2006 Redux: Seattke Returns

[Brownie]

Turner had to go. He converted Kelvin Hayden into a DB and if not for that, maybe the Bears lose Super Bowl XLI 22-17.

I've always wondered what Turner was thinking when that play happened. Had he just left him at wideout Jon Beutjer would have destroyed his draft stock and Rex probably throws that ball for a TD or, well, to really any other DB that was in the general vicinity of the sideline.

I like your way of thinking. Bears win the Super Bowl 24-22 and Peyton Manning retires three years later unable to cope with being outdueled by Rex Grossman, humiliated by his desperation pass to Dallas Clark late in the game getting picked off by Hunter Hillenmeyer to seal the game, and ultimately forced to suffer the indignity of having new coach Josh McDaniels attempt to trade for Matt Cassell before being forced to settle on Brett Favre.

Meanwhile, Rex, having won the Superbowl and silenced his critics, flips Chicago the bird, retires early, and starts a very successful career as a rapper and adult film star.

And Jake Utler goes on to a dozen AFC Pro Bowls as Pat Bowlen spares no expense to lure Lovie Smith to Denver.

[Internet Apex]

Turner had to go. He converted Kelvin Hayden into a DB and if not for that, maybe the Bears lose Super Bowl XLI 22-17.

I've always wondered what Turner was thinking when that play happened. Had he just left him at wideout Jon Beutjer would have destroyed his draft stock and Rex probably throws that ball for a TD or, well, to really any other DB that was in the general vicinity of the sideline.

I like your way of thinking. Bears win the Super Bowl 24-22 and Peyton Manning retires three years later unable to cope with being outdueled by Rex Grossman, humiliated by his desperation pass to Dallas Clark late in the game getting picked off by Hunter Hillenmeyer to seal the game, and ultimately forced to suffer the indignity of having new coach Josh McDaniels attempt to trade for Matt Cassell before being forced to settle on Brett Favre.

Meanwhile, Rex, having won the Superbowl and silenced his critics, flips Chicago the bird, retires early, and starts a very successful career as a rapper and adult film star.

And Jake Utler goes on to a dozen AFC Pro Bowls as Pat Bowlen spares no expense to lure Lovie Smith to Denver.

And BC moves to Cheyenne to cover the Broncos as a beat writer.

[SKO]

And on the eve of the playoffs, Cutler continues to ingratiate himself into my heart (even though he wouldn't give a fuck about that) by making absolutely no secret of the fact that he doesn't give a flying fuck about the media:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-0113-haugh-bears-chicago--20110112,0,1318518.column Here David Haugh says he lacks intensity.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/sports/nfl/bears/rick-reilly-espn-bears-jay-cutler-quarterback-20110112 Rick Reilly, humorless hack, says the following: "He seems like he's wearing sandpaper underwear. For a guy from Santa Claus, Indiana, he's the least jolly person I've ever met," Reilly said. "He doesn't care what the public thinks of him. The public around the country doesn't know him and doesn't like him."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/bears/2011/01/jay_cutler_under_the_media_mic.html Here Reilly pisses off Greg Olsen.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25256837137833984 Zach Zaidman says the questions are stupid.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25277061929111552 Olin Kreutz does not tolerate bullshit.

And finally, when Rick Morrissey is making sense, you've got the wrong conversation:
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/football/bears/3281297-419/cutler-image-guy-jay-everyone.html "In the end, though, if it's a choice between a nice quarterback who doesn't win and a dour one who does win, we'll take dour every time. What is it Al Davis says? Just win, baby. That's all."

I'm more and more beginning to hope that Jay Cutler is just every much the asshole people says he is, and that his success on the field will gall them for years.

[Quality Start Machine]

When Reno Hightower was a prick, he was the best QB in Kern County.

[Waco Kid]

And on the eve of the playoffs, Cutler continues to ingratiate himself into my heart (even though he wouldn't give a fuck about that) by making absolutely no secret of the fact that he doesn't give a flying fuck about the media:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-0113-haugh-bears-chicago--20110112,0,1318518.column Here David Haugh says he lacks intensity.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/sports/nfl/bears/rick-reilly-espn-bears-jay-cutler-quarterback-20110112 Rick Reilly, humorless hack, says the following: "He seems like he's wearing sandpaper underwear. For a guy from Santa Claus, Indiana, he's the least jolly person I've ever met," Reilly said. "He doesn't care what the public thinks of him. The public around the country doesn't know him and doesn't like him."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/bears/2011/01/jay_cutler_under_the_media_mic.html Here Reilly pisses off Greg Olsen.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25256837137833984 Zach Zaidman says the questions are stupid.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25277061929111552 Olin Kreutz does not tolerate bullshit.

And finally, when Rick Morrissey is making sense, you've got the wrong conversation:
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/football/bears/3281297-419/cutler-image-guy-jay-everyone.html "In the end, though, if it's a choice between a nice quarterback who doesn't win and a dour one who does win, we'll take dour every time. What is it Al Davis says? Just win, baby. That's all."

I'm more and more beginning to hope that Jay Cutler is just every much the asshole people says he is, and that his success on the field will gall them for years.

I don't think he is an asshole, I just think he is smart enough to know that the media sucks and will turn on him whether he treats them well or like shit. I like the way he is doing it now.

[SKO]

And on the eve of the playoffs, Cutler continues to ingratiate himself into my heart (even though he wouldn't give a fuck about that) by making absolutely no secret of the fact that he doesn't give a flying fuck about the media:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-0113-haugh-bears-chicago--20110112,0,1318518.column Here David Haugh says he lacks intensity.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/sports/nfl/bears/rick-reilly-espn-bears-jay-cutler-quarterback-20110112 Rick Reilly, humorless hack, says the following: "He seems like he's wearing sandpaper underwear. For a guy from Santa Claus, Indiana, he's the least jolly person I've ever met," Reilly said. "He doesn't care what the public thinks of him. The public around the country doesn't know him and doesn't like him."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/bears/2011/01/jay_cutler_under_the_media_mic.html Here Reilly pisses off Greg Olsen.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25256837137833984 Zach Zaidman says the questions are stupid.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25277061929111552 Olin Kreutz does not tolerate bullshit.

And finally, when Rick Morrissey is making sense, you've got the wrong conversation:
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/football/bears/3281297-419/cutler-image-guy-jay-everyone.html "In the end, though, if it's a choice between a nice quarterback who doesn't win and a dour one who does win, we'll take dour every time. What is it Al Davis says? Just win, baby. That's all."

I'm more and more beginning to hope that Jay Cutler is just every much the asshole people says he is, and that his success on the field will gall them for years.

I don't think he is an asshole, I just think he is smart enough to know that the media sucks and will turn on him whether he treats them well or like shit. I like the way he is doing it now.

That too.

[R-V]

And on the eve of the playoffs, Cutler continues to ingratiate himself into my heart (even though he wouldn't give a fuck about that) by making absolutely no secret of the fact that he doesn't give a flying fuck about the media:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-0113-haugh-bears-chicago--20110112,0,1318518.column Here David Haugh says he lacks intensity.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/sports/nfl/bears/rick-reilly-espn-bears-jay-cutler-quarterback-20110112 Rick Reilly, humorless hack, says the following: "He seems like he's wearing sandpaper underwear. For a guy from Santa Claus, Indiana, he's the least jolly person I've ever met," Reilly said. "He doesn't care what the public thinks of him. The public around the country doesn't know him and doesn't like him."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/bears/2011/01/jay_cutler_under_the_media_mic.html Here Reilly pisses off Greg Olsen.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25256837137833984 Zach Zaidman says the questions are stupid.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25277061929111552 Olin Kreutz does not tolerate bullshit.

And finally, when Rick Morrissey is making sense, you've got the wrong conversation:
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/football/bears/3281297-419/cutler-image-guy-jay-everyone.html "In the end, though, if it's a choice between a nice quarterback who doesn't win and a dour one who does win, we'll take dour every time. What is it Al Davis says? Just win, baby. That's all."

I'm more and more beginning to hope that Jay Cutler is just every much the asshole people says he is, and that his success on the field will gall them for years.

I don't think he is an asshole, I just think he is smart enough to know that the media sucks and will turn on him whether he treats them well or like shit. I like the way he is doing it now.

I think he's probably kind of an asshole and kinda douchey. Which means he's got a lot in common with the denizens of Desipioland. I hope the Bears win the Super Bowl and Kreutz puts Reilly in a headlock so Cutler can fart in his face.

[SKO]

And on the eve of the playoffs, Cutler continues to ingratiate himself into my heart (even though he wouldn't give a fuck about that) by making absolutely no secret of the fact that he doesn't give a flying fuck about the media:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-0113-haugh-bears-chicago--20110112,0,1318518.column Here David Haugh says he lacks intensity.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/sports/nfl/bears/rick-reilly-espn-bears-jay-cutler-quarterback-20110112 Rick Reilly, humorless hack, says the following: "He seems like he's wearing sandpaper underwear. For a guy from Santa Claus, Indiana, he's the least jolly person I've ever met," Reilly said. "He doesn't care what the public thinks of him. The public around the country doesn't know him and doesn't like him."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/bears/2011/01/jay_cutler_under_the_media_mic.html Here Reilly pisses off Greg Olsen.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25256837137833984 Zach Zaidman says the questions are stupid.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25277061929111552 Olin Kreutz does not tolerate bullshit.

And finally, when Rick Morrissey is making sense, you've got the wrong conversation:
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/football/bears/3281297-419/cutler-image-guy-jay-everyone.html "In the end, though, if it's a choice between a nice quarterback who doesn't win and a dour one who does win, we'll take dour every time. What is it Al Davis says? Just win, baby. That's all."

I'm more and more beginning to hope that Jay Cutler is just every much the asshole people says he is, and that his success on the field will gall them for years.

I don't think he is an asshole, I just think he is smart enough to know that the media sucks and will turn on him whether he treats them well or like shit. I like the way he is doing it now.

I think he's probably kind of an asshole and kinda douchey. Which means he's got a lot in common with the denizens of Desipioland. I hope the Bears win the Super Bowl and Kreutz puts Reilly in a headlock so Cutler can fart in his face.

I think he's a cocky sonofabitch who hates losing like it's cancer and looks like he wants to set the entire stadium on fire whenever he gets sacked or throw an interception. I can relate to that, so I appreciate it. I also think that if "intangibles" matter at all, it's in his relationship with his teammates, and other than one comment Urlacher may or may not have said to Bobby fucking Wade before he even met Jay Cutler they seem to support him. He's got the entire organization behind him 100%, so that alone should keep him from the Jeff George comparison that everyone likes to make. Because George's attitude did not affect his on-field play, and neither does Cutler. The only time that "chemistry" shit really matters is if you get a coach and a front office who get tired of it and decide to toss the guy. Cutler's never shown anything with anyone other than Josh McDaniels that would hint at a problem like that, and I think it's safe to say by now that McDaniels was more of a problem than Jay.

[CT III]

And on the eve of the playoffs, Cutler continues to ingratiate himself into my heart (even though he wouldn't give a fuck about that) by making absolutely no secret of the fact that he doesn't give a flying fuck about the media:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-0113-haugh-bears-chicago--20110112,0,1318518.column Here David Haugh says he lacks intensity.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/sports/nfl/bears/rick-reilly-espn-bears-jay-cutler-quarterback-20110112 Rick Reilly, humorless hack, says the following: "He seems like he's wearing sandpaper underwear. For a guy from Santa Claus, Indiana, he's the least jolly person I've ever met," Reilly said. "He doesn't care what the public thinks of him. The public around the country doesn't know him and doesn't like him."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/bears/2011/01/jay_cutler_under_the_media_mic.html Here Reilly pisses off Greg Olsen.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25256837137833984 Zach Zaidman says the questions are stupid.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25277061929111552 Olin Kreutz does not tolerate bullshit.

And finally, when Rick Morrissey is making sense, you've got the wrong conversation:
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/football/bears/3281297-419/cutler-image-guy-jay-everyone.html "In the end, though, if it's a choice between a nice quarterback who doesn't win and a dour one who does win, we'll take dour every time. What is it Al Davis says? Just win, baby. That's all."

I'm more and more beginning to hope that Jay Cutler is just every much the asshole people says he is, and that his success on the field will gall them for years.

I don't think he is an asshole, I just think he is smart enough to know that the media sucks and will turn on him whether he treats them well or like shit. I like the way he is doing it now.

I think he's probably kind of an asshole and kinda douchey. Which means he's got a lot in common with the denizens of Desipioland. I hope the Bears win the Super Bowl and Kreutz puts Reilly in a headlock so Cutler can fart in his face.

I think he's a cocky sonofabitch who hates losing like it's cancer and looks like he wants to set the entire stadium on fire whenever he gets sacked or throw an interception. I can relate to that, so I appreciate it. I also think that if "intangibles" matter at all, it's in his relationship with his teammates, and other than one comment Urlacher may or may not have said to Bobby fucking Wade before he even met Jay Cutler they seem to support him. He's got the entire organization behind him 100%, so that alone should keep him from the Jeff George comparison that everyone likes to make. Because George's attitude did not affect his on-field play, and neither does Cutler. The only time that "chemistry" shit really matters is if you get a coach and a front office who get tired of it and decide to toss the guy. Cutler's never shown anything with anyone other than Josh McDaniels that would hint at a problem like that, and I think it's safe to say by now that McDaniels was more of a problem than Jay.

If he hates losing so much, why does he lose all the time?  He's a loser.

[flannj]

And on the eve of the playoffs, Cutler continues to ingratiate himself into my heart (even though he wouldn't give a fuck about that) by making absolutely no secret of the fact that he doesn't give a flying fuck about the media:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-0113-haugh-bears-chicago--20110112,0,1318518.column Here David Haugh says he lacks intensity.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/sports/nfl/bears/rick-reilly-espn-bears-jay-cutler-quarterback-20110112 Rick Reilly, humorless hack, says the following: "He seems like he's wearing sandpaper underwear. For a guy from Santa Claus, Indiana, he's the least jolly person I've ever met," Reilly said. "He doesn't care what the public thinks of him. The public around the country doesn't know him and doesn't like him."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/bears/2011/01/jay_cutler_under_the_media_mic.html Here Reilly pisses off Greg Olsen.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25256837137833984 Zach Zaidman says the questions are stupid.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25277061929111552 Olin Kreutz does not tolerate bullshit.

And finally, when Rick Morrissey is making sense, you've got the wrong conversation:
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/football/bears/3281297-419/cutler-image-guy-jay-everyone.html "In the end, though, if it's a choice between a nice quarterback who doesn't win and a dour one who does win, we'll take dour every time. What is it Al Davis says? Just win, baby. That's all."

I'm more and more beginning to hope that Jay Cutler is just every much the asshole people says he is, and that his success on the field will gall them for years.

I don't think he is an asshole, I just think he is smart enough to know that the media sucks and will turn on him whether he treats them well or like shit. I like the way he is doing it now.

I think he's probably kind of an asshole and kinda douchey. Which means he's got a lot in common with the denizens of Desipioland. I hope the Bears win the Super Bowl and Kreutz puts Reilly in a headlock so Cutler can fart in his face.

I think he's a cocky sonofabitch who hates losing like it's cancer and looks like he wants to set the entire stadium on fire whenever he gets sacked or throw an interception. I can relate to that, so I appreciate it. I also think that if "intangibles" matter at all, it's in his relationship with his teammates, and other than one comment Urlacher may or may not have said to Bobby fucking Wade before he even met Jay Cutler they seem to support him. He's got the entire organization behind him 100%, so that alone should keep him from the Jeff George comparison that everyone likes to make. Because George's attitude did not affect his on-field play, and neither does Cutler. The only time that "chemistry" shit really matters is if you get a coach and a front office who get tired of it and decide to toss the guy. Cutler's never shown anything with anyone other than Josh McDaniels that would hint at a problem like that, and I think it's safe to say by now that McDaniels was more of a problem than Jay.

Typical media response when dealing with a player that isn't an easy interview. Brand him as a jerk and make that your story.
Because to actually write something that would be worth reading would require effort and a bit of talent.
I don't care if he's a jerk or not, and I'm certainly not going take to heart the opinion of some dipshit reporter.
What I do care about is that he's really good at being the quarterback of the Bears.

But what matters even more is that last night I won a pair of tickets to Sundays game.
Frozen, drunk, screaming at the top of his lungs flannj at Soldier Field.

Fuck.
Yeah.

[BBM]

And on the eve of the playoffs, Cutler continues to ingratiate himself into my heart (even though he wouldn't give a fuck about that) by making absolutely no secret of the fact that he doesn't give a flying fuck about the media:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-0113-haugh-bears-chicago--20110112,0,1318518.column Here David Haugh says he lacks intensity.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/sports/nfl/bears/rick-reilly-espn-bears-jay-cutler-quarterback-20110112 Rick Reilly, humorless hack, says the following: "He seems like he's wearing sandpaper underwear. For a guy from Santa Claus, Indiana, he's the least jolly person I've ever met," Reilly said. "He doesn't care what the public thinks of him. The public around the country doesn't know him and doesn't like him."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/bears/2011/01/jay_cutler_under_the_media_mic.html Here Reilly pisses off Greg Olsen.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25256837137833984 Zach Zaidman says the questions are stupid.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25277061929111552 Olin Kreutz does not tolerate bullshit.

And finally, when Rick Morrissey is making sense, you've got the wrong conversation:
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/football/bears/3281297-419/cutler-image-guy-jay-everyone.html "In the end, though, if it's a choice between a nice quarterback who doesn't win and a dour one who does win, we'll take dour every time. What is it Al Davis says? Just win, baby. That's all."

I'm more and more beginning to hope that Jay Cutler is just every much the asshole people says he is, and that his success on the field will gall them for years.

I don't think he is an asshole, I just think he is smart enough to know that the media sucks and will turn on him whether he treats them well or like shit. I like the way he is doing it now.

I think he's probably kind of an asshole and kinda douchey. Which means he's got a lot in common with the denizens of Desipioland. I hope the Bears win the Super Bowl and Kreutz puts Reilly in a headlock so Cutler can fart in his face.

I think he's a cocky sonofabitch who hates losing like it's cancer and looks like he wants to set the entire stadium on fire whenever he gets sacked or throw an interception. I can relate to that, so I appreciate it. I also think that if "intangibles" matter at all, it's in his relationship with his teammates, and other than one comment Urlacher may or may not have said to Bobby fucking Wade before he even met Jay Cutler they seem to support him. He's got the entire organization behind him 100%, so that alone should keep him from the Jeff George comparison that everyone likes to make. Because George's attitude did not affect his on-field play, and neither does Cutler. The only time that "chemistry" shit really matters is if you get a coach and a front office who get tired of it and decide to toss the guy. Cutler's never shown anything with anyone other than Josh McDaniels that would hint at a problem like that, and I think it's safe to say by now that McDaniels was more of a problem than Jay. He made Ortman into a superstar and started out 8-0 or something.  That boy good.

Meatball In a cave for the last couple years'ed.

[Internet Apex]

And on the eve of the playoffs, Cutler continues to ingratiate himself into my heart (even though he wouldn't give a fuck about that) by making absolutely no secret of the fact that he doesn't give a flying fuck about the media:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-0113-haugh-bears-chicago--20110112,0,1318518.column Here David Haugh says he lacks intensity.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/sports/nfl/bears/rick-reilly-espn-bears-jay-cutler-quarterback-20110112 Rick Reilly, humorless hack, says the following: "He seems like he's wearing sandpaper underwear. For a guy from Santa Claus, Indiana, he's the least jolly person I've ever met," Reilly said. "He doesn't care what the public thinks of him. The public around the country doesn't know him and doesn't like him."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/bears/2011/01/jay_cutler_under_the_media_mic.html Here Reilly pisses off Greg Olsen.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25256837137833984 Zach Zaidman says the questions are stupid.

http://twitter.com/ZachZaidman/status/25277061929111552 Olin Kreutz does not tolerate bullshit.

And finally, when Rick Morrissey is making sense, you've got the wrong conversation:
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/football/bears/3281297-419/cutler-image-guy-jay-everyone.html "In the end, though, if it's a choice between a nice quarterback who doesn't win and a dour one who does win, we'll take dour every time. What is it Al Davis says? Just win, baby. That's all."

I'm more and more beginning to hope that Jay Cutler is just every much the asshole people says he is, and that his success on the field will gall them for years.

I don't think he is an asshole, I just think he is smart enough to know that the media sucks and will turn on him whether he treats them well or like shit. I like the way he is doing it now.

I think he's probably kind of an asshole and kinda douchey. Which means he's got a lot in common with the denizens of Desipioland. I hope the Bears win the Super Bowl and Kreutz puts Reilly in a headlock so Cutler can fart in his face.

I think he's a cocky sonofabitch who hates losing like it's cancer and looks like he wants to set the entire stadium on fire whenever he gets sacked or throw an interception. I can relate to that, so I appreciate it. I also think that if "intangibles" matter at all, it's in his relationship with his teammates, and other than one comment Urlacher may or may not have said to Bobby fucking Wade before he even met Jay Cutler they seem to support him. He's got the entire organization behind him 100%, so that alone should keep him from the Jeff George comparison that everyone likes to make. Because George's attitude did not affect his on-field play, and neither does Cutler. The only time that "chemistry" shit really matters is if you get a coach and a front office who get tired of it and decide to toss the guy. Cutler's never shown anything with anyone other than Josh McDaniels that would hint at a problem like that, and I think it's safe to say by now that McDaniels was more of a problem than Jay.

I know we've been over this before. But George's attitude did effect his onfield play. Nobody on his own team could stand him. That affected the amount of work he and his teammates and coaches put in to prepare for opponents and etc. I've heard a thousand times how much George hated to work and that affected shit too. That's how a guy with all the tools in the world ended up not doing much. Because eventually, there was no onfield play because nobody would trust him enough to play him. So stop this nonsense once and for all. Please. At long last.

[Armchair_QB]

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/sports/nfl/bears/rick-reilly-espn-bears-jay-cutler-quarterback-20110112 Rick Reilly, humorless hack, says the following: "He seems like he's wearing sandpaper underwear. For a guy from Santa Claus, Indiana, he's the least jolly person I've ever met," Reilly said. "He doesn't care what the public thinks of him. The public around the country doesn't know him and doesn't like him."

If the country doesn't know him, how do they know they don't like him?

[Internet Apex]

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/sports/nfl/bears/rick-reilly-espn-bears-jay-cutler-quarterback-20110112 Rick Reilly, humorless hack, says the following: "He seems like he's wearing sandpaper underwear. For a guy from Santa Claus, Indiana, he's the least jolly person I've ever met," Reilly said. "He doesn't care what the public thinks of him. The public around the country doesn't know him and doesn't like him."

If the country doesn't know him, how do they know they don't like him?

We're Americans. We instinctively don't like what we don't know. That's why we're number 1.

[SKO]

I think he's a cocky sonofabitch who hates losing like it's cancer and looks like he wants to set the entire stadium on fire whenever he gets sacked or throw an interception. I can relate to that, so I appreciate it. I also think that if "intangibles" matter at all, it's in his relationship with his teammates, and other than one comment Urlacher may or may not have said to Bobby fucking Wade before he even met Jay Cutler they seem to support him. He's got the entire organization behind him 100%, so that alone should keep him from the Jeff George comparison that everyone likes to make. Because George's attitude did not affect his on-field play, and neither does Cutler. The only time that "chemistry" shit really matters is if you get a coach and a front office who get tired of it and decide to toss the guy. Cutler's never shown anything with anyone other than Josh McDaniels that would hint at a problem like that, and I think it's safe to say by now that McDaniels was more of a problem than Jay.

I know we've been over this before. But George's attitude did effect his onfield play. Nobody on his own team could stand him. That affected the amount of work he and his teammates and coaches put in to prepare for opponents and etc. I've heard a thousand times how much George hated to work and that affected shit too. That's how a guy with all the tools in the world ended up not doing much. Because eventually, there was no onfield play because nobody would trust him enough to play him. So stop this nonsense once and for all. Please. At long last.

Sigh. That's eventually what I said, innit? Look at the italicized. Yes, in a sense, the long term effect of George being an asshole was that it eventually affected his on-field play by, you know, keeping him off the field. But I mean that, in the short term, it didn't affect his playing ability or the results, because I don't see how anyone can look at his 1995 season with Atlanta, his 1997 campaign in Oakland, and his 1999 tour with the VIkings and say it kept him from being an effective player. My point is that people making the Jeff George comparisons miss the point with Cutler. He appears to have the entire support of his organization and the Only people he seems to give a shit about pleasing are them. So from an organizational standpoint the franchise has committed to Jay and thus he knows it doesn't matter what other people think. With George it was a combination of criticism from without and within the organizations he fucked.