Jay-C - dear, or departed? Leave him

Jay-C - dear, or departed? Leave him
March 12
Denver Post columnsit Mark Kiszla

"Get out of Denver, baby. Put quarterback Jay Cutler on notice he has thrown his last tantrum and final touchdown pass for the Broncos. Trade him. Rather than trying to slap Band-Aids on egos wounded in a stupid testosterone match between new Broncos coach Josh McDaniels and Cutler, it would be better for all concerned to call the whole thing off, before a disgruntled Jay-C begins heaving spitwads at little General McD from the back of a team meeting room. You gotta keep 'em separated, preferably by at least 1,200 miles, or roughly the distance between Denver and Detroit. If McDaniels is going to maintain any authority on the Broncos practice field, the team must trade Cutler. Is there really any other choice? Before he was on the job long enough to put a scratch in his desk, McDaniels shattered the trust of Cutler with loose trade talk, fracturing the relationship with his most talented player. Dumb, dumb, dumb. But know what is far more troublesome? McDaniels suddenly finds himself between a rock-headed, stubborn QB and a hard place. If the 32-year-old Denver coach capitulates now to Cutler's paint-it-black mood swings, then McDaniels seems doomed to get pushed every time it comes to shove with a strong personality in a Denver uniform. As hard as breaking up can be, it is time for Cutler to pack up his hurt feelings and Pro Bowl arm, take his bad haircut and go find a new home in Detroit, Tampa Bay or whatever NFL city can put a smile back on his pouty lips. Listen, Jay-C, we all feel your pain. Most of us can only imagine how tough it must be living with the mental strain endured by a 25-year-old millionaire whose money cannot buy the loyalty of a franchise that let it slip Matt Cassel might be a better fit at quarterback, especially in these harsh economic times. Franchise owner Pat Bowlen should have ordered his childish quarterback and immature coach to Dove Valley offices, figuratively bent

both brats over a knee and given them a verbal spanking, telling Cutler and McDaniels this middle-school, he-started-it nonsense had to stop. Instead, the Broncos tried to patch the rift with a conference call, with team officials speaking from Colorado and Cutler listening to their yada, yada, yada from Nashville. You cannot kiss and make up from long distance. How are Cutler and McDaniels going to get on the same page when the Broncos cannot even get them in the same city? While McDaniels might know football, there have been enough missteps during the first 100 days of his administration, whether it was personnel honchos Jim and Jeff Goodman being kicked clumsily to the curb or signing a long-snapper from New England the Broncos didn't really need, that you have to wonder if this team is now closer to being Patriots West or Raiders East. Rather than pretending to respect McDaniels, it would be wiser for Cutler to instruct agent Bus Cook to quietly work behind the scenes with the Broncos on an exit strategy. Covered in the scum of this soap ope"
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