn't managed to get his team to the playoffs let alone win a playoff game. I think he needs to suck it up, return a phone call, and realize that they had a right to LOOK at a trade and they didn't even make a trade. He would get a better receiving core anywhere else and Denver just made so many moves in the offseason to get a better team around Cutler. Take you millions of dollars and suck it up, you led your team to something like a 1-3 record down the stretch, that doesn't warrant a superstar.

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