NFL 2010 Conference Championships

[thrill]

edit .. and Kukoc was a damn fine basketball player too. But you could have plugged in any number of similiar players and they still would have won. That's not a knock on Kukoc/McMahon.

Much better. I was not ok with you side-swiping Euro Magic.

[lukethedrifter]

Wilbon on Cutler:

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/c ... id=6052280

Barkley on Cutler:

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2 ... lers-honor

[fanforever]

A lineman who played more than a dozen years and won multiple Super Bowls told me after the game that he was stunned Cutler was standing on the sideline, not on crutches, receiving no treatment while his team played on. And, the player said, what made it worse was that Cutler didn't appear to be counseling his backup, Todd Collins, or Hanie. And this all came on the heels of Mike Martz telling ESPNChicago.com's Jon Greenberg that criticism of Cutler's fundamentals, specifically his footwork, is "fair... You can't go through a lifetime with those kinds of habits and fix them in one season." Martz revealed that Cutler is still doing footwork drills twice a week, every week, and said the quarterback is working "diligently" and that "he'll get there."

But we don't hear those Peyton Manning-like stories about Cutler, how he comes early to practice and stays late and works systematically and demonically at getting better. What we hear, even from teammates in both Denver and Chicago, is that Cutler is an arrogant, pouting player who rates himself quite highly. It's a characterization that is believed totally throughout the league, through almost any pro football circle you wander into. And because it's believed wholly that Cutler is a guy with a big arm, an overrated sense of himself and little if any heart, precious few people in Cutler's own fraternity had any sympathy for him during the game.

It will be interesting, from what we know of Cutler, to see if he even notices.

A former quarterback who wears a Super Bowl ring, who has studied Cutler's entire career in the NFL, told me before he left the field Sunday, "The sad thing is that if he embraced working on the monotonous details of quarterbacking he could be great."

[stlouie_lipp]

And, the player said, what made it worse was that Cutler didn't appear to be counseling his backup, Todd Collins, or Hanie.

This is the kind of [expletive] that really pisses me off about the whole thing. The facts are that he was helping Hanie. But why the those pesky facts get in the way of what Fox showed in three second cut-aways?