Hey Cutler, Would You Like Some Cheese With That Whine?

"Cheesy" title, I know (I could go on all day with references like this), but all Jay Cutler has done the past few weeks is whine like a little girl about his situation in Denver. (Side Note; For those of you looking for a post about Jesus...I mean John Calipari, I am going to leave that up to my colleague Greg, seeing as he has already replaced George Washington on Mt. Rushmore with Calipari.)

Seriously though, Cutler needs to shut-up, or I guess speak up since he is acting like an 8 year old and giving the Broncos the silent treatment. The Broncos do not owe him anything, nor does Cutler have any leverage in this mess at all. DO NOT get me wrong, I think Jay Cutler is uber-talented, I mean who doesn't like a 6'3" , 230 lb quarterback with a laser rocket arm? (Haven't I heard that somewhere?) But Cutler has been in the league for 3 years and has NO playoff wins to show for it, and in my personal opinion stats don't matter, wins do.

Ok, so new head coach Josh McDaniels didn't exactly endear himself to Cutler when one of his first orders of business was to try and trade for wunderkind Matt Cassell, who I am still not sold on, but sports is a business these days. These things happen. Are you telling me Mike Shanahan wont try and trade for every offensive lineman that has played for him once he gets another job, even Mark Schlereth, because lets face it, he needs to find something else to do.

What many people are forgetting, Cutler included, is Cutler is still the same quarterback of a team that blew a 3 game lead in the division with 3 games to go. Now I can already hear the nay-sayers, "it was the defenses fault", last time I checked the offense needs to score some points too. In Denver's 8 wins last year, Cutler threw for 2,447 yards, 17 td's, and 5 int's with a QB rating of 105.1. On the contrary, in Denver's 8 losses those stats dropped to 2,079 yds, 8 td's, 13 int's and a rating of 68.6. Also in their last three games, all defeats by the way, the offense put up 54 points, an average of 18 a game. Not awful, but hardly championship worthy numbers.

Now you may say I have it in for Jay Cutler, as you will see later I do not. What I do have a problem with is his refusal to show up while UNDER CONTRACT, and this is not a problem exclusive to Cutler. Let me break it down for you like this, Greg and I both worked in television, an industry which for some unknown reason makes it employees sign contracts. If Greg or myself decided that we didn't want to fulfill our contractual duties, and believe me it crossed our minds daily, the station would say "Ok, that's fine", the only problem being we would not get paid the rest of our money and we would not be able to work anywhere else until our contracts were up. Sounds awesome right?

Now I know professional athletes make a little bit more money than Greg and I did, but still 20-25,000 dollars a year is still a lot of money....Oh wait, I have just been told in my earpiece that 20-25,000 dollars is in fact not a lot of money, and that our contracts probably would have been terminated anyway regardless of how highly we thought of ourselves. Yes I still wear my earpiece around. It gives me the rush I need to get through the day.

The moral of this story is Jay Cutler should show up, perform his duties, and try to lead the Broncos back to respectability, because what many people don't realize is Denver has won 1 playoff game since John Elway retired. To put that into perspective, the Redskins have won 2, which leads me to my second point, the REDSKINS SHOULD TRADE FOR JAY CUTLER!!!

I may bash the guy for his child like characteristics, but I know talent when I see it, and this kid has got some TALENT. It has been so long since the Skins had a QB that could shred a defense that it is time for some new "Cutlery" (its too easy folks.) Do I like Jason Campbell? Yes. Do I love him? NO. Would I love to see Jay Cutler connect with a streaking Santana Clause 65 yards down the middle of the field? WHO THE HELL WOULDN'T? So if you're reading this post Zornado, listen carefully, trade Jason Campbell, the 1st round pick, Ladell Betts, and Joe Theisman's surgically repaired leg to the Broncos for Jay Cutler. It makes too much sense!!!

The only person on the Redskins that is untouchable right now is John Riggins, that should tell you all need to know about the state of affairs in Washington right now.

Interesting story from the weekend. My friends and I are out at a bar on Friday watching the basketball games, when one of my friends decides to do his usual and hit on any cute waitress that walks by. He eventually strikes up a conversation with one of them eventually centering around his love affair with Nicolas Cage. He thinks Nicolas Cage is one the best actors of our generation, and they talk about this for a couple of minutes. The waitress then chimes in with this beauty, "...oh yeah, he played Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon...". My friend was immediately put off by this, and let her know his thoughts. Fast forward about an hour later we are getting ready to walk out the door, when my friend finds the waitress again and proceeds to tell her, "...You were right Nicolas Cage did play Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon..." to which she responded, "...see, I told you...". WOW, smart girl. Once again proves my theory, the general public is generally stupid.