tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6875716674621937836.post4301168669511911496..comments2023-11-30T00:41:47.585-08:00Comments on Shreds: Off My Chest...Ginohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09606046924332159076noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6875716674621937836.post-69444433206178633342011-01-25T10:12:30.612-08:002011-01-25T10:12:30.612-08:00RW is 100% correct on this.RW is 100% correct on this.Mr. Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6875716674621937836.post-39000460027324303092011-01-25T08:35:19.851-08:002011-01-25T08:35:19.851-08:00I agree that he's been unfairly criticized. I...I agree that he's been unfairly criticized. I don't much like Jay Cutler, but that isn't the point. He's a dangerous quarterback who is plenty tough and he was instrumental in getting his team to the conference championship game. Lost in all of this is that Matt Ryan and Michael Vick didn't exactly have great games either. Give the guy a break.W.B. Picklesworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03187309512838841997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6875716674621937836.post-61533249082679416002011-01-25T08:17:10.400-08:002011-01-25T08:17:10.400-08:00thanks for the lesson, RW.
maybe cutler needs to ...thanks for the lesson, RW.<br /><br />maybe cutler needs to be pulled aside and have a few things explained to him, for the money if nothing else.<br />i hear he visits the sick kids pretty regular, but wont do it when reporters are there.Ginohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09606046924332159076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6875716674621937836.post-46153623846566733442011-01-25T06:31:33.340-08:002011-01-25T06:31:33.340-08:00that should read "Jay Cutler is AS MUCH a vic...that should read "Jay Cutler is AS MUCH a victim of his own intransigence as much as the local neurosis." I'm an ass munch.RWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14416316296228157208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6875716674621937836.post-67285309519838250102011-01-25T06:29:33.574-08:002011-01-25T06:29:33.574-08:00I am strategically staying apart from this fray. I...I am strategically staying apart from this fray. In the first place there wasn't one person with half a brain who would have said, when the season started, that the Bears would be in the NFC Championship game just 8 points from the Super Bowl by season's end. People said, in August, they'd be happy to see their team get to 8-8. <br /><br />In the second place this is all about perception and PR. In Chicago, and I've lived here a long long time now, the fans really want to like you. they want to like you and feel they know you and if you play along you could make tons of money around here even after your career is over. I can point to a slew of ex-Chicago sports guys from all sports who somehow keep making local commercials and doing local "analysis" on radio and local TV here beyond any actual use for their presence.<br /><br />But they played it smart. they got in the fans' corner. they did the "lunch-bucket working class city with blah blah shoulders" crap and played it to the hilt and everybody just WUVS that. The problem is that Cutler is more like RW here than Ernie Banks; meaning he doesn't give a shit if you like him or not. So he's seen as a cold fish, someone who doesn't play along, somebody who is just not very friendly. Hence nobody has been able to figure him out. He has no PR protection because he doesn't play along with the nicey-nicey oh lookit our local hero bullshit that runs rampant in this town.<br /><br />Don't get me wrong, I love my city and would rather live here than anywhere else, but that doesn't mean it isn't chock full of dubious morons who feel it important to project their goofy foibles onto a quarterback.<br /><br />Jay Cutler is more a victim of his own intransigence as much as the local neurosis.RWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14416316296228157208noreply@blogger.com