Jay Cutler’s Injury, Face, Sparks Ubiquitous Opining
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On day 1.5 of kneegate, the general consensus appears to suggest that nobody is questioning Jay Cutler’s toughness, a sentiment which has been the universal battle cry and/or precursor used by those who have gone on to predictably criticize Jay Cutler nonetheless.
We know Jay Cutler persisted throughout the NFL season (and his career in Chicago) despite playing behind a shitty offensive line and taking a barrage of sacks on a week to week basis. We know he is the poster boy for diabetes in the NFL. We know he managed to play an entire season plus with the implosion-prone mass of vociferousness that is Brandon Marshall.
We know this.
But Jay Cutler’s ambiguous health concerns, which nobody seems to want to admit were appropriately attended to in accordance with the NFL’s developing player safety protocal, were universally and insensitively castigated by onlookers simply because they happened to Jay Cutler. Jay Cutler, who was doing everything but running wind sprints (and helping his anonymous backups) on the sideline, moped his way to the unenviable and obligatory embrace of the scathing headline tweet.
We didn’t think much of the situation until the 12th sideline shot of post-MCL Jay Cutler, commensurate with Joe Buck’s overtly insinuative 18th mention of the fact that the Bears were not certain when Cutler became injured. But as the story developed, it became obvious that this would surely become a tasty anecdote to Aaron Rodgers supplanting Brett Favre as the guy in Green Bay.
News of Cutler’s injury being a sprained MCL, as opposed to the MRI disclosing that Cutler’s WHOLE FUCKING LEG WAS ABOUT TO FALL OFF, did Cutler’s suddenly questionable character and toughness few favors despite such a critical X-Ray being somewhat of a mild victory for Cutler. It helps that the jersey burning bandwagon already seems to have subsided to some degree as the Steelers/Packers Super Bowl hype machine prepares to replace it.
The inclinations of Jay Cutler having to deal with this stigma for the rest of his career borderline on lunacy. Ben Roethlisberger has shown us that the fickle brethren of NFL analysts are willing to quickly change their tune on the perception of any athlete once you start winning, regardless of the accuracy or reasonableness of the flaky opinion.
So, yeah, Cutler’s probably gonna be saddled with this thing forever.
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Tags: 2011, Aaron Rodgers, Brett Favre, Chicago Bears, Injury, Jay Cutler MCL, NFC Championship, NFL, Playoffs, Super Bowl XLV, Twitter
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