After 10 days of stomping his feet, holding his breath and not returning phone calls Jay Cutler finally got his way. Denver owner Pat Bowlen announced Tuesday that he’d try to accommodate his spoiled quarterback’s desire to be traded.
The snot-nosed quarterback apparently decided again to not return phone calls or text messages from Bowlen and coach Josh McDaniels.
Roughly one-quarter of the league has reportedly been linked to the brat, err, Cutler talks. Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, visiting the Dan Patrick Show, said his best guesses for Cutler’s destination would be the New York Jets and then the Tampa Bay Bucs.
Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco (assuming Cutler doesn’t have issues with Matt Stafford’s parents getting divorced), Cleveland, and Jacksonville were also mentioned by Yahoo Sports and other outlets.
The rumor I like best so far? Cutler to Washington with former Broncos coach Mike Shanahan to follow, possibly next season.
Vinny Cerrato, executive vice president of football operations, of course denies in the Washington Post that the team is going to go after Cutler. But Jason Campbell has been inconsistent (though having 36 offensive coordinators in four seasons hasn’t helped), Jim Zorn has always sort of been seen for right or wrong as a temporary coach, and owner Daniel Snyder loves to make a splash.
What bigger splash than making a deal for Cutler and then following up by snagging the brat’s former Broncos coach?
The Washington Times adds that sources have told its reporters that the Redskins are in fact interested in Cutler AND they note that Shanahan and Cerrato are close.
This whole thing has gotten stupid. McDaniels screwed up in going after Matt Cassel and in how he handled the situation with Cutler. Cutler has screwed up repeatedly in the time since, by not returning phone calls and texts and by generally acting like the stereotypical professional athlete who thinks the world revolves around him. There’s really no way Denver should be in the position of having to trade a solid-to-potentially-great quarterback who should be their guy for years.
But it looks like the relationship is busted. And as such, Denver will be looking to get as much as they can – I wouldn’t be a lot on it, but if I had an extra nickel, my money would be on the QB eventually landing in D.C.
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Cutler to the Bears! Thank god the my J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS didn’t get him to be honest. Denver wanted 2 first round draft picks and a player for a QB who throws 18 Int’s in a season and who is 17-20 as a starter. I think the Bears are better off with him. the Bears since 2000, has had 11 different QB’s who has start at least 1 game. That is bad.
Make a topics about the future’s of the Broncos and the future’s of the Bears.
I just found out that details of the trade:
Bears acquire: Jay Cutler
Broncos acquire: 2 first round draft picks in the 2009 and 2010 draft and QB Kyle Orton.
Well, the Bears got a top 10 QB.
But, the broncos get the 18 pick of the draft this year and get another first round pick of the 2010 draft. And on top of all of that, they get a pretty decent QB in Kyle Orton. I think there will be an open competition between Chris Simms and Kyle Orton. With the draft pick this year, they can work on there defense. And they honestly can trade the 2010 first round draft pick for a defensive player. Maybe to the Panthers for Julius Peppers. Imagine that.
Holy cow, there is more to the trade!
Bears aqcuire: Jay Cutler and a fifth round draft pick in this years draft.
Broncos acquire: first round draft picks in the 2009 draft and 2010 draft, a third round draft pick in 2009 draft and Kyle Orton.
Sorry about that. More info every second!