Horse Tracks 4/4/09
by Douglas A. Lee on Apr 4, 2009 7:43 AM MDT
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DP - Kyle Orton has already reported in with the Broncos, meeting with coaches yesterday and getting to work on learning a new system.
DP - Josh McDaniels addressed the media yesterday about the Cutler trade and preceding drama. Lindsay Jones offers a few thoughts, and some links to the audio accompany them.
DB - Here is the video from the press conference, in full from the Broncos. Also, an article about the presser from DB.com.
NFLN - Rich Eisen interviews Brandon Marshall, who says he'll "follow the guys with the rings," referring to Bowlen and McDaniels. He also takes something of a shot across Cutler's bow, saying that it "means nothing to throw for 4,500 yards and 25 touchdowns and you don't win."
DP - Some more notes from the presser, plus the news that Patrick Ramsey has agreed to take Chris Simms' old role in Tennessee.
DP - McDaniels tells Woody that it's all about winning.
NFLN - The Network guys discuss the draft ramifications stemming from the trade. Mike Mayock thinks Denver will go after a QB, while Charles Davis believes Mark Sanchez is a fit.
IN - McDaniels has made it clear that jobs must be earned. Somehow, Sam Adams thinks that by not proclaiming Kyle Orton the starter, McDaniels still wants to find a QB.
IN - Lynn DeBruin's take on the press conference.
NYT - JayrocksD has this up as a FanPost, but I think it deserves note here as well - Stefan Fatsis' column on the Cutler situation is a must-read. His contacts said it all stemmed from Cutler's request for a new contract.
FOX - FOX Sports puts the Broncos on the clock for the draft, consulting with Lindsay Jones? Seriously? She actually says the Broncos could use a 1 on a WR.
DP - Armstrong offers some thoughts.
NFL - Rich Eisen interviews some QB by the name of Cutler.
ESPN - Ed Werder also interviews this Cutler guy.
DP - Anthony Cotton writes about the Chicago presser of the Broncos' former QB.
ESPN - BDawk is giving his Eagles tickets (for the Broncos' game there this season) to the guy who got fired for his Facebook posting.
SI - Jim Trotter compares the Cutler trade to the one of Eric Dickerson.
SI - Don Banks applauds teams for getting rid of their headaches.
WP - Your turn, Skins - Daniel Snyder and Co. met with Jason Campbell to tell him they still want him to be their QB. Really.
Y! - Here's Mike Silver's Friday column, much of which was spent writing about The Trade.
SN - Tony Moss thinks it will be interesting to see how Cutler performs, now that he doesn't have the best O-Line in the universe (my words).
CST - If you really want to read the Chicago take on Cutler, here is the Sun Times' Bears section. I'm not going to link the individual stories - he's a Bear, now.
CT - And here is the Tribune's Bears section.
KCS - Adam Teicher offer a video blog entry about the Chefs' #3 overall pick, again from his mother's basement in his underwear.
SFG - Have the Raiders decided to stop signing other teams' malcontents?
Y! - By the way, Todd Marinovich is back in jail.
NFL - The Giants have released WR Plaxico Burress.
AZR - Negotiations between LB Karlos Dansby and the Cardinals are heating up.
AZR - Missed this one - the Cards signed FB Dan Kreider the other day.
SI - Ross Tucker doesn't get why the Jags are thinking about drafting a QB.
NFP - Wes Bunting ranks the players outside his top 5 at each skill position.
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Good Morning nyc, Thanks for Horse Tracks....
Real Power, comes with the realization that One cannot change the Moment;
only ones perception of it: Atitude! JQM
Thanks, NYC.
1) I have to admit, it’s slightly odd envisaging that guy in a Bears uniform, but oh well…
2) Every day, I dig Brian Dawkins more. Still can’t believe he’s a Bronco. 
"Take Integral Birth, Paul."
by Tempestuous Binary on Apr 4, 2009 8:05 AM MDT reply actions
a must read...
I met Cutler when he was the first-round draft choice in 2006 …. But Cutler is virtually absent from my book. That’s because he was uncompelling journalistically and off-putting personally. I sought out players who thought deeply and were interested in explaining the physical and emotional realities of playing in the NFL. That wasn’t Cutler. His demeanor often was that of a bored, eye-rolling teenage girl, with a dash of smugness for good measure. Since then, I’ve received unflattering reports about his behavior and indifferent-to-negative ones about his relationship with his teammates.
This is the feeling I always got from Cutler as well. A lone wolf if you will, a guy that teammates don’t rally behind and doesn’t make anyone else better. Football is a game of passion, beyond the other major sports, and you especially need that will (or spleen) to win on every down.
When you think back to Cutler’s run-ins with Philip Rivers, I now have a different perspective. At time I was like F-Rivers I hate that guy, but now I look at and say .. Why did Jay care? Why did he get caught up in the whole thing?
re: Fatsis article
This is head and shoulders above the pap called sports journalism.
Should Jay Cutler and his agent, Bus Cook, have been insulted that these conversations took place? Of course not. Coaches and general managers have a responsibility, akin to a CEO’s fiduciary responsibility, to consider anything that might improve their team. What I know based on talking to some of my former Broncos colleagues is that, well before this drama erupted, Cook and Cutler wanted to renegotiate the quarterback’s six-year contract, which has three years left. The current deal included $15 million in guaranteed payments. Cutler was paid a $1.275 million roster bonus in 2006 and a $7.9 million option bonus in 2007. But his base salaries are, by Pro Bowl-quarterback standards, meager, and a $12 million performance bonus isn’t due until 2011.
Ted Sundquist, the Broncos’ general manager when I was with the team, told me at the time that, because of the large lump-sum, back-end payout, the contract would probably be restructured before it expires. He said Bus Cook also expected that to happen. Did Cutler and Cook manufacture their hurt feelings over McDaniels’s trade talks and the coach’s subsequent ineffectual spin in an effort to get a new contract now, or get to another city that would give them one? I don’t know. But they certainly saw an opening.
Thank you NYC
a stellar job as always.
Cutler…..cutler…..hmm not sure I know who you are talking about. Did he play in Denver once?
http://www.davusx.net/assets/db/la_la_land.gif
"We should have kept Seattle and dumped San Diego from the Division"
Davis and Sharpe to the Hall!
OMG
the “kids” were brought into this? kids “can’t understand the situation”? fortunately they’ll understand when they’re all grown up why Denver’s starting QB ran himself out of town… great comedy…
Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
John C. Calhoun --
Dawkins is a good guy and Lindsey Jones is clueless.
NYC,thanks for finding all these articles.
I agree, Larsen shouldn’t get any bigger. I am getting tired of his bone crushing hits knocking the pixels off my TV, once they fall to the floor they are very hard to find.
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