An Absurd and Oh So Childish Good-bye

Seldom have I witnessed a situation as absurd and childish as this one.  Outside of everytime T.O. gets cut and goes to a new team there is little that can compare with this.  The new coach has not handled this well, I must admit. But the alleged franchise quarterback has handled it even worse.  The Broncos will be better off without him.  Hard to accept for some, I know.  While many of my fellow fans are upset right now, I would submit that a quarterback who acts like this and can drive Broncos fans this far appart,  is someone we are better off without.  Hear me out.

First the coach. His dilema: How to deal with a crazy person?

He really should have come clean from day one with Cutler and let him know that they might try and test the waters to get Cassel.  And after he failed to get Cassel he should have got on the first plane to Nashville and tried to patch things up with Cutler before his agent could get between he and his immature quarterback.  Had he done that, and we had still reached this point (and I think we would have) I would feel a whole lot better about McDaniels than I do now.  That said, who would have ever guessed that a trade rumor would cause Cutler to go absolutely nuts.  Lets be real, Jay Cutler has been nuttier than a Christmas fruitcake since all of this began.  How is a rational person supposed to deal with that?  To ask that question is to answer it. 

Chances are excellent that McDaniels saw this ugly side of Cutler sooner than the rest of us.  Chances are this, and the fact that Cutler makes poor decisions and throws interceptions so frequently, is what prompted McDaniels to start to think about a possible trade.  Given the way Cutler has acted, cannot say I blame him.  This is not what a franchise quarterback acts like.  Most high school quarterbacks have more maturity.

Coach after coach has tried to deal with the immature T.O., and I expect this will not be the last coach to have to deal with the immature Jay Cutler.

Moreover, the only guy with around a billion dollars of his own money at stake in this whole thing, Mr. Bowlen, seems to have confidence in his rookie head coach.  That, in my mind, counts for something.  It does not mean everything, but it means a lot.  Bowlen said when he let Shannahan go that he shows up everyday and knows what goes on with the Broncos.  I take him at his word. 

Now we move on to Cutler. Bowlen says he and McDaniels had tried for ten days to get in touch with Cutler without any success.  Cutler denies it.  Who to believe?  Not even a close call given the whopper of a story Cutler told FoxSports last night.  His blatant lie about not wanting to be traded insults our intelligence and proves he is worse than just a cry baby.  He is a liar.  Bowlen would have no reason to lie about this at all (and no, I am not going to demand that Bowlen produce phone records to prove he and his coach tried to reach Cutler, since doing so would only prove conclusively that Cutler is a habitual liar and lessen the value potential trade partners might be willing to give us in return for this loser). 

Of all things to lie about.  His own agent publicly requested the trade just  days ago. If you are going to lie, make it about something that will not be so obviously false.  What a punk. We will be better off with out that type of person in the organization.  When Jeff George went on the record earlier this week with Yahoo.com Sports and sided with Cutler, that should have told us something very powerful about him.  If his behavior makes since to Jeff George, what more proof would one need that Cutler is off his rocker?

Cutler has the most pure talent in the league.  I would have liked to see him grow up (rapidly), fire his agent and spend his entire carreer in Denver.  We should have known from his prior outbursts, on and off the field, that this could happen. But I for one would never have guessed it would come to this.  I am sad today that the whole thing happend, and that Cutler was so childish.

I hope Cutler has a very short career and that he never becomes what he could have been.  I pray that he winds up on a team with little talent and that he ends up playing for an organization, like Detroit, that is not committed to winning and is always at the back of the pack.  This did not have to end this way.  The whole ordeal has been absurd and childish. And it has been driven by Cutler and his slimeball agent. 

I can only hope the value they get for Cuter resembles the Hershall Walker deal and propels Denver to a dynasty like that trade did Dallas.

Character counts. And lets face it, time and again Shannahan was willing to bring in guys with no character (See for example, Maurice Clarret, Dale Carter, Travis Henry, Brandon Marshall, et. al).  It was one of the worst things about Shannahan, great as he was for the Broncos.  Cutler is just the most visable, and the last (I hope) in a long line of guys who have poor character, and who Shannahan just seemed to love. Save the nasty emails. If you think Cutler has character, we will just have to disagree. Selfish, thin skinned, immature, liars are not who I want my kids looking up to.  This guy is to football what Manny Ramirez is to baseball.  Sure he has incredible talent, but he is a complete head case that is like a cancer to an organization.  Good-bye and good ridance.