… on Cutler…
LOL, just kidding. It’s just one game.
I wasn’t able to watch the game, I was in a major deployment effort this weekend (probably worked 12 hrs a day or more Sat and Sun), and we didn’t wrap up until the Bears game was over.
What I find really interesting is that when I first checked ESPN on the game recap, they had four or five paragraphs detailing Cutler’s difficulties, including missing snaps from center, throwing into double or triple coverage, having the four interceptions and other things.
Then my computer crashed (as it does so frequently) and when I got back on and went back to that page, all that was gone, replaced with a bland commentary mostly focused on the other team, with only a bare mention of Cutler’s four interceptions.
I strongly suspected a Jay Cutler cult at ESPN, now I am 100% convinced that it’s real. Some editor read that and said “SHIT! That doesn’t fit the narrative!!” I am guessing the reporter who first did the recap is now covering curling or something.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackHeh! I’ve got a friend that lovingly refers to ESPN as “The Four Letters!” I checked their current recap of the game, and it’s not pretty.
“Jay Cutler threw a career-high four interceptions on Sunday. Cutler was at his worst on third down, in which the Bears converted just 4 of 15. He completed almost as many passes to the Packers (2) as his own team (3).”
What they took down must have been pretty scathing…
And Lovie, the master of DUH: “It’s pretty simple what happened tonight,” Smith said. “Any time that you have four turnovers, you’re normally not going to win the football game, especially against a good Packers team.”
And hey, congrats on your Horses on the road! And on our ‘Boys on the road…
Thank God It’s September.
Heh, it sounds like they did another update, probably after people like me laughed at their editorial slant. I haven’t read the latest version, but it sounds like they got some of the critical comments back in. In the original piece there were four or five paragraphs devoted to Cutler’s performance, and none of it was good. Still, he’s had similar games in Denver and bounced back to have great games. I never said Cutler was a total bust, just that he shows all the physical tools, but in game after game he plays like a high school kid.
In the original version, my favorite line was “Of the four interceptions, the worst was the one lobbed carelessly over the middle with no Bear near the ball when it was intercepted by the cornerback” or words to that effect. Yep, sounds like the Cutler I know!
Heh. The talking heads were all over him all this morning, saying what they’ve mostly said all along…”great talent, not so great decision making.”
I did watch the game. It was interesting in many ways.
In the first half, Cutler looked HORRIBLE. But, the “horribleness” was a team effort. Bad snaps, hurried throws caused by him getting hammered as his O-line broke down, receivers not being in the place they were supposed to be when they were supposed to be, receivers simply “giving up” on plays, receivers dropping balls they should have caught, and Cutler making bad decisions compounded by all of this.
The first two interceptions were caused by his receivers. The third was a really good defensive play. The last one was a bad throw with 11 seconds left.
He made a couple of throws which SHOULD have been interceptions but were dropped.
It was horrible. So horrible that, if it had been the dregs who are vying for a job in the last quarter of the first pre-season game, none of them would have gotten a job.
The second half was totally different. Cutler made some really brilliant throws, showing a “touch” that I hadn’t seen, threading the ball over and between defenders. He only made one mistake (until the last 11 seconds left interception) — throwing the ball to a receiver covered by FOUR defenders — and THAT was only a mistake because he underthrew the ball by about 1/2 a foot — otherwise it would have been a big gain, maybe even a touchdown.
Then, without Urlacher, the defense let them down and he had 11 seconds to score a TD. To me, it appeared that he “gave up” and just tossed it on the first play, resulting in an interception.
Overall, I think that the day showed both sides that they’re right. Cutler has all the tools to be a BRILLIANT QB and he hasn’t yet developed the mental toughness to deploy those tools effectively. This season, I think, will demonstrate whether or not he EVER WILL develop that mental toughness.
I’m NOT persuaded that he can or will, but time will tell.
Oh…and, not to judge a book by its cover, but..
He sure LOOKS like a petulant child to me (especially in the post game interview).
As I have said since day one, I think he is vastly overrated by people who think “skill” is all physical. My first “say what?” moment with Jay Cutler was his rookie year when he got put in and Mike Shanahan said they had cut the playbook in half so he could handle it, and in an interview Cutler said that he was “struggling” to learn the playbook because it was “so complex.” This is essentially a playbook that Gus Frerotte (who once head butted a STADIUM), Brian Griese and Jake Plummer seemed to have no problem with. Much less a PUBLIC problem. I remember commenting at the time “This guy has been playing football his whole freaking life, has been in training camp since April and STILL can’t keep more than half the plays straight? And he’s supposed to be some football GENIUS? Right.
Heh, I don’t think ANYONE has offered that Cutler was a “football genius” merely that he had all the PHYSICAL tools to be a great QB.
He does. He has a great “touch” and he has a cannon. He can throw from any angle. He doesn’t do so well out of the pocket, but neither did most great “pocket passers” (Marino, Bledsoe).
Let me assure you, here in Denver when he was drafted and made the starter, all we heard was what a football genius Cutler was.
Well, I’m shocked! The media was wrong?
Cutler played for the Vanderbilt Commodes for heaven’s sake!
Look, great QBs often come from unknown programs…witness Bradshaw, Romo, etc. But when a guy goes to Vanderbilt it means that he thinks his dookie smells good.
But Vanderbilt is an SEC team…well known…and NOBODY goes to Vandy unless they want to be a big fish in a little pond. Let me retract that. I mean…nobody goes to Vandy to be an “athlete” if they are not completely insecure in their ability to make it big time.
The guy has some skills for sure. But he chose Vanderbilt, then went on to the NFL! It does not add up.
Cutler earned his degree in “Human and Organizational Development.” Now, I’m not sure if that’s true or not, but that’s what Wikipedia reports. “Human and Organizational Development” sounds a lot like me to be “Phys Ed.”
Bradshaw played on a great team, both offense and defense. I think that, by finger counting the number of HOFers on offense and defense, the Steelers of that era was without question the greatest team ever — without a close second.
Bradshaw played well enough that the rest of the team could make up for the rest of the time that he played like Cutler.
Romo? Come on. At least win a playoff game before we bestow “great” on him…
I’m afraid I have to agree on Romo. He’s got all the tools and has demonstrated both great football savvy and great team leadership, but he has not put a “W” in the playoff category. That’s required to get in the “great” category.
Still, I’m a big Romo fan. I mean a guy who dumps Jessica Simpson? You kidding?
Heh…
Yah, but in order to “dump” Jessica “tuna is chicken” Simpson, you have to first “hook up” with her.
Can’t see that whole thing as a “positive….”
I’ve said before that I don’t buy the whole “I’m such a stupid blonde dingbat” Jessica Simpson vibe. I think, like other blonde celebrities before her, she plays that up to generate press. As stupid as she is supposed to be, I’ve never heard her spew any of the insane drivel of the likes of Charlie Sheen, Barbra Streisand, Jeanine Garafalo, just to name a few.
For some reason I find it easier to accept someone actually thinking tuna is chicken than accepting that the US Government arranged for the murder of 3,000 citizens just to gen up a crazy war.
As Forrest says, “stupid is as stupid does.” For such a stupid woman, she sure seems to keep herself well dressed and well paid.
And I still say she is about as hot as it is humanly possible to be.
You don’t get much hotter than her, that’s for sure.
But, she’s stupid. Beyond imagining.
I’d rather make love to someone else and fantasize about her than make love to her and have to listen to her afterwards.
Pretty much what all her boyfriends have concluded thus far…
Back to “football”, and to Romo… I was just trying to make the point that “pro” QBs can come from almost anywhere. Northern Iowa, Allegheny State, Jackson State, Alcorn A & M, etc.
Romo certainly has not yet distinguished himself as “great” just yet. It was a bad example.
But nobody goes to an SEC weak sister to play QB if they do not intend to just soak up accolades from the home-folk. Cutler got lucky, even though the Commodes never got anywhere near an SEC title, and he got drafted…and he got traded…and he got humiliated.
The guy is probably not a bad human being. But he is WAY overrated. Denver should be happy to be rid of him.
course my man Brady – dumps a Supermodel and upgrades to a Brazilian Supermodel.
heh.
That was some game last night.
I had to dvr it. Only saw about half hour of it so far- course I FF it to the last 2 minutes.
Young crew still on both sides, I saw Brady make a few errors – but after a year off anybody’s going to need to get into the rhythm still.
Week 2:
Cutler looked good.
Romo looked mediocre.
Brady looked mediocre. (Unfortunately he was my FIRST pick in Fantasy FB and Moss was my SECOND…)
Orton looked adequate.
I’d say Romo looked worse than mediocre. If Cutler had a day like Romo had yesterday I’d have been all over him. That was pretty miserable. And costly. Losing to the Giants when the rest of the team played solid football is not going to do much to cement Romo as the “team leader” he promised to be this year.
Cosmic, you are right. Romo looked like ME trying to play NFL football.
I do think it says something for the ‘Boys that even with all of Tony’s screw-ups they still could have won. But it was not to be. I like Romo…his skills, etc. But you are right.
If the rest of the team goes out and plays solid…only to have Tony either fumble it away, or throw it away…well…
It was a game Dallas should have won. I don’t often armchair a game, because stuff happens. But very few times will you give away the ball four (or whatever it was) times to zero, and win.
I suppose you could argue that it isn’t all bad because if they can come that close to beating the 2007 Super Bowl champions after Romo’s play, then they just have one thing to fix…
And to be fair to Romo, he looked pretty freaking awesome in game #1…
Long season. Right now I’m trying to keep my sports attention on the Rockies. I’m still trying to figure out how they’re going to blow this thing with only 12 days left.
Ain’t gonna happen Cosmic! The Rockies will definitely not lose enough games to get hexed out.
Oh, merciful Lord, I probably just put a hex on ‘em. My apologies.
So, uncross the bats in the dugout, turn the caps around, and rub a red headed boy’s hair for luck (catch that one and win a prize)…and we will see The Rockies in the playoffs.
Do they play baseball in Denver while snow is falling? Just curious…
They are playing in the snow tonight.
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