Soap Box Time part IV

I'm one of the many who is throwing Jay Cutler under the bus. Football has never been a game for people who lack toughness. A sprained MCL is not a real injury in football. Things that would have kept me out of the NFC Championship game: 1.) Death 2.) Severed limb. That sums it up. Cutler could walk and that means he was a better option for his team of 52 others depending on him than Todd Collins. The only thing keeping this from being a total failure is a 3rd string quarterback out of Colorado State, who before presented the NFL with near Pro Bowl quality QB ALEX VAN PELT, playing like someone who will be starting somewhere next year. Caleb Hanie was the only reason the game was close. My big argument is that Jay Cutler was BY FAR a better option with a sprained MCL than Collins or Hanie. Hanie's play was a fucking miracle allowed to happen by Green Bay playing prevent defense, something that team simply can't do for shit.
Something I hate for saying, but must to be honest, is I absolutely hated that Phillip Rivers played with a torn ACL with a 100% healthy Billy Volek behind him. There is a difference between a torn ACL, and a sprained MCL. There's a difference between Billy Volek and Todd Collins. There clearly is a difference between Phillip Rivers and Jay Cutler. Cutler HAD to try to play. Give his teammates a chance to rally around him, motivate them, or just see how bad it really is. You play hurt all the time. Football is being in a constant state of injury. Stingers, concussions, broken bones, sprains, tears, bruises of all kinds, are all facts of life. I played through half a game with a concussion. It was a high school game meaning very little in the grand scheme of things, but I accepted it as a job I had to play. You owe it to everyone around you. Was I still a better option than anyone else behind me? Probably. Was it dangerous, absolutely. Could I honestly say I'd have done anything different? Nope.
I said while it was happening that if I were a Bears fan I wouldn't only want Culter dead, I would want his family dead. I would be furious. I commend his teammates for sticking by him, but they shouldn't have to defend the man in charge of leading the offense and team. It's heaping on Cutler because by a lot of accounts he's a "little bitch" and other things basically meaning fucking douche bag. His teammates defend him, but his former ones condemn him. He played all year despite being used as a tackling dummy in the beginning of the year. Where did all his grit go when things actually mattered? How many more times does he plan on being in the NFC Championship game? He just showed no heart in a game where he could have risen above all the criticisms and condemnations. To absolve himself and earn respect from everyone watching. It just didn't seem like he gave a fuck, a common theme when the stones start getting thrown at him.
Watching him with those ear buds in infuriated me. I'm not a Bears fan, but I'd tell you that if I were I'd fight Jay Cutler wherever I found him. His utter lack of leadership is astounding. Cheer on your team, do something productive. Don't look like a fucking stoner while everything your team worked for falls apart.
I'm watching Schiavone play the #1 ranked woman in the world hours after playing a match lasting over 5 hours versus Svetlana Kuznetsova. I'm sure everything feels like it's made out of rubber, but heavier than steel. Instead of bowing out she's up 5-3 serving for the first set. Correction, she just won the first set. You suck it up and do your fucking job. It's why some people stay home sick with a cold and others show up with a migraine. I really see this looming over Cutler for quite some time because I know I could never look at him the same way if he were on my team.
Bottom cliche line: Would you want Jay Cutler in your fox hole?