Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Best American Sports Player Got Injury brings Cutler



The NFL can have such a simple cruelty. Jay Cutler was having his best moment, chipping away at the embarrassment of last season’s NFC Championship Game. It was a play that showed how invested he has become in the team. It also might have been the play that got him hurt.

What was happening to Cutler? He took charge after that. Behind the scenes, he took on Martz and his whacked-out play-calling. Cutler found a way to use his stand-off-ishness to start to build something important. He turned surliness into toughness.That week, he, and presumably Coach Lovie Smith, talked with Martz. It was an intervention. Cutler took control over the play-calling.

Cutler was going to have to stand on his own. And the Bears’ coaches and front office went about pitching him at every turn, on every interview, as the team’s new leader. Greg Couch has been a national columnist at AOL Fanhouse and The Sporting News and an award-winning columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times. He was featured twice in "Best American Sports Writing" and was recognized this year by the US Tennis Writers ... Injury brings Cutler to screeching halt.


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