Tweeters sound off on Cutler
If you’ve seen Bears captain Olin Kreutz go after an opponent for cheap-shotting a teammate, then you can picture the postgame locker-room scene when Kreutz heard some NFL players utilized Twitter to rip Jay Cutler after he left Sunday’s NFC title game with a knee injury.
“It’s just unfair. It’s stupid,” Kreutz grumped, large arms folded in front of his chest. “It’s people being stupid. Jay is as tough as they come.
“For him to come back out (in the second half) with what he has is amazing to me.”
Cutler, who apparently tore a ligament in his left knee late in the second quarter, played the first series of the third quarter before hanging it up.
“I got hit on the outside of my leg,” Cutler said. “I took a shot. I knew that it was better that I didn’t (continue). I know my knee, I know my body.”
But with no unmistakable visual evidence of how Cutler suffered his injury — and no revealing diagnosis offered by the Bears’ medical staff to FOX’ s broadcast team — NFL players and personalities started to shred Cutler via Twitter.
Jacksonville running back Maurice Jones-Drew offered this insight:
“All I’m saying is that he can finish the game on a hurt knee ... I played the whole season on one...”
Philadelphia cornerback Asante Samuel, who coincidentally was replaced on the Pro Bowl roster Thursday due to an injury, devoted multiple tweets to Cutler’s situation.
“If he was my teammate I would be looking at him sideways.”
Shortly thereafter …
“Man shoot that (bleep) up with a needle,” Samuel typed. “He ain’t got to do much jus drop back and throw the ball.”
Soon-to-be Hall of Famer Deion Sanders was slightly more sly with his take.
“Folks i never question a players injury but i do question a players heart. Truth”
While their poor punctuation might offend some people, Bears middle linebacker Brian Urlacher was peeved by the poor positioning of Cutler’s critics.
“Where’s (Jones-Drew) at right now?” Urlacher said. “It’s easy to talk (bleep) about someone when they’re sitting on their couch watching your game. That’s what I’m saying, you know?
“I don’t understand that. I don’t get it. Let them sprain their MCL or do whatever (Cutler) did to his knee and then get back into the game, that they can do that. See how well they run the ball...it’s easy to write that stuff on the Internet.”
Early in Cutler’s tenure with the Bears, Urlacher supposedly questioned his new QB’s toughness. That wasn’t the case Sunday.
“He’s a tough son of a (gun),” Urlacher said. “(Heck) yeah he is. He practices every day. You see the hits he’s taken in his career. He gets up, he doesn’t bitch, he doesn’t complain. He just goes out there and competes and tries to win the game.”